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servative estimate of the nuiiiber of prairie cliickens now hi Indhma is 

 100.000. The counties about the Kanlvakee basin hohl the iiia.jorit.v of 

 (lie .t;anie liirds. There an' aiqircxiniately five liniidreii liirds in KoscinslvO 

 County, one thousand in Fulton County and between twelve tliousand and 

 fifteen thousand in White County. Otiier counties mentioned as havini; 

 tliese birds in them are Pulaslvi, Jasper and Starke. 

 Wihl Titrkcij. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieill.). 



Knox County. Seen by Mr. Crow on a liill near the government dam 

 on tlie Wabash River in tlie southern part of tliis county in 1009. The bird 

 is probably extinct or nearly so. Mr. Mathias Pickel, of tlie extreme south 

 ern part of this county, on the Wabash, and a very wild locality, claims 

 that he has not seen any Wild Turkeys since 1904. (PI J. Chanslerj. 



The Indianapolis News, October IS, 1012, in an answer to a correspond- 

 ent contains tliese words: '"There is a man now living in the city ( Indiana- 

 polis) who has sliot wild turkeys between Washington and Nortli streets. 

 The Rev. J. C Fletcher, son of Calvin, said that one day in 1834, when 

 walking with his father, he saw a tiock of wild turkeys light in a tree 

 in what is now Military Park. In early times it was n it un-ommon 

 for a hunter to kill fifteen or twenty in a day. and as late as 1841 one was 

 captured in tlie Circle." 

 Snoirfldlic: tSiiotr BunHnfj. Plectroplienax nivalis iiiA'alis (Liini.). 



Indianapolis, Ind., December 23, 1901. ISIiss Florence Howe, who re- 

 ported them says: "Tliis is the only time I have seen the Snowtlakes 

 around here. There was a flock of about one liundred. The day was very 

 snowy and the wintl blowing. I stayed w'a telling tliem for an hour or 

 more and tlien they flew^ away." 

 Dotthlc-crestecl Cormorant. Phalacrocorax auritus auritus (Swaiins. ). 



A bird of this species was taken at Wawaka, Ind., October 24, 1912, 

 according to Mr. O. A. Renahan, who has tiie skin in his possession. 

 Pileated Woodpecker. Phkeotonius plleatus i)ileatus (Linn.). 



Mr. Philip Baker reports seeing one near Helmsburg, Brown County, 

 Indiana. May 5, 1911. 

 Passenger Pigeon. Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). 



The Passenger Pigeon is probably now extinct. Many of us remember 

 it as the Wild Pigeon of our childhood. Our parents told of the wonderful 

 flights they had seen ; of tlie enormous number wliicli no one could count 

 or approximately estimate; of roosts covering many square miles of wood- 

 land when the birds settled upon the trees in such numbers that great 



