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servative estimate of the luunber of prairie cliicliens now in Indiana is 

 100,000. Tlie counties about the Kanlcakee basin lioUl the nitijority of 

 the game birds. Tliere are aii])r(ixiinately Hve hnndred birds in Ivosciusko 

 County, one thousand in Fult'in County and between twelve tliousand and 

 fifteen thousand in Wliite Cimr.ty. Otlier counties mentioned as Iiaving 

 tliese birds in tlieni are I'ulasl^i, Jasper an<l Starlce. 

 M'ihl Tarlciii. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris (Vieill.). 



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

 on the Wabash Iliver in the southern part of this county in 1!)(I0. 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, clnims 

 that he has not seen any Wild Turkeys since 1004. (E. J. Chaiisler). 



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

 ent contains these words: "Tliere is a man n(^w living in the city (Indiana- 

 polis) who has shftt wild turkeys between Wasliington and Xorth streets. 

 The liev. J. C. Fletcher, son of Calvin, said that one day in 1884, when 

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

 in wliat is now Military Park. In early times it was n t un MMnmoii 

 for a hunter to kill fifteen or twenty in a day. and as late as 1.S41 one was 

 captured in the Circle." 

 t<ii<nr/t(i],'c: >S'»o/r BiinHn<i. I'lectr(i]ihen.ix nivalis nivalis (Lii!n.). 



Indianapolis. Ind., December 28, 1901. .Miss Fh^reuce Howe, who re- 

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

 around here. Tliere was a flock of abmit one hundred. The day was very 

 snowy and the wind blowing. I stayed watching them for an hour or 

 more and then they flew away." 

 Doiibh'-crested Coniiorant. Phalacrocorax anritus auritus (Swaim^. ). 



A bird of tliis species was taken at Wawaka, Ind., October 24, 1012, 

 according to INIr. O. A. Penahan, who has tlie skin in his possession. 

 Plicated Woodpecker. Phkeotomus pileatus pileatus (Linn.). 



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

 Indiana, May 5, 1911. 

 Passenger Pujeon. Ectoplstes migratorius (IJnn.). 



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

 it as tlie Wild I'igeon of our childhood. Our parents told of the wonderful 

 flights tliey had seen ; of the enormous numlier which no one could count 

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

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



