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300. Bonasa umbellus (Linn.) Ruffed grouse. 



Resident ; common in woodlands. It is making a good fight 

 against extermination and will succeed if the laws are enforced. Nest 

 on the ground at the foot of a stump or tree. April 15 — May 10. 

 Have found fresh eggs on June 5, the first nest probably having been 

 destroyed ; eggs, 6-14. 



300a. Bonasa umbellus togata (Linn.) Canadian ruffed grouse. 

 Resident ; occasionally met with in Erie County. Mr. L. A. 

 Fuertes reports it from Ithaca, where it is sometimes found in the 

 markets. Rochester, Nov. 29, 1900, a typical bird of their race was 

 killed by Mr. A. E. Babcock. 



Family PHASIANIDAE. Pheasants, etc. 

 310a. Meleagris gallopavo fera (Vieill.) Wild turkey. 



Formerly resident ; long since exterminated. DeKay in his 

 zoology of the state, 1846, reports it as still found in Allegany and 

 Cattaraugus counties. 



Phasianus torquatus Gmel. Mongolian pheasant. 



This bird has been introduced with considerable success in 

 western New York, especially in the Genesee valley and in the warmer 

 counties which constitute the northern belt of the region. This 

 pheasant survives the cold and snowy winters and is known to breed 

 in several localities. 



Order COLUMBAE. Pigeons. 



Family COLUMBIDAE. Pigeotis. 



315. Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.) Passenger pigeon. 



Formerly a transient in immense numbers, and an irregular 

 summer resident. Now rare or accidental. A young bird three- 

 fourths grown was taken by the writer at Springville, July 21, 1882 ; 

 a few were seen in Ithaca, spring of 1892 — L. A. Fuertes ; a flock in 

 Lewis County, May 22, 1896 — Auk 14, 88. An adult male killed, 

 Canandaigua, Sept. 14, 1898 — A. P. Wilbur. 



The last great pigeon nesting in western New York was in 1868 

 near Ceres, about fifteen miles south of Olean, on Bell's Run. Mr. Fred 

 R. Eaton of Olean, has furnished the following particulars; the height 

 of the nesting season was reached about the tenth of May. The 



