ARE PRAIRIE CHICKENS MIGRATORY BIRDS 



New York, April 11, 1913. 



My dear Major Lacey : I am anxiously awaiting your 

 reply to my question as to whether you consider the 

 prairie chicken a migratory bird. I hope you may write 

 me a strong letter that I can send to Dr. Palmer. 



I have one such from a man who lives in Manitoba and 

 who has studied and photographed the prairie chicken 

 for years past. He says the birds all leave there in the 

 fall, move south and return in the spring. 



I am trying to convince Dr. Palmer that it (the prairie 

 chicken) may be logically classed as a migratory bird 

 and he says it can not. Dr. Hornaday agrees with me 

 emphatically, and I hope you may. Yours sincerely, 



(Signed) G. 0. Shields. 

 Maj. John F. Lacey, 



Oshaloosa, Iowa. 



