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FAMILY PHASIANID^E. PHEASANTS, ETC. 



SUBFAMILY MELEAGRINJ3 TURKEYS. 

 GKNUS MELEAGRIS LINN^US. 



'113. Meleagris gallopavo Linn. WILD TURKEY. 



Resident. Breeds. Formerly common throughout the State, but now extinct in 

 most places. It is still probably found in the following counties : Knox (Balmer), 

 Monroe (Evermann), Grant (Davis), Dekalb (McBride) and Jefferson (Bain); 

 possibly others. In 1882 Mr. Ridgway reported them an common in Knox County 

 (Bull. Nuttall Orn. Club, January, 1882, p. 21). In 1879 they were reported as 

 "occasionally seen in Marion County" (Brayton). None have been seen in the 

 Whitewater Valley for perhaps eleven years, but I am informed they have been 

 killed in Ripley County within the past few years, and it is possible some are to be 

 found there even yet. Mr. H. F. Bain informs me of the capture of one from a 

 flock of seven near Deputy, Jefferson County, December 25, 1889. The old farm- 

 ers love to tell of turkey hunts and of their captures of turkeys in traps. These 

 traps were log pens, with a passage-way under one side to admit the turkeys. 

 They were induced to enter the pen by following a train of shelled corn, and 

 when within the pen it is said they would look up and try to get out of the top of 

 the pen and never look down to see where they came in. 



ORDER COLUMB^. PIGEONS. 

 FAMILY COLUMBID^E. PIGEONS. 



GENUS ECTOPISTES SWAINSON. 



Passenger Pigeon. 



'M14. Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). PASSENGER PIGEON ; WILD PIGEON. 



Migrant; formerly very abundant but now rare; also rare resident. Have 

 found 'them frozen to death in severe weather in the winter. Occasionally breeds 

 here, as it does throughout the State. They are becoming rarer every year. It is 



