CONTENTS. 



Introduction: — 



America, A Country of Game Birds, ....... 



Abundance of Game found by Explorers and Colonists, .... 



Former Abundance of Game Birds in the West and South, 



The Decrease of Edible Birds, ........ 



PART I. 



A History of the Birds now hunted for Food or Sport in Massachu- 

 setts AND Adjacent States: — 

 Grebes, 

 Loons, 

 Mergansers, 

 River Ducks, 

 Bay and Sea Ducks, 

 Geese, 

 Swans, 



Rails, Crakes, Gallinules and Coots 

 Phalaropes, 

 Avocets and Stilts, 

 Snipes, Sandpipers, etc.. 

 Plovers, 

 Turnstones, 

 Oyster-catchers, 

 Bob-whites, 

 Grouse, 

 Pigeons and Doves, 



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PART II. 



A History of the Game Birds and Other Birds hunted for Food or 

 Sport which have been driven out of Massachusetts and 

 Adjacent States, or exterminated since the Settlement 

 OF THE Country: — 



Extinct Species, ........... 399 



Great Auk, . 

 Labrador Duck, 

 Eskimo Curlew, 

 Passenger Pigeon, 

 Extirpated Species, 

 Trumpeter Swan, 

 Whooping Crane, 

 Sandhill Crane, 

 Wild Turkey, 



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