86 THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



The range of this Grouse includes the plains and prairies 

 east of the Rocky Mountains eastward to Wisconsin and Illinois, 

 and from Manitoba southward to New Mexico. 



FAMILY PHASIANID^E: PHEASANTS AND WILD TURKEYS. 

 Genus MELEAGrEJS Linnaeus, 1758. 



Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris (Vieillot). Wild Turkey. 



Meleagris silvestris VIEILLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., IX, 1817, 447. 

 Meleagris gallopavo sylvestris ALLEN, Auk, XIX, 1902, 420. 

 Meleagris gallopavo LINNAEUS, of previous writers on the birds of this 



region. 

 Meleagris gallopavo var. americana (BART.) COUES, of some authors. 



Mr. E. W. Nelson states* that this species was formerly plen- 

 tiful within our limits.. As early as 1853-1854^ Mr. Robert Ken- 

 nicott made a similar statement. It is now fairly common in the 

 densely wooded districts of the southern portion of Illinois. 



Once this species was found in the northeastern United States 

 but now in those regions it is rare. Otherwise its range may be 

 given as the eastern United States. 



ORDER COLUMB^E: PIGEONS. 



FAMILY COLUMBIDJE: PIGEONS. 

 Genus ECTOPISTES Swainson, 1827. 



Ectopistes migratorius (Linn.). Passenger Pigeon. 



Columba migratoria LINNJEUS, S. N., ed. 12, I, 1766, 285. 

 Ectopistes migratoria SWAINSON, Zool. Journ., Ill, 1827, 362. 

 Popular synonyms: WILD PIGEON. WOOD PIGEON. 



This species was many years ago an abundant resident within 

 our limits, but now it is exceedingly rare if it occurs at all. I 

 have a fine male of this species which was shot by Mr. Charles 

 S. Raddin at Rogers Park in July, 1882. December 10, 1890, I 

 received four of these pigeons, in the flesh, from Waukegan, Illi- 

 nois, at which locality it was claimed they were shot. Three of 

 these specimens were males and one a female. A pair of these is 

 now in the collection of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. In 

 the fall of 1891 I shot a pair at Lake Forest, Illinois. These birds 

 were mounted and are now in the collection of the Chicago Nor- 

 mal School. 



Birds of Northeastern Illinois. Bull, of the Essex Institute, Vol. VIII, 1876, 121. 

 tTrans. Illinois State Agri. Society, Vol. I, 1853-1854, 586. 



