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 306. Tympanuchus cupido ( Linn . ) . Heath Hen. 



Turnbull, in writing of this species, says that 

 a few still survived: in Monroe and Northampton Counties 

 in 1869 (Stone's Birds of Eastern Pennsylvania and New 

 Jersey). It apparently became extinct in the state as well 

 as in New Jersey about 1870. 



310a. Meleagris gallopavo silvestris Vielll . Wild Turkey. 

 Despite the fact of its growing scarcity every- 

 where, the Wild Turkey still £}ings on in the wild, 

 mountainous districts of Pennsylvania, and in the year 

 1912, according to the statistics of the Game Commission, 

 nearly a thousand Wild Turkeys were killed within the 

 limits of Pennsylvania. In Monroe and Pike, as well as in 

 the the whole northern tier of counties, the Wild Turkey 

 seems to be extinct, as well as thru the southeastern and 

 southwestern portions of the state. In Pulton, Bedford, 

 Somerset, Franklin, Adams, and Perry Counties, they still 

 breed regularly, and as far north as Lycoming County, where 

 a nest was found by Charles Welshans in 1912 near Jersey 

 Shore. In portions of Center and Hundington Counties, I 

 have found the Wild Turkey to be a regular and tolerably 

 common permanent resident, tho rarely seen. Altho I have 

 never found the nest, they breed regularly on the 

 mountains in Center County and near Buffalo Run in Patton 



