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Regarding the present status and the future of this bird, I 

 have been greatly disturbed in mind. When a unique and 

 zoologically important species becomes reduced in its geo- 

 graphic range to a small section of a single state, it seems to 



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me quite time for alarm. For some time I have counted this 

 bird as one of those threatened with early extermination, and 

 as I think with good reason. In view of the swift calamities 

 that now seem able to fall on species like thunderbolts out of 

 clear skies, and to wipe them off the earth even before we know 

 that such a fate is impending, no species of seven-county dis- 

 tribution is safe. Any species that is limited to a few counties 



