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Genus Catharista, Vieillot. 

 *214. O. atrata (Wils.) Less. Black Vulture. Rare summer resi- 

 dent. Dr. George Lisle, of Chetopa, (a close observer,) writes that the 

 birds were quite common, breeding there fifteen or twenty years ago, but 

 now quite scarce; that he saw three of the birds in the fall of 1882, at 

 a "slaughter pen " with " Turkey Buzzards ; " that in 1858 he found a 

 nest with two eggs in an old hollow broken stump. 



Order COLUMBvE. 

 Family COLUMBIDiE.— Pigeons or Doves. 

 Genus Ectopistes, Swainson. 

 *215. E.'migratoria ( v Linn.) Sw. Passenger Pigeon — Wild Pigeon. 

 Irregular summer resident ; rare. 



Genus Zenaidura, Bonaparte. 

 *216. Z. carolinensis (Linn.) Bp. Mourning Dove. Summer resi- 

 dent; abundant; occasional winter sojourner in southern Kansas. 



Order GALLING. 



(Gattince aleotoropodes.) 

 Family MELEAGRIDJE.— Turkeys. 

 Genus Meleagris, Linnaeus. 

 *217. M. gaUopavo amerieana (Bartr.) Coues. Wild Turkey. An 

 abundant resident in the early settlement of the State, but rapidly di- 

 minishing, and will soon be exterminated. 



Family TETRAONIDJE.— Grouse. 

 Genus Bon as a, Stephens. 

 *218. B. umbettus (Linn.) Steph. Ruffed Grouse. In the early 

 settlement of the State a resident in eastern Kansas. Erroneously, but 

 generally known as "Partridges" in the Northern States, and as "Pheas- 

 ants" in the Southern States. (The timber along the streams, where 

 protected from fire, and the undergrowth from browsing and tramping 

 of cattle, offers a natural home for the birds, and they should be placed 

 there and protected.) 



Genus Cupidonia, Reichenbach. 

 • *219. O. cupido (Linn.) Baird. Pinnated Grouse — Prairie Hen. 

 Common resident in middle and eastern Kansas. 



