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Common. Colaptes auratus — Golden-winged wood- 

 pecker, hig-hholer, flicker, yarup. Common. 



Family Strigid^ — Owls — Long-eared Owl — Asio 

 otus, and the screech owl — Scops asio are common; the 

 great gray owl — Strix cinera and the great snowy owl 

 — Nyctea scandiaca are sometimes seen in winter. 



Family Falconidae — Falcons, hawks — The sharp- 

 shinned hawk — accipiter fuscus and chicken hawk — 

 Accipiter cooperi, hen hawk or red-tailed buzzard — 

 Buteo borealis — the sparrow hawk or rusty crowned 

 falcon — Falco sparverius are common, and the ball 

 eagle — Halietus leucocephalus is sometimes seen, but 

 does not make this region his home. 



Family Cathertidae Buzzards — Turkey buzzards — 

 Cathartes aura. 



Family Columbidas — Pigeons — Wild Pigeon — Ec- 

 topistes macrura, never lived here, but visited the 

 country in great numbers at times; is not so frequently 

 seen as formerly. 



The Mourning Dove — Zenaedura Carolensis — is 

 not rare. 



Family Meleagrid^ — Turkeys — The wild turkey 

 — Meleagris gallopavo once common is extinct. Capi- 

 doniacupido, prairie chicken, or pinnated grouse is fre- 

 quently seen; the ruffled g-rouse or partridge — bonassa 

 umbellus — is met with, the latter but seldom. 



Family Perdicidae Quails — Quail, bob white — Ortyx 

 Virginianus, it seems at present to be on the increase. 



Family Charadriidse — Plovers, none live here, 

 ^gialitis vociferus, the Kildeer, is often seen about 

 wet places in the fall. 



Family Scolopacidae— Woodcocks, etc. American 

 woodcock — Philohela minor found in some places; sand- 

 pipers — Tringa; godwits — Simosa; tattlers — Tolanus 

 are sometimes seen in wet places about ponds. 



