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20. Tympanuchus americanus. Prairie Hen.— It is marked as 
having been taken at Toronto in ‘Hand Book of Toronto,’ 1858, 54, with 
the remark: “ This is the Heath Hen of our Legislative Act for the preserva- 
tion of game.” Mcllwraith records the taking of one at Hamilton in May, 
1886,’^ but it seems unlikely that this was a native bird as they were probably 
extinct by that date in Ontario, though imported birds may have been on 
some game preserve; but there is no probability that the bird ever came 
as far east as Lake Ontario. ® Birds of Ontario, 1886, 128. 
