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A GENTLEMAN, wliile gunning in a eleann^ontlie easrem 
outskirts of our borough, flushed what he supposed was a 
wounded hawk, and fired and killed it. Finding it was not 
a hawk, he brought it to Mr. Lucius D. Price, a taxider- 
mist, who pronounced the bird a male prairie chicken. How 
such a stranger ever found its way to West Chester, is a 
mystery. Three or four years ago several pairs were lib- 
erated in Delaware County, but were never seen or heard 
of afterward. As Delaware County adjoins our county on 
the south and east, it is just possible that this bird was the 
last of those liberated, and had wandered into this section. 
On examining its body several partially healed wounds 
were found. Some other sportsman had evidently had a 
shot at it. Lbnapb. 
West Chester, Pa. 
