
14, Miscellaneous Species 
Map N shows the distribution of ruffed grouse, deer, and 
turkey and gives the dates on which these species were exterminated from 
various areas, 
Ruffed Grouse. It is rather puzzling why this species should have disap- 
peared from the northern counties when it still persists in the broken 
lands adjacent to the Mississippi and Illinois Rivers, 
Nelson.(877) reports the species as a common resident near 
Chicago. George W. Walke (1897] reports it rare in Boone County. Wood- 
ruff (1907) reports “still occasionally met with in Lake County, Indiana,” 
indicating its disappearance from the Chicago atea by that time. This co- 
incides with my findings, 
Ridgeway (1895) says "found throughout the state- - -becoming 
more rare southward- - -uncommon in the vicinity of Mount Carmel and 
growling less as the woods become clear.” 
Ridgeway (1874) also states that this species is resident in the 
entire state. I was unable to find anybody, however, who recollected its 
presence in the Ozark Ridge country of southern Illinois except Huff, who 
stated that it was plentiful in the Ozark Ridge but is now gone, Karraker, 
however, who has lived in the Ozark Rige all his life and is a keen hunter, 
aid not know that the species had ever occurred there, 
Nobody familiar with the present remnants of grouse could remem- 
ber any particular fluctuation in their numbers, It would appear that in 
Illinois, like Ohio, the isolated remnants of ruffed grouse are not subject 
to the periodic diseases or other causes of destruction which overtake them 
on their main range. 

