Our Vanishing Wild Life Part 8

NORTH CAROLINA:

Ivory-billed woodp.e.c.k.e.r, parrakeet, pigeon, roseate spoonbill, long-billed curlew (_Numenius america.n.u.s_), Eskimo curlew; bison, elk, gray wolf, puma, beaver.--(E.L. Ewbank, T. Gilbert Pearson, H.H. and C.S. Brimley.)

NORTH DAKOTA:

Whooping crane, long-billed curlew, Hudsonian G.o.dwit, pa.s.senger pigeon; bison, elk, mule deer, mountain sheep.--(W.B. Bell and Alfred Eastgate.)

OHIO:

Pigeon, wild turkey, pinnated grouse, northern pileated woodp.e.c.k.e.r, parrakeet; white-tailed deer, bison, elk, black bear, puma, gray wolf, beaver, otter, puma, lynx.

OKLAHOMA:

Records for birds insufficient. Mammals: bison, elk, antelope, mule deer, puma, black bear.

OREGON:

The only species known to have been wholly exterminated during recent times is the California condor and the bison, both of which were rare stragglers into Oregon; but a number of species are now close to extinction.

PENNSYLVANIA:

Heath hen, pigeon, parrakeet, Labrador duck; bison, elk, moose, puma, gray wolf, Canada lynx, wolverine, beaver.--(Witmer Stone, Dr. C.B.

Penrose and Arthur Chapman.)

RHODE ISLAND:

Heath hen, pa.s.senger pigeon, wild turkey, least tern, eastern willet, Eskimo curlew, marbled G.o.dwit, long-billed curlew.--(Harry S. Hathaway); puma, black bear, gray wolf, beaver, otter, wolverine.

SOUTH CAROLINA:

Ivory-billed woodp.e.c.k.e.r, Carolina parrakeet; bison, elk, puma, gray wolf.--(James H. Rice, Jr.)

SOUTH DAKOTA:

Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, pigeon, long-billed curlew; bison, elk, mule deer, mountain sheep.

TENNESSEE:

Records insufficient.

TEXAS:

Wild turkey, pa.s.senger pigeon, ivory-billed woodp.e.c.k.e.r, flamingo, roseate spoonbill, American egret, whooping crane, wood-duck; bison, elk, mountain sheep, antelope, "a small, dark deer that lived 40 years ago." (Capt. M.B. Davis.)

UTAH:

Records insufficient.

VIRGINIA:

Records insufficient.

WASHINGTON:

Very few species have become totally extinct, but a number are on the verge, and will be named in the next state schedule.

WEST VIRGINIA:

Pigeon, parrakeet; bison, elk, beaver, puma, gray wolf.

WISCONSIN:

Whooping crane, pa.s.senger pigeon, American egret, wild turkey, Carolina parrakeet; bison, moose, elk, woodland caribou, puma, wolverine.

WYOMING:

Whooping crane, trumpeter swan, wood-duck; mountain goat.

CANADA

ALBERTA:

Pa.s.senger pigeon, whooping crane; bison.

BRITISH COLUMBIA:

A. Bryan Williams reports: "Do not know of any birds having become extinct."

MANITOBA:

Pigeon; bison, antelope, gray wolf.

NEW BRUNSWICK:

Pigeon.

NOVA SCOTIA:

Labrador duck, Eskimo curlew, pa.s.senger pigeon.

ONTARIO:

Wild turkey, pigeon, Eskimo curlew.