. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. PINNATED AND SAGE GROUSE 247 until after the horse had been stolen. A species destroyed is rarely regained. To-day, the Prairie-Chicken is to be numbered with the buffalo and passenger-pigeon. It is so nearly extinct that only a few flocks remain, the most of which are in Kansas and Nebraska. If hunting them with dogs continues, five years hence the species will probably be cjuite extinct. Even as late as 1874, many birds were killed every winter by flying against the teleg
. The American natural history; a foundation of useful knowledge of the higher animals of North America. Natural history. PINNATED AND SAGE GROUSE 247 until after the horse had been stolen. A species destroyed is rarely regained. To-day, the Prairie-Chicken is to be numbered with the buffalo and passenger-pigeon. It is so nearly extinct that only a few flocks remain, the most of which are in Kansas and Nebraska. If hunting them with dogs continues, five years hence the species will probably be cjuite extinct. Even as late as 1874, many birds were killed every winter by flying against the telegraph wires along the railways. The Prairie Sharp-Tailed Grouse^ inhabits the Great Plains, from the states bordering the Mississippi to the Rocky Mountains. It is the plains counterpart of the pinnated grouse, and like it, is rapidly disappearing before the set-. SAGE-GHOUSB. It is useless to describe this bird. The chances are that no reader of this book ever will see one outside of a museum, or a large zoological garden.' The great flocks of from one to three hundred that from 1860 to were seen in winter in the Iowa cornfields, are gone forever. ' During the first four years of its existence, the N. Y. Zoological Park was able to secure only four living specimens. tlements that are fast filling up its home. The neck of the male lacks the side tuft of long, pointed feathers and the naked air-sac so con- spicuous on the male pinnated grouse. To-day, this bird is seldom seen in the open sage-brush plains and bad lands of Montana and Wyoming, but is occasionally found in or ^ Ped-i-ce-ce'tes -phaa-i-an-eVlus cam-pes'tris. Av- erage length, about 17 Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hornaday, William Temple, 1854-1937. New York, C. Scribner's Sons
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