. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. ^ 102 LIFE HISTOUIUS OF NORTH AMKRICAN HIRD8. ^Ic^xico, north tlinuifili western Nehriiskii, castcni Wyoniiii<jf, ciistcrn ^fontana, Minni'sotii, iind the two Dakotas, and ('.\ttMi(lin' north of our Ixmh'r into soutlicastcrn Assinihoia and soutlicrn Manitoba. Specinu-nft taken ahnig tho soiitlu'i'u portions of thesis provinces are tyi)ical /*. j)l asiaHcllits (vrnpcstris; and tliosis from niichUe Manitoba northwaril to about li titudo 52° are inter-
. Life histories of North American birds with special reference to their breeding habits and eggs [microform]. Birds; Birds; Oiseaux; Oiseaux. ^ 102 LIFE HISTOUIUS OF NORTH AMKRICAN HIRD8. ^Ic^xico, north tlinuifili western Nehriiskii, castcni Wyoniiii<jf, ciistcrn ^fontana, Minni'sotii, iind the two Dakotas, and ('.\ttMi(lin' north of our Ixmh'r into soutlicastcrn Assinihoia and soutlicrn Manitoba. Specinu-nft taken ahnig tho soiitlu'i'u portions of thesis provinces are tyi)ical /*. j)l asiaHcllits (vrnpcstris; and tliosis from niichUe Manitoba northwaril to about li titudo 52° are inter- mediate between this and /'. pliiisidiirlliis. The eastern ranj^e of this Grouse is beeoniin;; rapidly restricted. In Illinois they are very rarely found now. Col. N. S. Goss reports tlieiu as becoming rare in Kansas; and the case is the same in Wisconsin and Iowa. Mr. Denis Gale writes: "The Prairie Sliarp-tailed Grouse was quite plentiful fifteen years ajj^o on the plains about Denver, Cidorado. They are seldom met with now; tlie last I saw was in tlie winter of ISSi;. In ;), I met one of these birds far uj) in tlu^ foothills at an elevation of over H,0{)() feet. Tnlike the Prairie Hen, T/jiiijiiiiiiiiliits ai)ieriv(ini(s, })Tain and corn fields have but few attractions tor these birds; this, and the stampin' out l)y cattle of tlie whole country's surface, suj)|)lemented by the ])ot hunter's shotji'un to secure a toothsome morsel in and out of season, no doubt accounts for their present ; Mr. W. :\I. Wolfe, of Kearney, Nebraska, says: "The Prairie Sharp-tailed Grouse, /'. jilHrnuHcUns nimpcsfris, was formerly abundant in central Neljraska. Now it has retired before civilization, and the Piimated Grouse has taken its place. Cold winters, notaldy tliat of IHS,'), (h'ive it back into thiidy settled In nortliwestern Nebraska, where both species are still foimd, they not infrecjuently mingUf in winter, Itut are bitter enemies in warm we
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