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Digest of Selected Material from Vol. III 
'Geological Survey of Ohio" 
Published by Nevins & Meyers, Columbus, 1852. 
(Ornithology by J. M. Wheaton) 
P. 72   B      . Originally found on the Sandusky, Ohio, Mavxee, Muskingum,

Scioto. Last one killed by one Charles Francis Duteil, a frenchman, 
at Gallipolis, in 1795. Last east of the Mississippi killed by 
Sioux Indians on Trempeleau R., Wise., in 1532. 
75   Buffalo in the east seem to have been (geologically) recent. 
SO   &     Last killed Ashtabula Co. 1838. 
444   Tvrko. Held out longest in N..ounties. Rare in Franklin County 1852.

445   Prairie Chicken.  "Rare resident in N.W. & Central Ohio. Probably

breeds." A few near Toledo and in Erie, Ottawa, Crawford, & Marion,

WTyandot, Sandusky, fairfield, Pickaway Cos. One killed near Columbus. 
447   IMfed Grouse. Still common in Hocking ills in hills of Z. Ohio. 
Very few near Columbus. Not recorded at Cincinnati. 
414   Quail.  "This well known bird is an exception to all others of
the 
order, in that it was probably absent or at least confined to but 
few localities in the State at the time of its first settlement, 
and has steadily increased in numbers as the forest baa been cleared 
awy   while others have diminished." 
Dr. Howard L. Jones says his great-grandfather settled at 
High bank prairie near Chillicothe in 1798 and resided several years 
before he heard the first   aail. Regrded it as an arrival. 
468   Woodcock. "Very common March to October." Young found at
Cleveland 
early as April 9, though usually not hatched till middle of May. 
521   01a (LOOSe. Winter in cornfields of Scioto Valley. Kertland says 
one flock visited each year a favorite locality on Olentangy River, 
so near the city that they were passed up as tame geese.