The exact page text, read by your browser's voice.
Chapman (1880), pp. 341–343
Chapman's bird chapter is a disappearance ledger written before the disappearances finished. The wild turkey "has almost entirely disappeared," though "in an early day they were in abundance." The prairie chicken stands under sentence: "if not carefully protected, must ere long follow the wild turkey, never to return." The passenger pigeon — his "wild pigeons" — still made its semi-annual visits "but not in such vast numbers as years ago," and Chapman reprints Audubon's 1813 Ohio flight account as the measure of what "vast" had meant. The bald eagle was "once quite common, now scarce"; the golden eagle "always rare but now no longer seen." The swimmers "have almost disappeared," and of the waders he writes the drainage sentence this section returns to below. The list prints whole because it is the only first-hand bird baseline the county has: every species judgement in the articles after this one is measured from these pages.