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Chapman (1880), pp. 341–343
Chapman watched both species going and wrote the going down. The passenger pigeon's county record is his thinning sentence — semi-annual visits continuing, "but not in such vast numbers as years ago" — set against the Audubon flight account he reprinted; the species' national end is general record, but its local record is exactly that sentence and no township flock, roost, or hunt is named in any carrier reached. The prairie chicken's record is his conditional sentence: unprotected, it "must ere long follow the wild turkey, never to return" — and unlike the turkey, it did not return to this county; no restoration arc for it exists in the state record read, and no later county carrier names it as present. The two print together because Chapman put them in one chapter of warnings, and history split them: the warned-of turkey came back, and the warned-of chicken and pigeon did not.