Wild turkey; also various transient and straggling water birds.--(Witmer Stone.) RHODE ISLAND: Wood-duck, knot, greater yellow-legs, upland plover, golden plover, piping plover, great horned owl.--(Harry S. Hathaway, South Auburn.) SOUTH CAROLINA: Wood duck, abundant 6 years ago, now almost gone. Wild turkey (abundant up to 1898); woodcock, upland plover, Hudsonian curlew, Carolina rail, Virginia rail, clapper rail and coot. Black bear verging on extinction, opossum dwindling rapidly.--(James H. Rice Jr., Summerville.) SOUTH DAKOTA: Prairie chicken and quail are most likely to become extinct in the near future.--(W.F. Bancroft, Watertown.) TEXAS: Wild turkey and prairie chickens.--(J.D. Cox, Austin.) Plover, all species; curlew, cardinal, road-runner, woodcock, wood-duck, canvas-back, cranes, all the herons; wild turkey; quail, all varieties; prairie chicken and Texas guan.--(Capt. M.B. Davis, Waco.) Curlew, very rare; plover, very rare; antelope. (Answer applies to the Panhandle of Texas.--Chas. Goodnight.) Everything [is threatened with extinction] save the dove, which is a migrating bird. Antelope nearly all gone.--(Col. O.C. Guessaz, San Antonio.) UTAH: Our wild birds are well protected, and there are none that are threatened with extinction. They are increasing.--(Fred. W. Chambers, State Game Warden, Salt Lake City.) VERMONT: If all states afforded as good protection as does Vermont, none; but migrating birds like woodcock are now threatened.--(John W. Tilcomb, State Game Warden, Lyndonville.) VIRGINIA: Pheasants (ruffed grouse), wild turkey and other game birds are nearly extinct. A few bears remain, and deer in small numbers in remote sections. In fact, all animals show great reduction in numbers, owing to cutting down forests, and constant gunning.--(L.T. Christian, Richmond.) WEST VIRGINIA: Wood-duck, wild turkey, northern raven, dickcissel.--(Rev. Earle A. Brooks, Weston.) Wild turkeys are very scarce, also ducks. Doves, once numerous, now almost _nil_. Eagles, except a few in remote fastnesses. Many native song-birds are retreating before the English sparrow.--(William Perry Brown, Glenville.) Wood-duck and wild turkey.--(J.A. Viquesney, Belington.) WISCONSIN: Double-crested cormorant, upland plover, white pelican, long-billed curlew, lesser snow goose, Hudsonian curlew, sandhill crane, golden plover, woodcock, dowitcher and long-billed duck; spruce grouse, knot, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, marbled godwit and bald eagle. All these, formerly abundant, must now be called rare in Wisconsin.--(Prof. George E. Wagner, Madison.) Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon. Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.--(Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee Public Museum.)