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...ivory-billed woodpecker, rarest of U. S. birds, was considered extinct about 1926. But in the latest issue of Audubon Magazine Ornithologist James Taylor Tanner of Cornell estimated that some four & twenty of these birds still live in the loneliest swamps of Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina. Biggest U. S. woodpecker, the ivory-bill once ranged the southern primeval forest, eating larvae from recently dead trees. As the forest dwindled, so did the ivorybill, and Tanner gives it only a slim chance of surviving...
...trumpeter swan, largest migratory U. S. waterfowl, was believed extinct in 1907. But last fall the Department of Interior counted about 212 in Montana and Wyoming. Its chief enemy is the coyote. But last year a game warden found five dead trumpeters being toted by one hunter, who blithely explained: "It's open season for geese...
...vertebrae, a molar tooth. Back in Chicago's Field Museum, where he is Assistant Curator of Paleontology, Patterson pieced the fragments together. Last week he announced that he had one of the finest fossil ground sloths discovered in the U. S. since 1796. In that year the huge, extinct beast was first studied and named Megalonyx by a great U. S. paleontologist, Thomas Jefferson...
Fifteen years ago, bow & arrow hunting was almost extinct in the U. S. Today every State except Arizona permits hunting with bow & arrow; twelve States have special preserves for bowmen, three States (Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin) have separate hunting seasons for archers...
...paper reports an estimate of only about one thousand head of kouprey still surviving in the forests of southern Indo-China, which means that this scientifically important genus will probably become extinct unless immediate government protection is provided...