Report Upon the Collections of Mammals Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona During the Years 1871-1872, 1873, and 1874 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Report Upon the Collections of Mammals Made in Portions of Nevada, Utah, California, Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona During the Years 1871-1872, 1873, and 1874In certain localities in New Mexico and Arizona, it wages a terrible warfare upon wild turkeys, destroying hundreds of them, and depopulating their former breeding places to such an extent that in a few years the race will have become almost extinct in this region, if measures are not taken to prevent the wholesale slaughter.The crania and skins of two fine specimens were secured on the south ern mpe of the Triplet Mountains, near the Gila Valley, close to the San Carlos Indian reservation in Arizona.A large species of cat was frequently heard during the night howling near the camps in Eastern and Middle Utah, supposed to be the above, but no specimens were secured. The inhabitants of the surrounding country state that they are not numerous.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.