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Our Vanishing Wild Life

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New Mexico, 44, 59, 106 good game laws in, 289 National monuments of, 344

New South Wales, birds destroyed in, 233

New York, 44, 49, 59, 115, 157, 165 Academy of Sciences, 391 Conservation Commission, 252 deer killed in, 172 excellent laws of, 289 nuisance law of, 235 protects wood-duck, 28 state game preserve of, 317

New York City formerly a "fence", 68 wild deer in, 91

News, Buffalo, 263

Newspapers, value of, in campaigns, 262

New Zealand game preserves, 368 red deer in, 327

Niagara Falls, swans swept over, 93

Nice, Margaret M., 220

Nicol, G.H., 48

Nighthawk as insect-destroyer, 216 shot for food, 216, 218

Niobrara Bison Range, 180

Nooe, Bennet, 222

Norboe, R.M., 317

Norris, Governor Edward P., 348

North, Paul, 50

North American, Philadelphia, 263

North Carolina, 44, 50, 105, 106 deer killed in, 172 hopeless condition of, 292 private preserves in, 360

North Dakota, 44, 50, 106 new laws needed in, 293

Norton, Arthur H., 43, 48

Nova Scotia, 45, 52 game laws of, 357

Nuisances, wild animals may become, 234

Observer, Utica, 263

Ohio, 44, 50, 106 hopeless condition, 293

Oklahoma, 44, 50, 106 bison in, 341 new laws needed in, 294 new code of game laws needed, 294

Oldys, Henry, on sale of game, 307 on value of game, 309

Olympus, Mount, 340

Ontario, 45, 52, 157 game preserves of, 351

Opposition, to game protection in Pennsylvania, 346 in Montana, 348 to legislation, how to meet, 263

Oregon, 44, 50, 106, 125, 165 grizzlies of, 178

Oriole, 222 destroy cotton-boll weevil, 216, 217

Orlady, Judge, decision of, 147

Ornithologist, case of the, 57 Italian, kills song birds for food, 98

Osborn, Prof. Henry Fairfield, 128, 247, 254, 389

Otter, sea, 193

Outdoor Life magazine, 48, 74, 166, 263, 272

Outdoor World magazine, 206, 263

Outing magazine, 263

Owl, barn, 224 great horned, 80, 225 long-eared, 224 screech, 80

Owls, general status of, 224 horned, in British Columbia, 356

Pacific bird refuges, 339

Page wire fence, 371

Palmer, Theodore S., 248 circular on National Reserves, 345 deer statistics from, 172 game laws proposed by, 46 Olympus National Monument, 340 on antelope, 159 on laws, 387

Paradise, birds of, being exterminated, 119, 121, 122, 124, 125 greater bird of, 113, 115, 119

Parakeet, Carolina, 9, 16 purple Guadeloupe, 16

Parasitic infection of ducks, 86

Parents, duty of, 376

Park, Crater Lake, 343 General Grant, 344 Laurentides, 354 Mt. Rainier, 343 Platt, 344 Sequoia, 344 Sully Hills, 344 Yosemite, 343

Parliament, British, 135

Parrot, Yellow-Winged Green, 16

Patagonia, guanaco in, 169

Peabody, James W., text book by, 377

Pearson, T. Gilbert, 28, 44, 50, 107, (portait 251), 291

Pelican Island bird sanctuary, 277

Pellett, F.C., 48

Penalties, schedule of, 2

Pennock, C.J., 47

Pennsylvania, 44, 50, 105, 115, 157, 253 aliens may not own firearms, 103 decision on automatic guns, 147 deer killed in, 172 game wardens killed, 103 new laws needed by, 295 state game preserves, 345

Penrose, Dr. C.B., 45, 50

Pests, introduced species that have become, 330

Petrel, Black-Capped, 21

Phalaropes, 229, 230

Pheasants, being exterminated, 118, 119, 124 blood, 196 English, value of in market, 69 impeyan, 196 introduced species of, 325 not bud-eaters, 326 shipped from China to England, 200 shipped at Hankow, China, 69

Philadelphia Academy of Sciences, 391

Phillips, John M., 254 educational campaign in schools by, 378, 381 on goats killed for food, 70 Pennsylvania Game Commissioner, 345 portrait of, 255

Photographing live game, code of ethics on, 385

Pickhardt, Carl, on caribou slaughter, 69

Pierce, Ray V., private game preserve of, 360 sambar deer acclimatized by, 373

Pigeon, Band-Tailed, 22, 273 Passenger, 9, 11, 12 Victoria crowned, 113

Pinchot, Gifford, 267, 341

Pinnated Grouse disappearing, in Kansas, 48 Nebraska, 49 Montana, 49 Minnesota, 49

Pioneer, value of game to the, 2

Pittsboro, disgrace of, by robin slaughter, 222

Pittsburgh, City ornithologist of, 381 illegal sale of game in, 67

Plague-spots for sale of game, 279

Plant-lice in wheat, 210

Platform, Sportsman's, 384

Platt National Park, 344

Plover, black-bellied, 228, 230 golden, 18, 31, 228, 230 upland, 20, 31

Plume-hunters, 26, 28

Post, New York Evening, 263

Posting farm lands advised, 233

Potato-bug bird, 223

Pot-hunter defined, 246

Poultry destroyed by hawks and owls, 224

Predatory wild animals, 73

Preserve, every National forest should be a game, 267

Preserve, Alberta, 352 Angoniland, 367 Athi Plains, 367 British Columbia, 352 Budonga Forest, 367 Duck Mountain, 354 Elephant Marsh, 367 Freycinet's Peninsula, 368 Grand Canyon, 343 Hargeis, 367 Jubaland, 367 Kangaroo Island, 368 Little Barrier Island, 368 Luangwa, 368 Manitoba, 354 Mirso, 367 Nweru Marsh, 368 Ontario, 352 Pennsylvania State, 347 Riding Mountain, 354 Rustenburg, 368 Sabi-Pongola, 368 Snow Creek, 348 Spruce Woods, 354 Superior National Game, 341 Swaziland, 368 Teton, 348 Toro, 367 Turtle Mountain, 354 Wichita, 341 Wilson's Promontory, 368

Preserved game, murdering, 273, 274

Preserves, private game, 358, 360 private and public interests in, 361

Press, duty of Italian, 103 New York, 263 value of, in campaigns, 262

Prichard, W.H.H., on guanaco, 169

Prospectors, license given to, 176

Protection, accepted by antelopes, 313 bears, 313 mule deer, 313 song-birds, 314 chipmunks, 315 of shore-birds, 232

"Protected" game, sale of, forbidden, 67

Protective Association, Wild Life, 257

Prince Consort of England, 327

Prince Edward Island, 45, 52 breeding foxes on, 374

Prince, German Crown, 359

Ptarmigan, Norway, eaten in Chicago, 69

Publicity in campaign work, 262 value of, 393

Puma as a game-destroyer, 78, 79

Pumas destroyed in British Columbia, 356

Pump guns, 144 campaign against, won in New Jersey, 289

Quagga, extinct, 35

Quail, 89, 90 food habits of, 219 portrait of, 221 protection recognized by, 316 failures in restocking with, 328 California Valley, very scarce, 47 Egyptian, 69 feeding, 89 introduced, 329 killed in 1909-10 in Louisiana, 5 killed by cats, 74

Quebec, 45, 157, 158, 354

Quetico Forest Reserve, 352

Rabbit plague, 85, 331

Rabbits, 53 killed in Louisiana, 5 introduced on Laysan Island, 142

Rangoon, pheasant plumage seized in, 198

Ranier National Park, 343

Rainey, Paul J., 177

Rats and mice destroyed by owls, 224

Reasons against sale of game, 310

Recreation Magazine, 109, 263, 318

Refuges, National bird, 345

Red deer, introduced in New Zealand, 327 of Europe, 372

Reed, Elizabeth A., 219

Remington Arms Co., 144, 146

Renshaw, Graham, 35

Republican, Springfield, 263

Resident game-butchers, 69, 70

Rhea being exterminated, 119

Rhinoceros, great Indian, 189 white, 186

Rhodesian fauna, 186

Rhode Island, 45, 50, 59 new laws needed in, 295

Rhytina, extinction of, 36

Rice, Jr., James H., 45

Riding Mountain Game Preserve, 354

Rifles in hands of boys, 376

Rinderpest in Africa, 83

Roberts. Mrs. Mary G., of Tasmania, 38

Robin slaughter, in Pittsboro, N.C., 222 by Italians, 102 by negroes, 105 in eight southern states, 105 in Texas, 106 in Tennessee, 107 in Louisiana, 108

Robins, food of, 109 killed by cats, 75, 76, 81

Robinson, Arthur, on automatic guns, 152

Roccolo, Italian, for catching birds, 95, 97

Rochester Academy of Sciences, 391

Rocky Mountain Park, 352

Rod and Gun in Canada, 66, 263, 374

Rod and Gun Club of Sheridan, Wyoming, 385

Rogers, Josiah, 340

Roosevelt, Kermit, 186

Roosevelt, Theodore, 142, 249, 341

Rose, John J., 102

Rothschild, Walter, 14, 17, 137

Rubber culture and wild life, 192, 201

Ruffed Grouse, 65, 317

Rush, Frank, 342

Sage Grouse in California, 47

Sage, Mrs. Russell, gifts by, to cause of bird protection, 395

Sale of game, plague spots for, 279 proposed for California, 361 suppress, the, 306, 312

Salt Lake, mortality in ducks on, 87

Sambar deer, 372

Sanctuaries, demand for forest reserve, 267

Sanctuaries in India, 190

Sandhill Crane nearly extinct in Alberta, 51

Sandpipers, 229, 230 killed for food, 68 Bartramian, 20 pectoral, 18 red-breasted, 18, 31

Sandwichmen employed in London, 128

Sanford, L.C., 20

Saskatchewan, 45, 165

Sauter, Frederick, 84

Scab in Mountain Sheep, 83

"Scatter" rifle for ducks, 60, 153

Schlemmer, Max, 137

Sconce, Harvev J., 47

Scott, Thomas H., 340

Sea-lion accepts protection, 317

Seal, California Elephant, 40 West Indian, in New York Aquarium, 39

Sea otter, 52

Seaman, Frank, phoebe birds of, 317

Sentiment in preservation of game, 244

Sequoia Park, 344

Seton, Ernest T., 19, 85 map of elk by, 163, 165

Sharp-shinned hawk, 225

Shea plumage bill, 291

Sheep, big-horn, 71 next species to become extinct, 161 killed by pumas, 78 in Colorado, 272 present status of, 161 in Lower California, 162, 169 in Glacier Park, 340 domestic, 273 curse of cattle and game, 335 opposition from owners of, 348

Sheep-herders of Wyoming, 50

Sheep, black, lumpy-jaw in, 83, 84

Sheep owners exterminating Thylacine, 38

Shields, G.O., 58, 351 protects birds of New York City, 101

Shield's Magazine, 263

Shikar Club of London, 384

Shiras, 3rd, George, 306

Shikaree, new status of native, 188

Shooting game in preserves, 358, 359

Shore birds, becoming extinct, in Montana, 49 Kansas, 48 Massachusetts, 48 Michigan, 49 New York, 49 North Dakota, 50 South Carolina, 50 Texas, 50 Wisconsin, 51 general status of, 227 killed in Louisiana, 5 disappearing, 30

Shore, W.B., on elk shipments, 166

Shrike, 80

Skunk as bird destroyer, 78

Slaughter-grounds for wild fowl, 64

Slaughter, of wild fowl in North Carolina, 311 of non-game birds in North Carolina, 292 in Tennessee, 296 of deer in Montana, 287 in Louisiana, 5 of geese in California, 148 of band-tailed pigeons, 22, 273 of protected chamois, 321 of song birds in New York City, 101 of starving elk, 90

Sloanaker, J.L., on pinnated grouse, 47

Smith, Charles L., 317

Smith, Lee H., 390

Smyth, C. H., 43, 48

Snakes as bird destroyers, 81

Snares for pheasants, 197

Snipe, Jack, portrait of, 230

Snow Creek antelope preserve, 2 game preserve, 348

Society, Audubon, National, see Audubon Royal, for the Protection of Wild Birds, 127, 128, 135, 143 N.Y. Zoological, see Zoological Society

South America, 169

South Carolina, 45, 50, 105, 106 deer killed in, 172 almost hopeless condition of, 296 private preserves in, 360

South Dakota, 45, 50, 59 few laws needed by, 296

Sparrow pest, 334

Sparrows consume weed-seeds, 223

Spoonbill, Roseate, 20

Sportsman, case of a, 57 character of true, 54, 58, 64 definition of a, 382

Sportsman's Platform, 384

Sportsman's Review, 363

Sports Afield, 263

Sprague, John F., 48

Spruce Woods Game Preserve, 354

Squirrel, fox, extinct in New York, 44 gray, in danger, 32 red, as bird destroyer, 79

Squirrels killed in Louisiana, 5

Standard-Union, Brooklyn, 263

Stanford, Harry P., 49 on deer slaughter, 287

Staley, Walter C., 50

Star, Washington, 263

States, a roll-call of the, 263

State game preserves, 345 New York, 347 Pennsylvania, 347

Stratton, James W., 50

Stebbing, E.P., 190, 196

Stephan, S.A., agent for Carl Hagenbeck, 372

Stevens Arms Co., 144, 146

Stevenson-Hamilton, Maj. J., of the Transvaal, 177, 248 status of the settlers, 365 on Sportsman's Platform, 385

Stilt, 230

Stokes fund, Caroline Phelps, 395

Stone, Witmer, 45, 50, 391

St. Vincent Island game preserve, 360

Sully Hills National Park, 344

Sunday gun, 153

Sunken Lands of Arkansas, 271

Sun, New York, 263

Superior National Game Preserve, 341

Supreme Court decision, 3

Swan, Trumpeter, 19

Swans swept over Niagara Falls, 93

Swallows, as insect destroyers, 216, 218

Switzerland, chamois slaughter in, 322

Tagging game for sale, 370

Taming wild birds and mammals, 314

Taylor, W.P., 47

Taylor, W.J., 374

Teachers, duty of, 377

Teaching wild life protection to the young, 376

Telegraph wires, birds killed by, 77

Tener, Governor, at Carrick, Pa., 380

Tennessee, 45, 105, 106, 107, 252 a reformation needed in, 296 Game Commissioner of, 252

Tern, Common, 113

Terns and Gulls saved by Audubon people, 320

Terns becoming extinct in Delaware, 47 in North Carolina, 50

Teton Game Preserve, 348

Texas, 45, 50, 105, 106 insects destroyed by birds, 216 laws needed in, 297

Text-books, 377 duty of writers of, 378

Thayer John E., 24, 395

Thome, Samuel, 395

Thylacine of Australia disappearing, 38

Tibet, 190

Tilcomb, John W., 51, 240, 242

Timber in National forests not to be cut, 338

Times, New York, 263

Tinkham, H.W., 231

Tobacco pest, 212

Tomalin, Richard W., 233

Tortoises, 17

Toucan, toco, being exterminated, 118

Toumay, James W., 392

Towne, S.G., 49

Townsend, C.V.R., 371

Townsend, Charles C., on protected ducks, 318

Townsend, C.H., elephant seals taken by, 40

Tragopans, 196

Trapper uses game for bait, in Wyoming, 72

Trappers as game destroyers, 196

Trapping grizzly bears strongly opposed, 177

Traps on Burma-Chinese border, 198

Treaty, international, for protecting migratory birds, 354

Triangle Islands, seals on, 39

Tribune, New York, 263

Trogon being exterminated, 118

Trophies, purchase and sale of, 383

Trout caught near Spokane, 205

Trouvelot, Leopold, introducer of gypsy moth, 331

Truck crops, 212

Tuna Club, angling ethics of, 144

Turkey vulture incident on Long Island, 91 eaten by Italians, 101

Turkey, Wild, in South Carolina, 50 Texas, 50 Missouri, 49

Turner, J.P., 52

Turtle Mountain Game Preserve, 354

Union and Advertiser, 263

Union Fire-Arms Co., 144, 146

United States Government, recent work in game protection by, 249, 266

Upp, Thomas M., 81

"Useful Birds and Their Protection", 75

Utah, 45, 51, 59, 106 new laws needed in, 298 national monuments of, 344

Vancouver Island, elk on, 165

Vanishing species not always recoverable, 323

Van Kennan, E.A., 290

Venezuela, a plume-hunter in, 129 wild birds' plumage from, 122

"Vermin" destructive to birds, 78

Vermont, 45, 51, 59, 157 deer killed in, 172 deer killed in Vermont since 1897, 240 few new laws needed in, 298 management of deer in, 240-242 protects wood-duck, 28 re-stocking, with deer, 240

Viquesnev, J.A., 51

Virginia, 45, 51, 106, 109 deer killed in, 172 many new laws needed in, 298

Vreelarid, Frederick K., 353

Wagner, George E., 51

Wallace, Dillon, 245 estimates 3,500 sheep in Colorado, 161

Wallace, John H., Jr., 46, 253, 268 on Florida laws, 277

Wapiti, 164 in Mt. Olympus National Monument, 340 (see also, Elk)

Ward, Charles Willis, 255, 349, 395 donor of bird preserve, 319

Ward, Henry L., 51, 389 seals discovered by, 39

Warden service based on merit system, 301

Wardens, game, 60 killed on duty, 103 number of salaried, 237

Ward-McIlhenny Wild Fowl Preserve, 361

Waterton Lakes Park, 352, 353

Washington, 45, 59, 165 grizzlies in, 178 a new code of laws needed in, 298

Wayne, Arthur T., 133

Weasel, 78, 317

Webber, F.T., on Colorado quail, 89

Webster, F.M., 214, 381

Webster, Frederic S., 381

Weed seeds eaten by quail, 219, 220

Weeks, J.W., bird bill of, 267, 306

Weevil, cotton-boll, 215, 216, 221

Western Districts Game and Trout Protective Association, 185

Western Field, 263

West Virginia, 45, 51 deer killed in, 172 good conditions in, 298 protects wood-duck, 28

Wharton, William P., 43, 49, 253 bison, census by, 180

Wheat, losses on, 209, 210

Whipple, James S., 250

Whitney, Caspar, 131

Whooping Crane extinct, 49 in Manitoba, 52

Wichita National Bison Herd, 178, 294

Wichita National Game Preserve, 341

Wilcox, Albert, 395 bequest from, 256

Wild fowl, 48 slaughter grounds, 64 refuge, Louisiana State, 344

Wildebeest in Cape Colony, 185

Wild Life Call, 388

"Wild Life in Australia", 332

Wild Life Protective Association, 152, 257

Wilderness area of North America, 156 game will disappear from, 163

Willet, 13, 31

Williams, A. Bryan, British Columbia game warden, 52, 178, 356

Wilson, Mrs. Minnie Moore, 16

Wilson, Alexander, on the passenger pigeon, 12

Wilson, Erasmus, on quail feeding, 89 on Carrick's bird day, 379

Wilson, Governor Woodrow, signs bill against machine guns, 289

Wilson, James, Secretary of Agriculture, 343

Winchester Arms Co., 144, 146, 150

Wind Cave Bison Range, 180, 390

Wisconsin, 45, 51, 59, 157 deer killed in, 172 new laws needed in, 301

Woburn Park, David's deer at, 36

Wolves destroyed, 79 in British Columbia, 356

Wombat in list of fur-bearers, 193

Women promote bird slaughter, 7

Wood, George E., 49

Wood, Lieut.-Col. William, 355

Woodcock, 30, 49, 50, 51, 52

Wood-Duck, 28 eaten in seventeen States, 29 disappearing in Louisiana, 48 nesting in Zoological Park, 207

Woodpecker, Downy, 214, 226 golden-winged, 226 hairy, 226

Woodpeckers, food of, 226

Wooley-Dod, Arthur G., 51

Wool-Growers' Association, 2 opposes game preserves, 335, 348

World, New York, 263

Worthington, C.C., 236

Wrens destroy boll weevil, 218

Wyoming, 45, 51, 59 efforts by, to feed starving elk, 166 elk case, 71 deer, 158 grizzlies, 178 laws needed, 302 succor of elk in, 337 National Monuments in, 344 State Game Preserve in, 348

Yale University, 392

Yalakom Game Preserve, British Columbia, 354

Yellowstone Park, animals in, 336 bison herd of, 180 elk in, 165 protected animals of, 313

Yoho Park, 352

Yosemite National Park, 343

Yukon Territory, sale of game in, 357

Zebra, Burchell's, extinct, 37 in Cape Colony, 185

Zoological Park, New York, 19 ducks killed in, 92 thylacine in, 38 wood-duck, quail and rabbits in, 315, 316 woodpeckers decreasing in, 226

Zoological Society, New York, 389, 395 gift of bison herd from, 178, 294, 341 on "extermination", 32 protects birds of New York City, 101

Zoologists, duty of American, 386

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