File:Bird-lore (1914) (14775210533).jpg

Identifier: birdlore16nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
y of the State Society, ElizabethUownhour, patrols of Boy Scouts at FortWayne, the students at Teachers College.Indianapolis, and many other helpers,were soon busy, proving that the peopleof Indiana generally were wide awake totheir duties and privileges. Maine.—The State Societys appeal tothe press, with instructions, was widelypublished. Massachusetts.—The press and peo-ple responded generously to the call forwork, the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire Girls,and other clubs of young people exertingthemselves everywhere, as the recordsshow. New Hampshire and Vermont.—Similar methods and kindly energybrought excellent results. New York.—A widespread and urgentappeal was voiced by the press, and avast amount of rescue-work was done,especially in reference to Ducks andupland game-birds. Vermont.—The press repeated thewarnings sent them, with good efTect. Virginia and West Virginia.—Greatpublicity was obtained and much bene-ficial work promptly accomplished. ■ ; -- V •4s 4 *1, -« -.
Text Appearing After Image:
THOUSANDS OF SCAUP DUCKS WINTERING IN SAFETY AT DAYTONA, FLORIDA 144 Bird-Lore TWO INTERESTING CASES Mr. C. E. Brewster, Game Law Expertof the United States Department ofAgriculture, who has been doing suchsi)lendid work for a number of years inenforcing the federal regulations in refer-ence to the interstate shipment of game,is continually making interesting dis-coveries. Two of these are referred to inthe following communication recentlyreceived from him. The big gun to whichhe refers is a type of the enormous weaponswhich have long been used by the pot-hunters in certain regions along ourAtlantic coast. The value of one of theseguns to the market hunter lies in the factthat it can throw shot to a far greaterdistance than an ordinary fowling-pieceand, further, the quantity of pelletswhich it hurls at a single discharge iscapable of producing enormous executionon a flock of feeding wild-fowl. Theduck scaffold is an ocular demonstra-tion of the length to which bird-butcherswill go in

Note About Images