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Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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ooting, prime facie evi-dence of an intention to hunt. Certainly the citizens of Connecticut havereason to be proud of the very advancedposition held by the Commonwealth in thegreat economic question of bird-protection. A Bison Herd in the Adirondacks The legislature of New York appropriated$20,000 for the purchase of a herd of Bisonto be placed in the Adirondacks. GovernorHughes vetoed the item, in view of the manyother demands on the treasury of the State.In Massachusetts the citizens interested inthe perpetuation of the Heath Hen did notask for a state appropriation, but raised themoney themselves to carry on the experi-ment. Had the same method been taken in 1this state. Governor Hughes probably wouldhave conceded the use of the necessary publiclands. Both of these instances emphasize tthfe importance of not permitting a wildspecies to approach so near extermination as-the Bison and Heath Hen, and also empha-sizes the need of the proposed ten years,closed season for the Wood Duck.
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i#3 THE WOOD DUCK By WILLIAM DUTCHER ^^t il^ational Si0&omtion of Audubon ^otktit0 SPECIAL LEAFLET NO. 10 (Supplement to Bird-Lore, Vol. X, No. 4, July-August) The object of this leaflet is to call the attention of the American publicto a condition that now exists, but which it is hoped may be remedied byconcerted and prompt action on the part of all those who love the beauti-ful in nature and are willing to guard it. When Audubon wrote his account of the Wood Duck inFormer o i i r i i • ., , I035. only seventy-two years ago, he referred to their very great abundance in such statements as follows: At Boston, where I found them rather abundant during the winter; I knew a person in South Carolina who caught several hundreds in the course of a week ; For my own part, I assure you, I have seen hundreds in a single flock. That they were abundant even as late in the last century as in the seventies is well established by reference to Dawsons Birds of Ohio, published in 1903, in which

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