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Bird - Lore 



(Iowa) Courier calls aloud for a law to 

 prohibit all killing of these birds for a 

 period of years, in order to perpetuate 

 the species. Another paper declares that 

 seventy-five per cent of these birds have 

 been killed by the severe weather. 



A Wisconsin paper, dated January 31, 

 1912, said: "There is plenty of evidence 

 that thousands of Partridges, Grouse 

 and Prairie Chickens froze to death, or 

 fell an easy prey to wildcats, weasels and 

 mink." A New Jersey writer for the New 

 York Evening World of February 6, 

 191 2, reports: "Rabbits, Pheasants, 

 Grouse, Quail and Hungarian Partridges 

 are dying from hunger in Northern New 

 Jersey, because of a coating of ice under- 

 neath the snow, through which they can- 



not dig holes for food. Since the fall of 

 snow, Saturday night and Sunday morn- 

 ing, the hungry birds have become tame. 

 In Morris county, yesterday, more than 

 one farmer fed game along with his barn- 

 yard fowl. Wilbur CoUud, of Pine Brook, 

 went to his barn at milking-time, yes- 

 terday, and found twenty Quail half- 

 frozen under a cedar bush. They were so 

 weak from lack of food that they could 

 not fly, and Collud captured all. Half- 

 starved rabbits, many almost as tame as 

 house cats, are hiding under barns and 

 houses. Their burrows are frozen up. All 

 the coves and marshes along Great South 

 Bay are frozen, and Wild Ducks, which 

 gather there in great numbers at this 

 season, are starving. Gunners, yesterday, 



CHARITY TO THE OUTDOOR POOR 

 From New York Evening Mail, January 17, 1912 



