SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 83 
It would be an easy matter to fill several pages with records 
of the former abundance of upland game birds, ducks and geese 
throughout an almost countless number of localities in the United 
States. Beyond all possibility of question, it was once within 
the power of the people of the United States to maintain—simply 
by acting in time—a constant supply of gallinaceous game birds, 
which would have made about one-half of the entire United States 
a vast shooting preserve, yielding a generous annual supply for a 
great number of honorable sportsmen and farmer-hunters. Pre- 
cisely what has occured in most localities is reflected in the fol- 
lowing extracts, taken almost at random, from some of the 
reports before us : 
A FEW REPORTS ON GAME BIRDS. 
“‘Shore birdsand game birds are very rapidly decreasing, so that in a few 
years they will be extinct in this state.’,—HENRY H. Brock, Portland, Me. 
‘Bob White has become nearly extinct here.’’—J. L. DAvison, Lock- 
pore, N.Y. 
‘“Bob White and wild ducks are fast disappearing.’’—VERDI BURTSCH, 
Penn wan Nie Yi 
‘“The ruffed grouse is fast being exterminated in this section.’’—A. E. 
KIBBE, Mayville, N. Y. 
**Quail and woodcock are becoming extinct.’-—W1LMOT TOWNSEND, Bay 
Ridge, L. I. 
‘* Partridge have decreased two-thirds.’’—CEYLON CLARK, Hamilton Co., 
NEY: 
‘“Game birds, water fowl of all kinds (except gulls, terns, black ducks 
and brant geese), the larger hawks, owls and herons have decreased in this 
part of the state from 10° to 80°5 or 90° within the past fifteen or twenty 
years.’’— WILLIAM BREWSTER, Cambridge, Mass. 
‘“All game birds are pretty well run out within ten miles of the shore, 
and are very scarce beyond that.’’—Mrs. MABEL, OSGOOD WRIGHT, Fair- 
field, Conn. 
‘“The ruffed grouse can hardly be found now.’’—Lynps JONES, Ober- 
lin, O. 
‘“Probably the wild turkey and ruffed grouse are becoming extinct.’’— 
F. W. LANGTON, Cincinnati, O. 
‘‘ The following birds are becoming extinct : Wild turkey, prairie chicken, 
ruffed grouse, wild pigeon, white herons and others.’’—PrRoF. Amos W. 
BUTLER, Brookville, Ind. 
‘‘All species disappearing rapidly, except quail.’’—F. M. Nor, Indian- 
apolis, Ind. 
‘“Becoming extinct: .4// game birds, perhaps with exception of quail ; 
all raptores.’’—C. K. WORTHEN, Warsaw, III. 
