92 NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
As an object lesson on the necessity for more drastic measures 
for bird and mammal protection, a few facts in regard to one or 
two side hunts may serve a useful purpose. In Recreation maga- 
zine for December there appeared (with a strong denunciation), 
a quotation from the Leominster, Mass., Dadly Enterprise, giv- 
ing the names of thirty-three members of the Gute Zeit Club, 
who were to engage {in a side hunt ‘‘ all day Saturday, with or 
without dogs,”’ a at ‘ ‘‘the game to be counted as 
follows : Fox, 100 points ; coon, 60 ; owl, 75; blue heron, 50 ; 
partridge, duck (wild), hen hawk and black squirrel, 50 each ; 
woodcock and crow, 40 each ; gray squirrel, 30; rabbit, 20; red 
squirrel, 20; chipmunk, 10; skunk, 60; woodpecker, 10; blue 
jay One 
Before this hunt took place, the game warden of Leominster 
warned its promoters that certain birds in their list of intended 
victims were protected by law, and they were forbidden to kill 
them. So far as known, the warning was heeded, and the wood- 
peckers and blue jays escaped the general slaughter. 
In Recreation for January, 1898, was reproduced, from the 
Lebanon, N. H.,:/7ee Press, the details of a side hunt around 
that town, which lasted one week, and in which 140 men and boys 
were engaged/ An indignant resident of Lebanon forwarded to 
the editor a copy of ‘‘a yellow hand-bill, in circus-poster type, 
announcing the great slaughtering match,’’ and a letter of pro- 
test in which he said: 
‘Red squirrels may not be game, but they are harmless little 
creatures; and that a darrel full of them should be shot and 
brought in, and then thrown on the dump to rot, is an outrage. 
All the true sportsmen here are indignant at this piece of whole- 
sale slaughter.’’* 
From Mr. R. A. Gunn, Jr., of St. Albans, Vermont, we have 
received lists of the birds and mammals killed at Enosburg, Ver- 
mont, on the last three annual side hunts let loose at that place. 
The record of slaughter for the last two years is as follows: 
*Since the above was written the editor of Mecreation (Mr. G. O. 
Shields) has informed me of the following : 
‘‘T have had several letters from each of the two towns named, from per- 
sons who participated in the hunts, or who were billed to do so, who admit 
frankly that they now see the error of their ways, and they promise never 
to participate in another side hunt. It is safe to say that many of these 
men are heartily ashamed of their work, and I doubt whether another side 
hunt could ever be gotten up in either place.’’ 
