Hillsboro, 
Missouri :— 
Mexico, 
SECOND ANNUAL REPORT. 1135) 
Chief causes: ‘‘Clearing away timber and under- 
brush, drainage of marshes, cultivating the 
prairies.’? Many important species are named 
as having become very rare. ‘‘ Wolves are on 
the increase!’ 8, 11, 1, 5. 
Walter G. Savage. ‘Birds are increasing. . . . One- 
fourth more than 15 years ago.’’ ‘Thirteen im- 
portant species are named as slowly disappearing: 
mallard, two teals, wood duck, ruffed grouse, 
prairie chicken, turkey, pigeon, swallow-tailed 
kite, raven, pileated woodpecker, myrtle warb- 
ler, and tufted titmouse. 1, 5. 
J. N. Baskett, Three fifths of the birds remain. 
ewan s 
Old Orchard, St. Louis Co., O. Widmann, No general estimate, but a 
St. Joseph, 
Kansas :— 
Manhattan, 
Manhattan, 
Lawrence, 
long list of birds have decreased,—some 25%, 
some 50%. Dickcissels have increased. 1, 2, 3, 
5, 8. 
Sidney S. Wilson, Birds undoubtedly decreasing—¥% in 
the last 5 years! 2, 1. 
Prof. D. E. Lantz, As to whole number, birds are in- 
creasing. Nineteen species are more numerous 
than 15 years ago. But all wild ducks, geese, 
cranes, hawks, owls, curlews, the pinnated 
grouse, ruffed grouse, turkey, pigeon, 2 eagles, 
raven, black vulture and 7 small species have 
decreased, some being really extinct. 3, 5, 7. 
C. W. Pape, As to whole number, not decreasing ; 
but’ many species are, notably water birds, shore 
and marsh birds. The orders after Columbe are 
about holding their own; those preceding, 
‘‘decreasing on the whole. Deep snows are 
one cause.”’ 3. 
Prof. 1. lL. Dyche. All game birds, except quail, decreasing. 
More quails than ever before. [See ‘‘ Reports on 
Game Birds,’’ page 84.] Pinnated grouse being 
exterminated by market and pot-hunters who 
use dogs. ‘‘ Stop the hunting with dogs, and the 
chickens would increase.’? Song birds have held 
their own in the fields and forests, but (except- 
ing the blue jay) have been driven out the towns 
by the English sparrow. ‘‘Sportsmen as a rule 
are very considerate; they are usually satisfied 
with a reasonable number of birds. All large 
mammals and many small ones becoming ex- 
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Garden City, Guy B. Norris, Birds are decreasing ; several species 
Wichita, 
conspicuously so. ‘‘ There are about 4 as many 
birds here now as ten years ago.’’ Birds are 
almost all migrants; number fewest in dry 
season), (27116; 13: 
Chas. Payne, Birdsareincreasing. Cause: stringent 
game laws, that really are enforced. No quail 
can be sold in the state, nor any game exported, 
save for scientific purposes. 
