12 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 
of these various causes in answer to the third question 
in the list. 
1. Sportsmen and “so-called sportsmen,” . : 54 reports 
2. Boys who shoot, : : : : : 42 Oe 
3. Market-hunters and “ hat tants 5 : ; i da 
4. Plume-hunters and milliners’ hunters, . : Hy 
5. “Shooters generally,” : : : A UR 
6. Ege-collecting, chiefly by amall: pave : : 20 ee 
7. English sparrow, “ : [3/38 
8. Clearing off timber, savage of (oma: saa 
cities, ‘ We a: 
9. Italians and ninune a petra song rite eh : i ae 
10. Cheap firearms, : Ke 
11. Drainage of marshes, 5 : * 
12. Non-enforcement of laws, . 
13. Gun clubs and hunting contests 
14. Trapping birds for sale alive, 
15. Prospectors, miners, and range-riders, 
16. Collectors (ornithologists and taxidermists), 
17. Colored population, 
18. Indians (for decrease of game a mapedey. 
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