GOOSE SHOOTING. 25 1 



National Museum has a number of examples of this 

 kind, where the birds' bodies have been pierced by long 

 arrow heads, which remained in the wound and were 

 covered up in its healing. Many years ago there was 

 figured in Forest and Stream the wing of a swan which 

 still bore, lying between the radius and ulna, a long 

 copper arrow head, which must have been shot into the 

 bird somewhere in the far Northwest. The old wound 

 had healed, and the bird when killed was in good con- 

 dition. 



Notwithstanding the annual destruction by the na- 

 tives, there are always left vast numbers of geese to 

 take their flight southward at the approach of winter, 

 but when they reach the northern confines of the United 

 States they find awaiting them a horde of gunners bent 

 on their destruction. 



ON THE STUBBLES. 



In the interior, and especially on the high plains of 

 the wheat-producing belt of Manitoba, the Dakotas 

 and Nebraska, geese are shot in two principal ways. 



Of these, the more common is shooting them in the 

 grain fields from which the crops have been harvested, 

 to which the birds resort for food. They pass the night 

 in lakes or rivers, not far from the feeding ground, 

 and in the early morning take their flight to the stub- 

 bles, there to feed during the day. The gunners pre- 

 pare as blinds, or places of concealment, pits dug in the 



