568 GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



will drive out both TJob-whitos and Grouse; but there need 

 be lit lie tear of this, for short ojien seasons each year will 

 l)revent any undue increase of any <;anie bird outside of the 

 l)reserves. The main energy of the game })reserver, however, 

 should be directed toward the conservation of native game 

 birds, which, from the sportsmen's point of view, are far 

 su])erior to those of foreign origin. 



What is called the "more game" movement, the exjwnent 

 of which in this country is Mr. Dwight W. Huntington, editor 

 of the Amateur Si)ortsman, has resulted in an increased inter- 

 est in game farms and a lai'ge demand for birds for breeding 

 purposes. 



Among the many books on game and gamekeeping, ]\lr. 

 Huntington's recent work Our Wild Fowl and Waders is i)ar- 

 ticularly timely, as it deals largely with methods of ])reserving 

 American water-fowl. The I nited States Department of 

 Agriculture has issued some valuable papers on game i)reserv- 

 ing and game preserves which should be in the hands of every 

 prospective game breeder.^ 



The Game Preserve Increases Insectivorous Birds. 



The question often is asked by bird i)rotectors, "Why 

 should we take an interest in conserving game birds?" And 

 the complaint goes on. "We protect them, feed them and 

 care for them, going to considerable trouble and expense, 

 only to see them exterminated by sportsmen and market 

 hunters during the next open season. The sportsmen, the 

 market hunters, the marketmen, the gunmakers and the 

 amnumition makers care nothing for the protection of birds. 

 Their only interest in bird protection is that they may have 

 more birds to shoot." There is a grain of truth here, but, 

 nevertheless, the conservation of game birds is the most impor- 

 tant of all bird protection. As hereinbefore stated, the high- 

 est value of birds to man is their aesthetic and educational 



' The followins: bulletins benr on the subject: Pheasant Raising in the United States, by Henry 

 Oldys, assistant, Biol. Surv., with a chapter on Diseases of Pheasants, by George Byron Morse, M.D., 

 U. S. Dept. of Agr., Farmers' Bulletin No. .390; Introduction of the Hungarian Partridge into tlie 

 United States, by Henry Oldys, from Year Boak of Dept. of .\gr. for 1900; Private Game Preserves 

 and their Future in the United States, by T. S. Palmer, U. S. Dept. of Agr., Bureau of Biol, .'^urv., 

 Circular No. 72. 



