lunubei'S of Kuffed Ciiuuse, Rabbits, besides a large 

 number of the smaller species of insectivorous aud song 

 birds. It was also clearly deuioustrated to the law- 

 makers that Wildciits were increasing quite rapidly in 

 the several eouuties previously particularized by name. 

 The Wildcat subsists entirely on a flesh diet, and tlie 

 damage this species does in destroying poultry, lambs 

 and young pigs of farmers who reside in the spai-sely- 

 settled mountainous regions is not in any degi'ee com- 

 pensated by the destruction of other small wild ani- 

 mals which molest the farmer's crops or his poultry. 



TllKV I'l'liSlK AND KILL DKKK. 



Wildcats, as will be seen by consulting the testimony 

 of numerous contributors on the latter pages of this 

 article, are very detrimental to game. They unques- 

 tionably kill many young Deer and they also not infre- 

 quently, it is said, attack and kill the adult Din-r. 

 I'nited States District Attoiney lion. II. .\. Hall, ..f 

 Pittsburgh, informs me that at St. Clary's, illk (•(Muity, 

 where Messrs. Andrew Kaul and J. K. P. Hall own a 

 game preserve of probably 6.n0 acres, in which are con- 

 lined a large number of deer, there is much trouble ex- 

 perienced from the AVildcats disturbing the Deer. Mr. 

 Hall further states that small bands (probably families) 

 of these carnivorous animals, in the winter when snow 

 is on the ground, sometimes pursue, like dogs, full- 

 grown Deer, which they run down and kill. 



-MANY KI.N'D.S OF BIRDS .SL.\IX. 



One of the few, in fact, about the only species of game 

 bird that is at all numerous, which the sportsman can 

 go in qui^st of in this Commonwealth without almost 

 continually coming in contact with trespass notices 



