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6. Many experienced Quail and Pheasant hunters claim ihut 

 they often find these game birds by watching for places where 

 Jiawks are waiting, and in the majority of cases the covy of 

 Quail or Pheasants will be discovered In the vicinity wher.> 

 Hawks are. Hawks will follow day after day a flock of Quail 

 and often, especially in severe snowy weather, kill all the 

 birds. 



7. Hawks, particularly the smaller species, kill large numbers 

 of small song birds, which are valuable as insect destroyers. 



8. All laws are liable to abuse and violation, and this one is 

 no exception to the general rule. 



9. The effect of a continuance of the law as it now is will be 

 to increase the production of poultry and decrease its price. 



WHERE SKUNKS WERE PAID FOR 



The records on succeeding pages indicate lliat in ilic 

 county of Clinton, bounties were paid in the year 1885, 

 188() and 1887 for 294 Slvunl<s, and during the same 

 years premiums were allowed in Centre county for 3,370 

 Skunks. Fi-(«m this it seems evident Ihat both of these 

 counties had local laws in force which enabled the 

 county conmiissioiieis to pay for tln-se animals. The 

 Panther, which in included among other animals paid 

 for in ISSC hy ("ciilrr county, \v:is, no liiMiliI, aiiolhcf 



-ciii-r.-il l.-iw \\1 icli \v:is i-c|iiMhMi in ISSil. 

 .A FEIW WOIA'KS. 



Tlie Ijaclwiwainia coiiiily rccdids sliow thai four 

 Wolves w( rr p.iid fi;r in 1S!M;. I»r. fsaiah F Kverliart 

 and Mr. (leo. 1'. l''iiant, tvvc well informed naturalists, 

 of Scmiiton, Lackawanna county, have for many years 

 cijIIciIimI spefimens in tiiis .section and they are in- 

 cliunl l!> b('li( \(' there is s(niie mistake about these ani- 

 mals, as neither of Ihcsr o(.,|t|,.|Mcn havr licani of -., 

 -cniiim- wild Wolf in thai lo.-aiily within tlir last 

 twenty years. Tioga ceiiuty jmid for ihiee Wolves, but 

 as shown cl.sewhere in this work they had been brought 

 from the far west and libera.ted in Tioga and killed. 



