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or to use any light or lights carried on or 
attached to any automobile for any pur- 
pose whatsoever in hunting.—Sportsmen’s 
Review Mar. 28, 718. 
PENNSYLVANIA WILL PROTECT 
RUFFED GROUSE. 
A petition by which counties can be 
closed against the shooting of ruffed 
grouse, is being sent by the Pennsylvania 
Game Commission to sportsmen and 
hunting clubs throughout Pennsylvania. 
Ruffed grouse, or pheasants, are becom- 
ing alarmingly scarce in various sections 
CALIFORNIA FISH AND GAME. 
of the nation and sportsmen in Pennsyl- 
vania are insisting that the season for 
grouse must be closed for a period if this, 
the greatest of American game birds, is to 
be preserved from ‘extinction. Unfortu- 
nately these birds can not be purchased 
in either the United States or Canada. 
Therefore drastic steps must be taken if 
the grouse are to be saved. 
Already about a dozen counties have 
closed the season for one or two years and 
the petition is circulated in the hope that 
all the counties will act simultaneously 
to protect the bird for two years. 
LIFE HISTORY NOTES. 
LIONESS TRACKED TO LAIR. 
On April 24, 1918, I made a trip up 
the mountain side northeast of Wawona 
looking for lion signs and found the tracks 
of a female mountain lion (Felis con- 
color). The tracks were about two days 
old. My dogs cold trailed her until it 
began to rain heavily, which destroyed the 
scent, so I was compelled to give her up 
for that day. I was convinced that the 
lioness had young in some of the bluffs in 
that vicinity so started early the next 
morning to hunt the bluffs and about 
seven o'clock the dogs picked up the trail 
of the lioness which was then about twelve 
hours old. After trailing about three 
hours, during which time the lioness had 
made several unsuccessful attempts to kill 
a deer, the trail finally led to the carcass 
of a doe which was partly devoured as it 
had been killed several days earlier (see 
fig. S80). From here the lioness went up 
the mountain, circling round a bluff of 
rocks. On the upper side, atop of the 
bluff, the trail apparently ended for the 
lioness had jumped down over a ledge and 
Fig. 79. 
Site of the lair of mountain lion near Wawona, California. 
Photograph by Jay C. Bruce. 
