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system as soon as possible aud the 

 opportunity will be open to the other 

 states of the Union to profit by lliis most 

 valuable discovery. 



GAME LAWS IN MASSACHUSETTS. 

 The game law of Massachusetts makes 

 an open season on deer in that state from 

 sunrise on the first Monday of December 

 to sunset the following Saturda.v, the 

 bag limit being one deer in a season, and 

 it to be killed with a shotgun. There 

 is no open season in Massachusetts on 

 ruffed grouse, but quail and pheasants 

 may be hunted legally each year from 

 October 20 to November 20. The bag 

 limit on cjuail is four in one day, or 



twenty during the season, and on pheas- 

 ants two in a day, or six in a season. 

 Aineriran Field. 



GAME LAWS IN COLORADO. 



In Colorado there is uo open season 

 on elk, mountain sheep, antelope or 

 beaver, but one is permitted to kill one 

 deer having two or more points on each 

 horn, from October 1 to October 4, both 

 dates inclusive. Aliens are not permitted 

 to hunt in the state or to own or 

 possess firearms. Shipment of game out 

 of or into the state is permissible, pro- 

 viding the shipper has a transportation 

 permit issued by the State Game Commis- 

 sioner, but not otherwise. 



American Field. 



LIFE HISTORY NOTES. 



A CALIFORNIA CONDOR SEEN NEAR 

 HEAD OF DEER CREEK, 



On May 11, 1920, while inspecting a 

 timber sale area at the head of Deer 

 Creek, east of Hot Springs, California, 

 in the Sequoia National Forest, with 

 Supervisors Cunningham and Benedict 

 and Deputy Supervisor Derby, we noted 

 an immense bird circling over the clump 

 of redwoods {Sequoia gigantca) on Deer 

 Creek. The bird settled in the top of 

 one of these trees 400 /o OOO yards away 

 from us. In flight it was like a buzzard, 

 except that it was entirely too large. 

 It had a brownish beak, a ruff around its 

 neck, a light brownish color on the under 

 feathers of its wings, and it had a very 

 large wing spread. It appeared to be an 

 adult specimen, the white tipped wing 

 coverts and lanceolate feathers about the 

 neck being particularly noticeable. We 

 judged at the time that it must be a 

 specimen of the California condor 



{Oymnogyps calif ornicus) , and in look- 

 ing up the subject on our return to Hot 

 Springs the description for that bird 

 fitted very well the bird we had seen. 

 Paul G. Redington. 



DUCKS IN THE IMPERIAL VALLEY. 

 During December ducks were fairly 

 numerous in the Salton Sea at the mouth 

 if the Alamo River, in Imperial County, 

 but they were very difficult to approach 

 and very few sportsmen were able to se- 

 cure more than five or six birds at a 

 time. A preponderance of shovellers was 

 in evidence. Even with an abundance of 

 ducks good shooting is limited in the 

 Imperial Valley, owing to a lack of suit- 

 able shooting ponds. Apparently the best 

 bags are obtained at certain seasons of 

 the year when a high wind is blowing. At 

 such times canvasbacks and "bluebills" 

 are secured along their lines of flight. 



