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" are the French names, their translations, or the French and English 

 combinations in use among the gunners of southern Louisiana." 



Citations of localities where a name is used follow the name. A name 

 index concludes this valuable contribution toward a more complete glossary 

 of game bird local names. — J. A. A. 



Game Protection in the United States. — The last annual review of 

 game protection in the United States 1 notes " the steady progress in the 

 movement for the increase of game by propagation and the establishment 

 of game preserves"; the condition of the different species of game as to 

 increase or decrease in 1910; game conditions in the National parks and 

 game refuges, National bird reservations, State game preserves, and private 

 game preserves; statistics of the importation of foreign game birds for 

 stocking purposes; State game farms; protection of non-game birds; 

 meetings of game and bird protective associations; administration and 

 enforcement of game laws; legislation and court decisions affecting game 

 and bird protection. It contains also a convenient ' Chronological Record 

 of Game Protection for 1910.' The legislation in 1910 resulted in the 

 passage of few laws affecting game protection; among them were several 

 of importance, but most of them dealt with minor regulations affecting 

 the limits of open seasons, bag limits, licenses, export of game, sale of game, 

 etc. The court decisions were generally favorable to the constitutionality 

 of contested game laws, including the right of a State to regulate the kinds 

 of guns used in hunting game, even to the use of the automatic gun and 

 the gun silencer. 



Another brochure of interest in relation to game protection is ' The 

 Game Market of To-day,' 2 which shows the rapid decrease of game in this 

 country with the increase of population. " From a time when bounties 

 were paid for [the destruction of] ruffed grouse and apprentices appealed 

 from a diet of prairie chicken, we have reached a time when ruffed grouse 

 are within the reach only of the rich and prairie chickens are not to be had 

 at any price. The meat of all big game except deer has been withdrawn 

 from the market, and in many large cities even deer are not in the market, 

 either because of nonsale laws or owing to the limited supply. Rabbits 

 and waterfowl are still offered in some numbers, and quail are on sale every 

 open season in a number of cities; but wild turkeys, once so abundant 

 that colonists shot them from their doorways, are rare in northern markets 

 and are found in very limited quantities in the South; while native wood- 

 cock and other shore birds are sold only in small numbers, if at all. The 



1 Progress of Game Protection in 1910. By T. S. Palmer and Henry Oldys, 

 Assistants, Biological Survey. United States Department of Agriculture, Bureau 

 of Biological Survey — Circular No. 80. Henry W. Henshaw, Chief of Bureau. 

 Issued June 29, 1911. 8vo, pp. 36. 



2 The Game Market of To-day, by Henry Oldys, Assistant Biologist, Biological 

 Survey. Yearbook Depart. Agriculture for 1910, pp. 234-254. 



