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logical conclusion as to the supply of wildfowl we 

 may expect from that Far-Northern country? 



Probably the more accurate conclusion is that a 

 great many of the wildfowl we shall in the future 

 shoot in the United States will be bred rather in 

 the extreme southern than the extreme northern 

 parts of the Dominion of Canada. These breeding 

 grounds will supply part of the Atlantic coast fowl 

 as well as those of the Mississippi Valley and the 

 Gulf coast. The Pacific and Yukon breeding 

 grounds will supply the California coast in the win- 

 ter. Some of the Arctic islands, as yet unknown, 

 will supply a species or more of geese which mi- 

 grate southwest across the Rockies to the Pacific 

 each fall. Other Arctic islands, but partially 

 known, will supply lessening numbers of the white 

 geese. The Hudson Bay region, decreasing and 

 not improving in productivity, will send us our 

 lessening number of Canada geese. A few birds 

 will breed in scattering fashion in our own upper- 

 western states when we stop hammering them in 

 the spring. 



For twenty-five years the writer has been more 

 or less a student for fifteen years more or less a 

 student in a professional way of the supply of 

 game in America, more especially in Western Amer- 

 ica. The decrease of every species in every locality 



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