226 Where to Hunt 



have proved disastrous to the imported birds. Wild 

 turkey are fairly common in Juniata, Dauphin, Centre, 

 Union, Snyder, Bedford, and Blair counties, and are 

 sometimes met with elsewhere. Ruffed grouse are 

 found generally throughout this state, except in some of 

 the southeastern and western counties. The best coun- 

 ties for grouse shooting are Forest, Elk, Potter, Clear- 

 field, Wayne, Bradford, Centre, Union, Clinton, Lycom- 

 ing, Luzerne, Pike, Cameron, Monroe, Susquehanna, 

 Tioga, Warren, Jefferson, and Cambria. Wilson's or 

 English snipe are quite plentiful about the meadow- 

 lands during spring migrations. Probably the best 

 locality for snipe shooting is in northwestern Pennsyl- 

 vania, in the vicinity of Lake Erie, in Crawford and Erie 

 counties. During the spring and fall migrations there 

 is very good shooting on the Susquehanna river, from 

 Sunbury to Havre De Grace, Md. At this time there 

 is also good duck shooting at Presque Isle bay, Lake 

 Erie. Rail (sora) and reed-bird shooting is quite good 

 along the Delaware river in September. The sora 

 breed quite plentifully at Presque Isle, where good 

 bags of these birds are often taken in September. 

 Quail shooting for the last two or three years, owing 

 to the severe winters, has not been very good except 

 in some few localities. Shore-birds are some years 

 quite plentiful, during migrations, about Lake Erie's 

 shores. Ruffed grouse have been plentiful for several 

 seasons in Venango county, but market hunting has 

 depleted their number. During the season of 1896 

 at least 2,000 were shot in this county, where one pot- 

 hunter captured about 700. The same may be said of 

 Tioga county. It is reported that market-hunters sent 



