76 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



laws are not wholly bad; but in the breasts of her 

 citizens the desire to kill is so strong, and the 

 majority of her gunners are so thoroughly selfish 

 about their so-called "rights" to kill, that the game 

 has ruthlessly been swept away according to law! 

 The state is a striking example of the deplorable 

 results of legalized slaughter. Her sportsmen will 

 not have a law forbidding the use in hunting of the 

 automatic shot-gun. Oh, no! They say, "Limit 

 the bag, shorten the open season, and the species of 

 the gun won't matter." 



As an answer to that proposition, we will file this 

 list of game birds and mammals that already have 

 been totally exterminated in the state of Ohio : 



Pinnated grouse, Elk, 



Passenger pigeon, Black bear, 



Wild turkey, Puma, 



Pileated woodpecker, Lynx, 



Carolina parrakeet, Gray wolf, 



Bison, Beaver, 



White-tailed deer, Otter. 



Eight species of valuable birds are reported as 

 "threatened with extinction" in the near future; 

 but we will not take time to name them. One of 

 them is the quail. 



But to return to the grouse. 



Pinnated Grouse. Unless there is a swift and 

 complete change in the treatment accorded the 



