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covered my side-table. In Putnam County, New 

 York, the deer feed in pastures with the cows and 

 browse in the gardens. Near Port Jervis, New 

 York, a ruffed grouse recently nested and hatched 

 a brood within two feet of the foundation of an 

 occupied house. In the Wichita Bison Range, in 

 Oklahoma, many thousand wild ducks now fre- 

 quent the small stream that runs through it, and 

 until seen in photographs their masses are unbeliev- 

 able. At Palm Beach and Tampa, Florida, the 

 wild ducks know the boundary lines of their pro- 

 tected area quite as well as do any of the gunners. 

 On their protected waters, they are fearless of man, 

 but beyond the dead-line they immediately become 

 wild and wary. 



The most conspicuous of all cases of the recogni- 

 tion of protection by wild animals is to be found 

 in the Yellowstone Park. This feeling of security is 

 shared by nearly all the wild animals of the Park, 

 but it is most strikingly displayed by the herds of 

 mule deer, antelope and elk that make their home 

 near Fort Yellowstone and the Mammoth Hot 

 Springs. In winter the mule deer and antelope are 

 fed on hay on the parade ground, as if they were 

 domestic sheep and cattle. At Ouray, Colorado, 

 bands of mountain sheep pose for photographs at 

 short range, in the town, in a manner that to every 

 hunter of that wild and wary species is a profound 

 surprise. 



The bears of the Yellowstone Park also furnish 



