240 INDEX 



Practicability of saving existing remnants of wild life, 



23, 38, 42, 43, 83, 98, 99, 101, 111-114, 117, 119, 120, 122, 170 

 Preserves, established, 12, 23, 24, 38-40, 85, 97, 115-117, 120, 121, 



167, 175, 181, 189, 197, 198, 209, 210 



Marsh Island, La 181 



Rockefeller Foundation Purchase 210 



especially needed 70, 199-201, 207, 222 



Private 198, 201-213, 217-219 



Author's 217-219 



How to establish 214, 215, 220 



Response of wild life to protection, 



99, 101, 104-106, 113-117, 121, 213, 216, 217 

 Reward of efforts to save wild life, 23, 24, 32-37, 65, 70, 85, 96, 



117, 170, 171, 173, 176, 179-182, 185, 186, 197, 198, 217-220 



Rodents, etc., destroyed by birds 5, 79-82, 123, 131, 194 



Russian mulberry trees planted for birds 130, 131 



Slaughter for food and commercial purposes, legalized but un- 

 warrantable, 9, 10, 15-23, 32, 41, 42, 44, 57, 61, 62, 66, 69, 

 74-80, 85-89, 94, 96-98, 109, 110, 119, 135, 161-164, 179, 

 191, 192 



illegal but permitted 188, 189 



Sources of information 172, 220, 223-229 



States and areas remiss in treatment of wild life, 



15, 20, 27, 28, 41, 42, 74-80, 96, 164, 189 



Stomachs of birds examined 67, 149 



sea-lions examined 127 



Trout 205 



Vermin 214, 215, 220 



Vermont's solution of the deer problem 105-107, 133 



Vertebrate life, Species of, exterminated 11, 12, 23, 65 



Wastefulness in treatment of bird question 4, 96, 97 



Characteristic of American spirit 18, 187 



Weapons and automobiles in hunting 15, 21, 24, 74, 76 



Weeds kept down by birds 71-73, 97, 135, 194 



