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for it to do so; upland game is at last getting a 

 "fair show." 



As an example of modern methods in State pro- 

 tection of upland game-birds, let us take for a 

 model the State of New York exclusive of Long 

 Island, which has special laws of its own. First, 

 there is a closed season of indefinite duration on 

 the mourning dove and the introduced Hungarian 

 partridge, and bob-white quail cannot be shot 

 until 1925. There remain only the ruffed grouse 

 and introduced pheasant as local game-birds with 

 any open season at all. In the case of the former 

 bird, one month is allowed to the sportsman to 

 secure his season's limit of ten, with the proviso 

 that he shall take no more than two in any one 

 day. The open season of the ring-necked pheasant 

 runs four days only, and the sportsman may shoot 

 three cock birds, but no hens. The pheasant is 

 polygamous and therefore the cocks can be spared 

 in considerable numbers without impairing the 

 productive potentiality of the race. Although 

 approximately a hundred thousand men hunt these 

 two birds each autumn throughout the State, 

 under the present system of narrow bag-limits 

 and short seasons both grouse and pheasants are 

 on the increase. 



Long Island, which is a part of New York, has a 

 set of laws applicable only to itself, and they are 

 as bad and out of date as the laws of the rest of 



