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Fisheries and Game, has noticed particularly the tracks of cats 

 in his travels. He found numerous cat tracks on the islands of 

 Muskeget, Tuckernuck, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard. On 

 Nantucket he noted that the tracks extended three or four miles 

 from any habitation. He saw traces of many birds evidently 

 killed by cats, particularly on Muskeget and Martha's Vineyard. 

 He describes a similar condition on Cape Cod, in the townships 

 of Provincetown, Eastham, Orleans and Sandwich, where he has 

 hunted. He says that cats are numerous in a large section be- 

 tween Worcester and the Rhode Island line, and in the country 

 between Ware and Greenfield; also between Adams and North 

 Adams, and in many parts of New Hampshire. He has observed 

 many tracks on the winter snows; he has seen many cats, some 

 of them with birds, and frequently has noticed them on lonely 

 roads at night, by the light of his car lamps. Several hunters 

 have told him of finding litters of kittens far back in the woods. 



Mr. John B. Burnham, former chief game protector of New 

 York, president of the American Game Protective and Propaga- 

 tion Association, says that his automobile lights frequently show 

 cats at night. He has shot two recently more than a mile from 

 any house and so heavily furred that they evidently were wild. 

 Mr. Maunsell S. Crosby of Rhinebeck, N. Y. asserts that he 

 killed fifteen on his farm in 1913, and he never molests any near 

 the village, as they may belong to his neighbors. Mr. Lee S. 

 Crandall, assistant curator of birds. New York Zoological Park, 

 says that stray cats are numerous in that vicinity. Mr. Allan 

 Keniston, deputy fish and game commissioner, Edgartown, writes 

 that he has killed many wild or woods cats; has seen many 

 tracks, and has seen cats kill meadowlarks and other birds. Mr. 

 C. L. Gold, chairman of the bird committee of the Connecticut 

 State Grange, at Cornwall, Conn., says that there are many 

 there. 



Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, Fairfield, Conn., president of 

 the Connecticut Audubon Society, writes that in seven months, 

 twenty-eight cats have been shot on her twenty acres, although 

 the six nearest neighbors keep none. Mr. George C. Donaldson 

 of Hamilton, member of the bird committee of the Massachu- 

 setts State Grange, avers that there are many cat tracks in the 

 woods in that region. Hundreds of similar assertions might be 

 printed would space allow, but a few abbreviated statements 

 follow : — 



"Hardly a day passes that I do not see one. or more," Nathan 

 W. Pratt, North Middleborough. "Saw at least twenty around 

 a heronry, and judging from the tracks after a night's rain there 



