COCK SHOOTING 





EXERCISING IN WINTER. 



favoured localities the decrease within the past twenty years has 

 been 50 to 60 per cent. 1 In the same interval the birds have 

 certainly not diminished in Ontario or Eastern Canada in any degree 

 approaching this striking' decline. 



Fifty years ago the feathered hosts of the passenger pigeon 

 swarmed ' in numbers numberless ' over the temperate regions 



SETTER POINTING A COCK. 



1 Vide Report Agricultural Department, U.S. Biological Survey, by 

 A. K. Fisher, 1901, Washington, U.S.A. 



