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numbers of KuftVd Grouse, Rabbits, besides a large 

 uumber of the smaller species of insectivorous and song 

 birds. It was also clearly demonstrated to the law- 

 makers that Wildcats were increasing quite rapidly in 

 the several counties previously particularized by name. 

 The Wildcat subsists entirely on a flesh diet, and the 

 damage this species doK^s in destroying poultry, lambs 

 and young pigs of farmers who reside in the sparsely- 

 settled mountainous regions is not in any degree com- 

 pensated by the destruction of other small wild ani- 

 mals which molest the farmer's crops or his poultry. 



TMEY PURSUE AND KILL DEER. 



Wildcats, as will be seen by consulting the testimony 

 of numerous contributors on the latter pages of this 

 article, are very detrimental to game. They unques- 

 tionably kill many young Deer and they also not infre- 

 quently, it is said, attack and kill the adult Deer. 

 United States District Attoiney Hon. H. A. Hall, of 

 Pittsburgh, informs me that at St. Mary's, Elk co-uuty, 

 where Messrs. Andrew Kaul and J. K. P. Hall own a 

 game preserve of probably 650 acres, in which are con- 

 fined a large number of deer, there is much trouble ex- 

 perienced from the Wildcats disturbing the Deer. Mr. 

 Hall further states that small bands (probably families) 

 of these carnivorous animals, in the winter when snow 

 is on the ground, sometimes pursue, like dogs, full 

 grown Deer, which they run down and kill. 



MANY KINDS OF BIRDS SL,.A.IN. 



One of the few, in fact, about the only species of game 

 bird that is at all numerous, which the sportsman can 

 go in quest of in this Commonwealth without almc<5t 

 continually coming in contact with trespass notices 



