6. Many experienced Quail and Pheasant hunters claim that 

 ihey often find these game birds by watching for places where 

 Hawks are waiting, and in the majority of cases the covy of 

 Quail or Pheasants will be discovered in the vicinity where 

 Hawks are. Hawks will follow day after day a flock of Quail 

 and often, especially in severe snowy weather, kill all the 

 birds. 



7. Hawks, particularly the smaller species, kill large numbers 

 of small song birds, which are valuable as insect destroyers. 



8. All laws are liable to abuse and violation, and this one is 

 no exception to the general rule. 



9. The effect of a continuance of the law as it now is will be 

 to increase the production of poultry and decrease its price. 



WHERE SKUNKS WERE PAID FOR. 



The records on succeeding pages indicate that in the 

 county of Clinton, bounties were paid in the year 1885, 

 1880 and 1887 for 294 Skunks, and during the same 

 years premiums were allowed in Centre county for 3,370 

 Skunks. Frcan this it seems evident that both of these 

 counties had local laws in force which enabled the 

 cotinty commissionei-s to pay for these animals. The 

 Tanther, which is included among other animals paid 

 for in 1886 by Centre county, was, no doubt, another 

 species which was covered by a local scalp act or some 

 general law wliich was repealed in 1889. 



A FE!\Y \VOL.VES. 



The Lackawanna county recoids show that four 

 Wolves wei'e paid for in 1890. Di-. Isaiah F P^verhart 

 and Mr. Geo. P. Friant, two well infonned naturalists, 

 of Scranton, Lackawanna c®unty, have for many years 

 collected specimens in this section and they are in- 

 clined to believe there is some mistake about these ani- 

 mals, as neither of these gentlemen have heard of a 

 genuine wild Wolf in that locality within the last 

 twenty years. Tioga county paid for three Wolves, but 

 as shown elsewhere in this work they had been bi-ought 

 fi'om the far uest and liberjited in Tioga and killed. 



