THE SLAUGHTER OF NORTH AMERH \\ BIRDS 



life as that of the market-gunner who works six days a week, 

 from sunrise until sunset, hunting down and killing every 

 game bird that he can reach with a choke-bore gun. 



During the past five years several of the once-greal kill! 

 grounds have been so thoroughly "shot out" that they have 



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A MARKET-GUNNER AT WORE ON MARSH ISLAND. 



Killing Mallards for the New Orleans market. The purchase of this Island by Mrs 



ge has now converted it into a, bird Banctuary. 



ceased to hold their former rank. This i^ the case with the 

 Minnesota Lakes, the Sunk Lands of Arkansas, the Klamath 

 Lakes of Oregon, and I think it is also true of southern Cali- 

 fornia. The Klamath Lakes have been taken over by the 

 Government as a bird refuge. Currituck Sound, at the Dorth- 

 eastern corner of North Carolina, has been so bottled up by 

 the Bayne law <>f New York state that Currituck's greatest 

 wild-fowl market has been cut off. Last year only one-half 

 the usual number of ducks and geese were killed; and already 



