THE SLAUGHTER OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS 301 



II has been in progresSj day and aight, ever since our firs! 

 game laws were enacted. In this land of ours I he sacred name 

 of Liberty is used by rogues and thieves of ;i hundred different 

 kinds to cloak their outrageous practice- against the common 

 welfare. There are in this country at least five million per- 



PTARMIGAN 8LAUGHTEB IX THE ABSENCE OF LAW, YUKON TERRITORY 



Part of three thousand Ptarmigan slaughtered al Pueblo, near White Horse, by miners 

 railroad men. The birds are hauled In by the wagon-load. 



sons of lawless and criminal instincts, who believe in doing 

 exactly as they please whenever the clutch of the law Is not 

 actually upon them. Hundreds of thousands of alien- are 

 coming to our land to make their fortunes, and have their 

 children educated at public expense, whose fixed idea of lil>- 

 erlv is that it means license to do as they please. 



Against this lawless element, both native and alien, the 

 defenders of wild life always will be al war. in an irrepressible 

 conflict.- The following are the most deadly features i>t" the 



