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GAME BIRDS, WILD-FOWL AND SHORE BIRDS. 



The following score, ^ from the Winous Point Club, indicates 

 the decrease of Redheads in their region in twenty years : — 



Another score- from the same club gives some information 

 regarding three other species during the same time : — 



Year. 



Canvas-backs. 



Mallards. 



Blue-winged 

 Teal. 



1880, 

 1885, 

 1890, 

 1895, 

 1900, 



665 



237 



697 



72 



1 



1,319 

 943 

 394 

 218 

 232 



2,110 



1,019 



603 



21 



A club record ^ from the Sandusky marshes in Ohio shows 

 the decrease in Blue-winged Teal and Green-winged Teal in 

 eighteen years : — 



Year. 



Blue-winged 

 Teal. 



Green-winged 

 Teal. 



1881, 

 1885, 

 1890, 

 1899, 



441 

 506 

 373 

 184 



1 Huntington, Dwight W.: Our Feathered Game, 1903, p. 183. 



2 Ibid., p. 212. 3 Ibid., p. 232. 



