38 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



In the old days, Dr. B. H. Warren examined tens 

 of thousands of bird stomachs, and in published re- 

 sults gave the correct economic status of every bird 

 known in Pennsylvania'. The U. S. Biological Survey 

 performed a similar work at Washington, D. C. 

 However, when the ranchers and rustlers, in order to 

 alibi their half-wild dogs decreed death on the coyote, 

 the wolf, the mountain lion and the prairie dog, no 

 such thing was done, and these animals are being done 

 to death without their economic status having been 

 determined. Yet the law creating the U. S. Biological 

 Survey, which has now become an appanage of 

 the cattlemen provides "careful examinations to de- 

 termine the economic status of each of the species of 

 the faunal life of the United States." 



If as at the present time a determined onslaught is 

 made against the Black Bear in Pennsylvania, sports- 

 men and naturalists should demand a series of stomach 

 examinations, taken simultaneously, of bears and un- 

 tagged dogs, secured in same territory. The location 

 of the mutton will be in the gorged stomachs of the 

 half-wild dogs. The writer is interested in dogs, has 

 owned and bred them for many years, 'blue blooded 

 dogs, true blooded dogs,' Airedales, Russian Wolf- 

 hounds, Dalmatiaans and German Police Dogs (with 

 wolf admixture) at various times, has every respect 

 for a good dog, admires him for his sagacity and 

 fidelity, but the outlaw dog, whose owner never feeds 

 him, and leaves him loose at nights to forage, is an 



