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and calling for laws prohibiting its use in liuni- 

 ing, were adopted by the New York Association 

 for the Protection of Fish and Game, The New 

 York State League for the Protection of Forests, 

 Fish and Game (composed of about forty local 

 clubs), and by the Lewis and Clark Club, of Pitts- 

 l)urg. 



And out of all this chorus of condemnation, there 

 have been heard only three voices in defense of 



"the most murderous shot-gun ever invented.'' 

 The real struggle will come in the State legislatures, 

 where the protectors of wild life will meet a well- 

 paid automatic-gun lobby, prepared to fight to the 

 last gasp for the right to make a deadly machine for 

 bird slaughter. The gun-lobby should be met by 

 a nature-lovers' lobby, equally strong, and equally 

 able to camp on the field and stay to the finish. 

 Such a warfare requires war funds. w. t. h. 



SUNFISH. 

 From a photograph made at the New ^'ork Aquarium. 



MOSQUITO LARViE AS FOOD FOR WHITEFISH FRY 



T^HE young whitefish, referred to in the last 

 number of the Bulletin as having been fed on 

 the larvae of mosquitoes, have now reached the 

 fingerling stage and make such a beautiful show- 

 ing in the exhibition tanks, that a full account of 

 their rearing will be interesting to fish culturists. 



Whitefish are not easily raised in captivity, and 

 the custom at government and state hatcheries 

 has been to deposit them as soon as hatched. 



The eggs were received, like nearly all the fish 

 eggs used in maintaining the fish-hatching exhibit 

 at the Aquarium, from the United States Fisheries 



Bureau. Eight thousand eggs which were main- 

 tained in the hatching jars at an average tempera- 

 ture of 40 degrees, hatched out between March loth 

 and i6th. They were transferred to glass aquaria, 

 and after the absorption of the yolk sac, were fed 

 on herring roe for about a month, after which this 

 food was mixed with finely pulverized liver. 



On May 12th, seven thousand fry were delivered 

 to the New York Fish Commission for planting in 

 state waters. The loss up to this time was com- 

 paratively slight amounting to about four hundred 

 and fifty fry. One thousand were retained at the 



