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here aucl there a marshy '-pot, one of 

 the dogs came to a stop. We waited a 

 little while but no bird fiew up, though 

 the dog still said there was one there. 

 After the dogs had searched a few mo- 

 ments one of them made a jump and 

 caught a bird in his mouth. To our 

 surprise we found it to be a Yellow 

 Rail and a fine one too. Later we 

 found anotlier which acted in a similar 

 manner. They don't take flight very 

 readily. I walked almost onto one 

 where the grass was not a foot high, but 

 could not see him nor did he run out. 

 This spring I am going to search for 

 more of them, and I will try to watch 

 them more. 



C. Cliff, Murray, N. Y. 



[This is I think the first record of this 

 species being taken within our county. 

 —Ed.] 



Wholesale Slaughter of Wild Fowl. 



Mr. W. Allen, who was at Clear Lake, 

 the past week, tells ws'[ about some 

 shooting done there last Friday^ and 

 Saturday by two gentlemen from 

 Garner. The flight of geese and ducks 

 during those days was something phe- 

 nomenal — larger than ever before 

 known; this [caused by the scarcity of 

 bodies of water elsewhere. The ice 

 had not broken up in the lake and the 

 birds alighted on the ice to rest. These 

 parties went out to the middle of the 

 lake, cut ou t blocks of ice and built an 

 ice house for a blind, then placing their 

 decoys out on the ice,, they began'the 

 slaughter, and at the time Mr. Allen 

 saw them they had nearly 400 geese, 

 brant and ducks. Such shooting has 

 never been known at the lake. — Water- 

 loo, (la.) Reporter . 



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