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pigeon roost, it is more than probable that more pigeons leave 

 the woods when the roost breaks up than enter it at the begin- 

 ning of nesting." This comforting statement and what follows 

 reminds one of the present attitude of complaisance toward the 

 destruction of our diminishing wild fowl. He continues: "The 

 roost of 1880 in Forest County, it was estimated, contained not 

 less than 2,000,000 pigeons, and that naturally this number 

 was increased by 3,000,000 hatched during the stay in the 

 county. The same ruthless hunting of the birds on and off 

 their nests, by night and by day, which is now going on in the 

 present roost, was carried on in 1880 by a much larger force of 

 law breakers, but after all their destruction it could not be dis- 

 covered, anywhere in the woods, where the trees contained 

 apparently one less bird than they did before the slaughter be- 

 gan. A gentleman who visited the Spring Creek region recently 

 says that one cannot walk in any direction a rod through the 

 woods without coming upon scores of dead and wounded 

 pigeons. The McKean Gun Club, an association of gentlemen 

 who believe only in legitimate sport, are taking measures to 

 send representatives to the roosting and nesting grounds to 

 arrest all persons guilty of violating the strict game law. Dur- 

 ing all the year that this law in regard to wild pigeons has been 

 openly and notoriously broken in this part of Pennsylvania, a 

 single arrest of an offender has never been made. ' ' 



