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tores. Truman Yarnall, a sporting Quaker of Willistown, 
Chester Co., Pa., made the killing of hawks an especial 
hobby. His method was simply to ride up within short rifle 
shot, which he could easily do on horseback; dismount, pass 
his arm through the reins and adjust the sight—about this 
time his horse would toss his head, anticipating the report 
of the gun, usually eliciting an impatient “I do wish thee 
would be quiet!” from his master. I am informed that he 
killed 130 hawks in a single winter. Lancaster County, Pa., 
is agricultural to a fault, and J. Jay Wisler writes that the 
Raptories have a rough time of it; ornithologists, who 
might spread the gospel of protection, being few. J. Claire 
Wood reports that the local hunters of Port Austin Twp., 
Huron Co., Mich., spoke of having shot hundreds for sport 
in the annual spring flight; and at Point Pelee, Ont., a farmer 
sat in his front yard one afternoon and shot 56 without leay- 
ing his chair! (Taverner and Swales). 
But from northern New Jersey come the most shocking 
reports of slaughter: ‘The sportsman who this season 
(1900) has done the greatest execution is J. Elmer Apple- 
gate, and he it was who expressed to 318 Broadway such a 
bunch of hawks as was probably never seen in this city be- 
fore. So unique was the display that the birds were strung 
upon a line and hung outside of the show window facing 
Broadway, where, suspended by the heads in a festoen the 
birds attracted an enormous amount of attention from pass- 
ing pedestrians.”” “‘A flight very much in evidence on April 
16. As usual Gil Spear was there to meet them, and he and 
two of his friends shot close to a hundred during the two 
days occupied in the passage.’ Ajgain, “J. P.,” writing for 
Shooting and Fishing, XXIV-XXVIII, 1898-1900, states 
that Hank White and William Little shot fifty the first day, 
and the next day when the main flight came along, the 
former and Howard Hance “killed 298 in all from largest 
to smallest.’ C. H. Muirhead of South Amboy, writing 
for the same journal, states, “J remember after a morning’s 
shooting at Dad Applegate’s several years ago, we counted 
