The Oriole 



Official Organ of the 



SOMERSET HILLS BIRD CLUB 



BERXARDSVILLE, NEW JERSEY 



Devoted to the Protection and Study of Birds 



V OLUME III ;: :: :: NUMBER I 



John Dryden* Kuser, Editor 



Miss Marise Blair, / Associate 

 Meredith H. Pyne, j Editors 



EDITORIAL 



The Somerset Hills Bird Club has decided to make 

 special efforts toward game preservation by the libera- 

 tion of various species of native game birds in the 

 Somerset Hills. This has always seemed to us to be 

 the ideal method in territories where a particular spe- 

 cies has been wiped out or where it has become so scarce 

 that its increase of its own accord would be slow and 

 uncertain, even were the adequate protection afford- 

 ed it, which favorable circumstance, is, indeed, rarely 

 the case. The two principal species with which we 

 particularly wish to restock the community are Bob- 

 Whites and Ruffed Grouse. Is there any reason why 

 we should not have good shooting for both species in 

 the Somerset Hills? Is not the locality good for 

 either? 



But to bring this about we need the co-operation of 

 everyone in the community. Will not sportsmen help 

 us in these two ways: First, by not shooting any 

 Quail or Grouse near Bernardsville for the next few 



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