BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 181 



We are issuing this final warning as a matter of duty 

 to the people of the West, for the benefit of their sons and 

 grandsons, and also as a duty to the harassed and perse- 

 cuted birds that can not speak for themselves. It has be- 

 come a case of now or never. When we have put the cold 

 facts fully before the people of the western states, our 

 duty is done. If they are too indifferent to the future, too 

 eager to kill, and too neglectful of their plain duty to pos- 

 terity to arouse and resolutely take action, the loss will not 

 in any degree be chargeable to the Permanent Wild Life 

 Protection Fund. 



The legislatures of nearly all the western states will sit 

 during January and February, 1917. After that they will 

 not reassemble for two years; which will be 1919. The time 

 to act is NOW ; for the way things are going in some states, 

 two more years may easily prove fatal to the grouse species 

 in those states. Stop for a moment and think what the 

 automobiles, good roads, pump and automatic guns, wicked 

 open seasons and sinfully large bag limits are doing to the 

 harassed remnants of sage, sharp-tail and pinnated grouse 

 each season! 



Your only time and opportunity for making a choice be- 

 tiveen saving and exterminating your finest upland game 

 birds is NOW. 



THE DEADLY AUTOMOBILE. 



During the past five years there has arisen a new enemy 

 to wild life, a hydra-headed monster more deadly than 

 would be ten thousand dragons of St. George. 



As a new factor of destructiveness to game birds and 

 deer, the automobiles of America bid fair to become almost 

 as deadly as the pump and automatic shot-guns. I estimate 

 that on all upland game birds, shore birds, many of the in- 

 terior ducks, and all deer, they have increased the dangers 

 to wild life, over the influence formerly exerted by horse- 

 drawn vehicles, at least 300 per cent. 



