BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 215 



Here is a curious coincidence: 



In 1912, throughout the United States from coast to 

 coast, with but very trifling exceptions, the slaughter of 

 upland game birds was merrily proceeding. We can write 

 on a visiting card the exceptions wherein the lid had been 

 put on by the enactment of long close seasons. Here they 

 are: 



LONG CLOSE SEASONS IN THE U. S. IN 1912. 



On Bobwhite Quail, in Arizona and N. Dakota. 

 On the Heath Hen, in Massachusetts. 

 On Pinnated Grouse, in Michigan and Missouri. 

 On Ruffed Grouse, in Missouri and Nebraska. 

 On all Grouse, in Oklahoma. 



With the exception of a few trifling county restrictions, 

 according to the official records those were absolutely all! 



In January, 1913, the New York Zoological Society placed 

 in the hands of every state legislator (and there were nearly 

 7,000 of them), every governor, state game commissioner 

 and state game warden, a campaign book entitled "Our 

 Vanishing Wild Life," which incidentally endeavored to 

 raise Cain in all states about the sweeping destruction of 

 our upland game birds, and particularly the grouse and 

 quail. The slaughter of the bob-white came in for special 

 attention, and it was unsparingly condemned. 



Today, twelve of our states and two Canadian provinces 

 have stopped the killing of the bob-white! 



no bob-whites killed in these states i 



Arizona Ohio 



Colorado N. Dakota 



Kansas S. Dakota 



Michigan Utah 



New Mexico Wisconsin 



New York Wyoming 



