THIRD BIENNIAL STATEMENT 129 



In order to offend no outsider, I will take the case of 

 our own proud Empire State, New York, long a leader in 

 wild life protection causes, and certainly today in the fore- 

 most rank of wild-life-protecting states. The bag-limits 

 in the various states are very much alike, especially on 

 waterfowl and shore birds, and each state is just about as 

 criminally careless, and just as guilty of unsquare deals to 

 its wild life, as is New York. 



If you live outside New York, figure out for yourself the 

 guilt of your own state, on the basis here shown. 



Possibilities of Game Slaughter in New York in 1918. 



230,000 Licenses ; Residents, $1.10 for the lot ; aliens, $10.50 ; 

 for each license holder all of the following : 



2 Deer. 

 636 Varying hares or rabbits (6 per day, for 106 days). 

 200 Squirrels (5 per day, 40 days). 



838 Quadrupeds. 



24 Woodcock. 

 20 Ruffed Grouse. 

 3 Pheasants. 



( Golden Plover, "| 

 1365 < Yellow-Legs and >Mixed bag of 15 per day for 91 days. 



(Black-b Plover, J 

 2275 Ducks. Twenty-five per day for 91 days. 



728 Geese. Eight per day for 91 days. 

 2275 Snipe. Twenty-five per day for 91 days. 

 728 Brant. Eight per day for 91 days, 

 f Rails, ) 



2275 j M^hens, '? Mixed hag of 25 per day for 91 days ' 

 ' Gallinules 



9693 Birds. 

 Total quadrupeds and birds killable by each license-holder, 10,531. 



For the 230,079 hunting licenses issued in 1918, this means 

 that the State of New York gave to her sportsmen legal 

 authority to kill on her territory wild birds and quadrupeds 

 up to a demnition total of 2,422,961,949 head. 



