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Whooping Crane. Pectoral Sandpiper. 



Trumpeter Swan. Black-Capped Petrel. 



American Flamingo. American Egret. 



Roseate Spoonbill. Snowy Egret. 



Scarlet Ibis. Wild Turkey. 



Long-Billed Curlew. Band-Tailed Pigeon. 



Hudsonian Godwit. Heath Hen. 



Upland Plover. Sage Grouse. 



Red-Breasted Sandpiper. Prairie Sharp-Tail. 



Golden Plover. Pinnated Grouse. 



Dowitcher. White-Tailed Kite. 

 Willet. 



It is possible that our new law for the federal protection 

 of migratory birds may save and bring back a few of these 

 species; but I regard the great majority of them as absolutely 

 doomed. Some of these will go out as the special victims of 

 sportsmen and gunners ; and others will go — in South America 

 — as the prey of the rapacious scourge of bird life throughout 

 the world known as "the feather trade." 



Until recently the beautiful wood duck stood in the above 

 list; but the operation of the federal migratory bird law, 

 giving it complete protection everywhere in the United States 

 has reasonably insured its survival. 



At present, none of the grouse of the United States are 

 protected from extinction by the new federal law. Certainly 

 the pinnated grouse should have been permanently protected. 

 The preservation of all our species of grouse, quail and ptar- 

 migan depends upon the various states inhabited by those 

 species, and west of the Great Plains not one state is adequately 

 protecting any grouse species. The legislators are afraid of 

 the sportsmen — afraid to do their duty toward the grouse; 

 and the birds are being exterminated according to law! 



