well as other citizens. It is a part of the general world 

 unrest, and also a re-crudescence of our American out- 

 lawry against things "verboten." There are many fac- 

 tors entering into it, the high price of ammunition for one 

 thing. This has caused cuts in appropriations and all 

 kinds of bills to do away with game commissions or hamp- 

 er their work. Many states have suffered in many ways. 



Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes, artist and one of the fore- 

 most advocates of the conservation of wild life, writes in 

 the October North American Review as follows: 



It is significant that in countries where game is plenti- 

 ful it often largely consists of species introduced from 

 other lands, after the indigenous species had become so 

 rare as no longer to afford good sport. The Asiatic 

 pheasant have practically supplied the field of all Europe 

 for two or three jcenturies, and are fast becoming the 

 game-bird par excellence of the Northern United States. 

 It is well, for herein lies about the last chance for survival 

 of such splendid native species as the ruffed grouse, north- 

 ern quail and several kinds of western grouse. 



In such a country as ours, where each of the forty- 

 eight States considers itself sovereign within its borders, 

 and the game as its possession while present, it has been 

 exceedingly difficult to arrive at satisfactory conserva- 

 tion laws and impossible to enforce them. 



The Bureau of Biological Survey at Washington, emi- 

 nently fitted for the task by virtue of its years of amassing 

 detailed information as to the migrations, breeding habits, 

 food and general economy of every species of American 

 animal, was given the labor and responsibility of zoning 

 the entire country and grouping States with respect to 

 open seasons on all species of migratory game, and an 

 opportunity of suggesting model laws for these groups of 

 States, which should do away in large measure with the 

 old border irregularities rising from the operation of va- 

 riously different laws on the two sides of State, or even 

 county, lines. This, now happily accomplished, plus 

 the elimination of spring shooting of migratory game-birds 

 and sale of game all over the United States, has already 

 worked a marvelous benefaction upon most of migra- 

 tory species. 



The people most given to breaking the game-laws are 

 aliens from Southern Europe, notably the Italians, who 

 are inveterate small-bird hunters whenever they can get 

 an opportunity. This habit they bring with them. 



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