GAME CLUBS, PARKS, AND PRESERVES 33 



and on Long Island, will no doubt save the deer and 

 the wood-grouse, and, it may be, the moose which 

 have recently been restored to the Northern woods. 

 National and State parks are, however, few in num- 

 ber, but the matter of their increase now claims the 

 attention of sportsmen and all others interested in the 

 subject of game-preservation. The number of these 

 parks should be increased in time to save the turkey 

 and the grouse, the wild-fowl and the waders, as well 

 as the larger game. 



The army of migratory birds which annually crosses 

 the United States moves north and south in three 

 divisions ; one following the Atlantic, one the Pacific 

 Coast, and the third the great valley of the Mississippi 

 River. 



There should be parks, State and national, in Min- 

 nesota, North Dakota, and Montana, to include small 

 lakes and ponds where the wild-fowl still build their 

 nests, and where the northern-grouse, the sharp-tails, 

 and the great sage-cock could be safe from persecu- 

 tion. There should be parks of refuge for the swans, 

 the geese, and ducks, adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico, 

 where these birds might safely pass the winter. 



The wild-fowl which now nest in these Northern 

 States in a very few years will be found there no 

 more. The Southern refuge is equally important. 

 The slaughter, not alone in our marshes, but on the 

 haciendas of Mexico as well, is sotnething beyond 

 belief. Many of the ducks which now go each winter 

 to the " Armadas " of Mexico to seek the peace and 

 quiet which precedes the slaughter, are driven from 

 our Southern marshes by continued persecution. 



