248 AMERICAN GAME BIRD SHOOTING 
ing grounds. Again, meat was scarce and high, and 
the settlers killed grouse the year round in order to 
supply their tables, and also killed thousands and sent 
them to eastern markets. This, with the hundreds of 
eastern market hunters, caused the almost complete ex- 
termination of the grouse in Kansas. 
“About 1900, the people began to realize that the 
grouse were nearly exterminated, and a crusade for 
their protection started. Stringent laws were passed 
in 1903, and still more severe ones in 1905, and I am 
pleased to state that in the fall of 1905 in a number 
of the central counties the birds have increased to num- 
bers beyond expectations, and to-day the grouse can 
be found in many of the eastern counties. With proper 
protection, pinnated grouse will be abundant in all 
parts of the State within five years. The day of the 
game butcher, the pot and market hunter is past.” 
Texas is now and always has been a State where 
pinnated grouse were abundant, and it is so large that 
there are still great numbers of birds there: The 
growth of the game protective sentiment, which has 
been so marked within the last year or two, promises 
to protect these birds. ; 
There are other States, as Michigan and Wisconsin, 
that have a few pinnated grouse, and the bird occurs 
rarely in the Province of Ontario. 
Prof. Walter B. Barrows, of the Michigan Agri- 
cultural College, whose writings on ornithological top- 
ics are familiar to many of our readers, says: 
“This bird was formerly fairly common over the 
