enough for all. A few mounted game keepers who understand 

 the control of the enemies of the red grouse of the moors, could 

 protect the cock of the plains on many square miles and such 

 industry should be encouraged if we wish to save the grouse 

 and to perpetuate sport. 



IN pattern, marking, and color, the heath-hen is identical with 

 the prairie grouse. It was considered by the earlier orni- 

 thologists to be an Eastern form of the abundant Western 

 species. It was plentiful, formerly, in Massachusetts, Connecti-* 

 cut, and the Eastern parts of New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl- 

 vania, and Virginia. Large numbers of heath-hens were shot 

 on Long Island, New York, and this was one of the first birds 

 to be protected by law in that state. It is significant that it 

 became extinct, like the wild turkey in Ohio, at a time when 

 shooting was prohibited. 



The only surviving heath-hens inhabit the island or Martha's 

 Vineyard, Massachusetts, and it is greatly to the credit of the 

 capable Massachusetts Game Commissioners that the birds 

 have not been permitted to become extinct. Although shooting 

 was prohibited, the birds continued to vanish because for a 

 time they were not protected from their over-abundant natural 

 enemies and from cats and roving dogs which destroyed them 

 every season. Forest fires also destroyed many nests, and in 



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