The Mallard 



upon the Mal- 

 lard goes without 

 saying. They 

 could not stand 

 up under it for- 

 ever. A recent 

 example (often 

 quoted) is of a 

 gunner at Big 

 Lake, Arkansas, 

 who sold 8000 

 Mallards in a sin- 

 gle season, that of 

 1893-94, an d it 

 was estimated 

 that 120,000 

 birds of this spe- 

 cies were shipped 

 that winter from 

 that station 

 alone. 



But now, 

 thanks to intelli- 

 gent legislation, 

 the market hunt- 

 er is a creature of 

 the past. We are 

 learning some- 

 thing of altruistic 

 restraint, and 

 there is hope that 



Photo by the Author some of OUT 



noblest species of 



game birds may recover a semblance of their former numbers. The most 

 encouraging factor in this campaign for rehabilitation is the quick recogni- 

 tion on the part of the birds of the value of protected areas. Any suitable 

 body of water which is really protected will teem forthwith with waterfowl. 

 A dozen examples spring to mind : Eastlake and Westlake Parks in 

 Los Angeles, Laguna Blanca at Santa Barbara, Lake Merritt in Oakland ; 

 but the supremely instructive example, I believe, occurs in Golden Gate 

 Park, San Francisco. Here, in a favorable setting of Nature, which is, 

 nevertheless, thronged with humans, rests Stow Lake, foremost of a little 



Taken in San Francisco 



HIS HONOR, THE GREENHEAD 



1754 



