THE GAME BREEDER 13 



Order Gaviae or Gull-like Szvimmers. ward to seize them. And sometimes a 



Skimmer 1 mother goose with her family of gos- 



Kittiwakes 2 lings will be sitting unsuspectingly on 



Gulls 22 the water when one of the brood sud- 



Terns 17 denly flutters and disappears, and pres- 



Skua gulls or jaegers 4 ently another follows, and then another, 



until at last the old lady, who is unable 



Total 46 to count, finds herself wholly bereft 



Order Tubinaves. a " d ch T ildle , ss > despoiled by a voracious 



\lbatrosses 5 P ■ ocean, too, the angler or 



Petrels or fulmars! '. '.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. 15 goosefish, with gaping mouth, the shark, 



Shearwaters -11 barracouda and the cod all live on 



sea birds ; and in Newfoundland the fish- 

 Total 31 ermen use the petrels, shearwaters and 



hagden for bait in catching codfish, and 



Order Pygopodes or Divers. G n the seal islands in the Pacific the fish 



Grebes 8 known as killer will hang around the 



Loons 3 rocks and snatch the seals off as they 



Auks 7 clamber up the kelp-covered slopes. 



Puffins 5 Thus goes on the struggle for exist- 



Doyekie 1 ence. It is not only "dog eat dog," ac- 



Guillemots 14 cording to the adages, and "fleas which 



have other fleats to bite 'em, and so go 



Total 40 on ad infinitum," but in all the animal 



Grand total 277 kingdom we find the law of reprisal m 



We discover, however, that reprisal constant operation. Man's sympathies 



is the prime order of nature, and that go with those which affect his own sub- 



the water birds do not have it all their sistence least. If edible ducks were the 



own way ; for the pikes, muscalonge and customary victims of the pike, it might 



gars feed largely on shore birds, tilts or become a question with the sportsman 



sandpipers especially ; while many a as to which he would incline, depending 



loon, teal or dipper becomes a prey to mainly upon his proclivities as angler or 



the larger fishes, who incontinently turn hunter. As for loons, gulls, grebes, 



the tables upon them and swallow them hawks and kingfishers, which enliven our 



whole. Swallows, when flitting upon lakes and give them charm, I would 



the calm surface of lakes in summer, spare them all and grant the few fish 



are often caught on the wing, and small they catch ; for a wilderness without 



land birds sitting on branches which animal life is as desolate as a hearth 



overhang the shore are often picked off without a fire. Tenantless, ft is almost 



by ravenous pike, which leap 2 feet up- as a body without a soul. 



BREEDING WILD TURKEYS. 



By Mary C. Wilkie. 



I write my experiences with wild tur- from the woods, two being caught in a 



key raising believing they may be of in- wire fence before fully grown and the 



terest to those who have had to meet others hatched from a nest of eggs 



the same difficulties I have encountered, found on our farm. They have had to 



My breeding stock being so very wild be kept up all the time, that is confined 



has made matters more difficult, but I in my five-acre breeding lot. This is 



am hoping that their young will not be surrounded with a nine-foot fence made 



so wild and therefore less difficult to han- of two pieces of ordinary woven' wire, 



rile. All the breeders I now have came having the wires an inch or two apart 



