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June, 1919 
FOREST AND STREAM 
FOREST-^STREAM 
FORTY-EIGHTH YEAR 
FOUNDERS OF THE AUDUBON SOCIETY 
GOVERNING BOARD: 
OEOBOE BIBD ORINNELL, New York, N. Y. 
CABL E. AKELEY, American Museum of Natural Hlstorj, New York 
FK ANK S, DA GGETT. Museum of Science, Los Angeles, Cal. 
EDMUND HELLER, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. 
0. HAR T MERRIAM, Biological Survey, Washington, D, C. 
WILFRED H. OSGOOD, Field Museum of Natural Historv. Chicago, III 
JOHN M. PHILLIPS, Pennsylvania Game Commission, Pittsburgh, Pa. 
CHARLES SHELDON, Washington. D. C. 
GEORGE SHIRAS. 3rd. Washington. D. C. 
william BRTTETTE. Editor 
JOHN P. HOLMAN, Associate Editor 
TOM WOOD, Manager 
Nine East Fortieth Street. New York City 
THE OBJECT OF THIS JOURNAL WILL BE TO 
atudioiLaly promote a healthful interest in outdoor rec- 
reation, and a refined taste for natural objects. 
August 14, 1873. 
NEW CANADIAN BIRD REFUGE 
'T’HE Dominion of Canada has long been famous for 
-*■ good game laws, well enforced, and more recently 
for active co-operation with the United States in 
the protection of migratory birds. Not all the Prov- 
inces have been equally advanced in this matter, but 
the sentiment of the Dominion as a whole is one to 
be appJauded by all English-speaking people on this 
Continent. 
The Parliament of the Province of Quebec has re- 
cently passed a protective law of great importance, 
which creates a vast reserve for sea birds, includ- 
ing Islands in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and in the 
Bay of Chaleurs. 
The Bird Rocks in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have 
been famous for many years, but increase of popu- 
lation has caused increased destruction of the birds 
and their eggs and has greatly reduced the numbers 
of sea fowl that used to draw their living from 
these waters. The areas included in this new reserve 
all lie within the County of Gaspe, long famous for 
its salmon, its caribou and its cod. One of them is 
Perce Rock, on the north coast of the Bay of Chal- 
eurs, where breed great numbers of herring gulls 
and cormorants. The cliffs of Bonaventure Island, 
a few miles from Perce, furnish resting places for 
colonies of gannets, with auks, puffins, guillemots, 
murres and kittiwakes. Then, there is the great 
colony at the Bird Rocks of the Magdalene Islands, 
which has always been so impressive to those who 
passed near it. Egging, killing the birds for fish bait 
and other destructive methods have greatly reduced 
this colony, the sight of which so astonished Audu- 
bon on his visit to Labrador in 1833. 
These refuges are to be under the administrative 
control of the Ministry of Fisheries, and the pro- 
visions of the law are stringent. It is forbidden to 
take or molest birds or their nests or eggs, or to 
carry a gun or hunting implements either by land 
or water within a mile of the localities indicated. 
Severe penalties are provided for infractions of the 
law. Its provisions include all migratory birds, so 
that this reserve is a refuge not only for sea fowl 
whose economic services are thought by many people 
to be negligible, but also for traveling wild fowl and 
insectivorous birds. 
This law was urged on the Quebec Parliament by 
the Hon. Honore Mercier, Minister of Fisheries, who 
made it clear that the Province of Quebec values 
these birds, not only for the part they perform in 
the scheme of nature, but also for their scientific 
interest and their natural beauty. 
By creating one of the largest bird reserves in the 
western Continent the Province of Quebec has 
erected a monument to its own wisdom which will 
not soon be forgotten. 
ATTACKS ON THE ANTELOPE 
■yHE prong-horned antelope, formerly the most 
abundant big game animal west of the Missis- 
sippi River, has now dwindled to a few pitiful rem- 
nants, scattered over different states and fast dis- 
appearing in the United States. In Mexico, on the 
other hand, antelope are about as numerous as they 
ever were. Efforts by sportsmen all over the land 
have procured, in practically all states, the enact- 
ment of statues protecting the antelope ; and private 
enterprise has established three or four separate 
herds whose future still hangs in the balance. 
Yet, frequent efforts are made to break do\\m the 
laws protecting antelope. A bill, recently brought 
before the Legislature of the State of Nevada, pro- 
vided that the County Commissioners should have 
authority to declare an open season on antelope 
for a limited time in certain counties in which they 
occur in some numbers, and in his last report the 
Game Warden of Wyoming recommended that per- 
mission should be given to kill a certain number of 
buck antelope in that state, alleging as one reason 
for getting rid of these antelope that the old males 
kill the young. 
It is greatly to the credit of the Legislature of 
Nevada that the bill there introduced, having been 
referred to the Fish and Game Committee of the 
Legislature, was pigeon holed by the Committ^ 
and never reported on. That antelope are too 
numerous anywhere is an implication by the people 
standing behind the Nevada bill, which is palpably 
untrue, and the statement of the Wyoming Game 
Warden that buck antelope kill the young is a reason 
advanced to promote vicious legislation by a man 
who has not informed himself as to knowm facts. 
If the sportsman public rejoices in the good sense 
of the Nevada Legislature they may also regret the 
attitude of the Wyoming Game Warden. 
SCIENTISTS DISCOVER RARE FISH 
p\ EEP in the seclusion of the Long Beach Labora- 
^ tory, on the coast of California, with nothing 
but the murmur of the ocean to disturb their opera- 
tions, Will F. Thompson and Elmer Higgins, well- 
known fish experts, have been busy identifying 
specimens of various fishes secured by the new 
patrol boat “Albacore,” which is making a scientific 
investigation of the Southern California fisheries. 
For example, one rare fish which recently came into 
the laboratory was a specimen of Tetragonurus 
cuvieri Risso, which these experts termed “The 
Squarehead” for lack of a better name. This fish 
was found near Catalina, and is, according to re- 
ports, the first of its kind found in North Pacific 
waters. Although we hear this species mentioned as 
