BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
215 
Here is a curious coincidence: 
In 1912, throughout the United States from coast to 
coast, with but very trifling exceptions, the slaughter of 
upland game birds was merrily proceeding. We can write 
on a visiting card the exceptions wherein the lid had been 
put on by the enactment of long close seasons. Here they 
are: 
LONG CLOSE SEASONS IN THE U. S. IN 1912. 
On Bobwhite Quail, in Arizona and N. Dakota. 
On the Heath Hen, in Massachusetts. 
On Pinnated Grouse, in Michigan and Missouri. 
On Ruffed Grouse, in Missouri and Nebraska. 
On all Grouse, in Oklahoma. 
With the exception of a few trifling county restrictions, 
according to the official records those were absolutely all! 
In January, 1913, the New York Zoological Society placed 
in the hands of every state legislator (and there were nearly 
7,000 of them), every governor, state game commissioner 
and state game warden, a campaign book entitled “Our 
Vanishing Wild Life,” which incidentally endeavored to 
raise Cain in all states about the sweeping destruction of 
our upland game birds, and particularly the grouse and 
quail. The slaughter of the bob-white came in for special 
attention, and it was unsparingly condemned. 
Today, twelve of our states and two Canadian provinces 
have stopped the killing of the bob-white! 
NO BOB-WHITES KILLED IN THESE STATES : 
Arizona 
Colorado 
Kansas 
Ohio 
Michigan 
New Mexico 
New York 
N. Dakota 
S. Dakota 
Utah 
Wisconsin 
Wyoming 
