BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
181 
We are issuing this final warning as a matter of duty 
to the people of the West, for the benefit of their sons and 
grandsons, and also as a duty to the harassed and perse¬ 
cuted birds that can not speak for themselves. It has be¬ 
come a case of now or never. When we have put the cold 
facts fully before the people of the western states, our 
duty is done. If they are too indifferent to the future, too 
eager to kill, and too neglectful of their plain duty to pos¬ 
terity to arouse and resolutely take action, the loss will not 
in any degree be chargeable to the Permanent Wild Life 
Protection Fund. 
The legislatures of nearly all the western states will sit 
during January and February, 1917. After that they will 
not reassemble for two years; which will be 1919. The time 
to act is NOW ; for the way things are going in some states, 
two more years may easily prove fatal to the grouse species 
in those states. Stop for a moment and think what the 
automobiles, good roads, pump and automatic guns, wicked 
open seasons and sinfully large bag limits are doing to the 
harassed remnants of sage, sharp-tail and pinnated grouse 
each season! 
Your only time and opportunity for making a choice be¬ 
tween saving and exterminating your finest upland game 
birds is NOW. 
THE DEADLY AUTOMOBILE. 
During the past five years there has arisen a new enemy 
to wild life, a hydra-headed monster more deadly than 
would be ten thousand dragons of St. George. 
As a new factor of destructiveness to game birds and 
deer, the automobiles of America bid fair to become almost 
as deadly as the pump and automatic shot-guns. I estimate 
that on all upland game birds, shore birds, many of the in¬ 
terior ducks, and all deer, they have increased the dangers 
to wild life, over the influence formerly exerted by horse- 
drawn vehicles, at least 300 per cent. 
