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where the "seven pointers” roamed, taking it 
quietly and slowly. Smash ! Crash! to my right. 
1 didn't shoot, though I found myself trying to 
put my front sight on a “white flag.” I recog¬ 
nized this disturber of the peace, a nice fat 
doe. Another half hour of stalking, and as I 
looked ahead, about 123 yards, I saw off through 
the trees my buck. He was feeding, and a mag¬ 
nificent pair of horns stretched away in the di¬ 
rection he was facing, as his nose was on the 
ground. Thin brush was between him and me, 
but I could see his tail flick to drive away an 
occasional fly. I got the ivory on him about 
what I judged was his fore shoulder, and when 
1 pulled he went down—and stayed there. 
I lit my pipe and walked over to him. When 
I pushed through the brush there lay a poor little 
yearling doe. Something seemed wrong. I was 
certain I saw the horns. Without touching her 
I walked back until I found my empty shell. I 
looked again. Sure enough there were the horns, 
but no deer. 
The little miss had been feeding with her 
spikes up against a windfall in such a position 
that a couple of small dead branches appeared 
to be horns. A clear case of circumstantial evi¬ 
dence. Result: Death to the little one and no 
head that year for me. L. L. Lawton. 
Hunting in California. 
BY GOLDEN GATE. 
The month of November has been ushered 
in by rains, and duck shooting is showing a de¬ 
cided improvement, especially in the interior 
where water was scarce at the opening of the 
season. The supply of home-bred birds is being 
supplemented by the arrival of great numbers 
of Northern birds among which are numbers 
of canvasbacks and geese. The best sport being- 
enjoyed at present seems to be in the San 
Joaquin Valley section in the vicinity of Los 
Banos, but the market hunters are now com¬ 
mencing to send shipments from Sacramento 
Valley points also. Good sport is to be had on 
the Suisun marshes and even on the marshes of 
San Francisco Bay. 
The supervisors of Alameda, Santa Clara 
and San Mateo counties have joined in passing- 
ordinances reducing the daily limit on rail from 
twenty to twelve and have prohibited the shoot¬ 
ing of these birds from boats or blinds. 
The deer season is now at an end, and from 
every section of the State reports are being re¬ 
ceived of the heavy killing made this year. 
Many suggestions are being received by the fish 
and game commissioners for changes in the game 
laws and a shorter and later season for deer is 
advocated by sportsmen generally. The present 
division of the State into districts is not en¬ 
tirely satisfactory, and new divisions are being 
planned, these being based upon the natural 
divisions of the State, climatic conditions, and 
the natural habitat of the leading species of 
wild game. Many changes in the opening and 
closing of the seasons on game will be recom¬ 
mended, and it is believed that many of these 
will be adopted by the Legislature which meets 
next January. 
The use of motorcycles as a means of con¬ 
veyance for deputies doing patrol duties has 
proved a great success here, and nine are now 
in the service of the Fish and Game Commission. 
With the automobile playing such an important 
part in the transportation of hunters, the motor¬ 
cycle has become a necessity. One machine has 
a record of 10,000 miles with an expense ac¬ 
count of one cent a mile. 
A. 0. U. Annual Meeting. 
The annual meeting of the American Orni¬ 
thologists' Lhiion was held in Cambridge, Mass., 
Nov. 12, 13 and 14. The Nuttall Ornithological 
Club entertained the Union four years ago. 
The scientific sessions were held in the Uni¬ 
versity Museum, Oxford street, Cambridge at 
10 A. m. and 2:30 p. m., Tuesday, Wednesday 
afternoon and Thursday in the geological lec¬ 
ture room (south entrance), and on Wednesday 
morning in the Nash lecture room (middle en¬ 
trance). The public was invited to attend the 
meetings. 
A committee of information, designated by 
red badges, was in attendance at the meetings. 
Luncheon was served to members of the Union 
at 1 p. m. each day by invitation of the Nuttall 
Ornithological Club. 
On Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 12, immedi¬ 
ately after the meeting, Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
F. Batchelder held a reception at their home. 
7 Kirkland street, for members and their friends. 
On Tuesday evening, Nov. 12, at 8 p. m., the 
men of the Union attended a reception at Wil¬ 
liam Brewster’s Museum. 
On Wednesday evening, Nov. 13, the mem¬ 
bers and their friends met at the usual subscrip¬ 
tion dinner. 
On Thursday afternoon, Nov. 14, at 4 p. m. 
the ladies of the Union were asked to see Mr. 
Brewster’s collection of birds at his museum. 
During the meeting the museum and library 
of the Boston Society of Natural History, cor¬ 
ner of Berkeley and Boylston streets, Boston, 
were open, free to members of the Union. 
For Friday, Nov. 15, Colonel and Mrs. John 
E. Thayer invited the members of the Union to 
their home and Museum at Lancaster, Mass. 
The officers were re-elected as follows: 
Frank M. Chapman, President; Dr. A. K. Fisher, 
Henry W. Henshaw, Vice-Presidents; Dr. Jona¬ 
than Dwight, Jr., Treasurer; John H. Sage, Sec¬ 
retary. 
The list of papers read on the various days 
follows: 
TUESDAY MORNING, NOV. 12 . 
Notes from Northern Labrador, A. C. Bent, 
Taunton, Mass. 
Some Labrador Notes, Charles W. Town¬ 
send, Boston, Mass. 
Notes on the Migrations and Habits of Some 
Long Island Shore Birds (lantern slides), Fran¬ 
cis Harper, College Point, N. Y., and John Tread¬ 
well Nichols, New York city. 
On the Present Status of the Bobolink or 
Rice-bird in the South (lantern slides), Edward 
Llowe Forbush, Westboro, Mass. 
Queer Nesting Sites of the House Wren 
(lantern slides), Wilbur F. Smith, South Nor¬ 
walk, Conn. 
A New Subspecies of Crossbill from New¬ 
foundland (specimens), A. C. Bent, Taunton, 
Mass. 
The Nest Life of the Sparrow Hawk, 
Althea R. Sherman, National, Iowa. 
TUESDAY AFTERNOON. 
Informal Notes on the Work of the Field 
Museum in South America, W. LI. Osgood. 
Further Observations on Colombian Bird 
Life (lantern slides), Frank M. Chapman, New 
York city. 
Propagation and Restoration of American 
Wildfowl (lantern slides), Herbert K. Job, East 
Haven, Conn. 
Notes on the Present Breeding Range of 
White Egrets in the United States (lantern 
slides), T. Gilbert Pearson, New York city. 
WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOV. 13. 
Passenger Pigeon: Report of the Year’s 
Work, C. F. Hodge, Worcester, Mass. 
Problem of Domesticating the Ruby-throated 
Hummingbird, Katherine E. Dolbear, Worces¬ 
ter, Mass. 
Notes on the Panama Thrush-Warbler, 
Hubert Lyman Clark, Cambridge, Mass. 
Report of Progress on the “Life Histories 
of North American Birds,” A. C. Bent, Taun¬ 
ton, Mass. 
The Value of Bird Study in a Limited Area, 
Alice Hall Walter, Providence, R. I. 
Some Notes from Sheepshead Bay and Man¬ 
hattan Beach, New York City, George E. Hjx, 
New York city. 
Concealing Action of the Bittern, Walter B. 
Barrows, East Lansing, Mich. 
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. 
What the American Bird Banding Associa¬ 
tion Has Accomplished the Past Year (lantern 
slides), Lloward LI. Cleaves, New Brighton, 
N. Y. 
A Biological Reconnaissance of the Okefi- 
nokee Swamp: The Birds (lantern slides), Al¬ 
bert H. Wright, Ithaca, N. Y., and Francis Har¬ 
per, College Point, N. Y. 
The Red-winged Blackbird: A Study in the 
Ecology of a Cat-tail Marsh (lantern slides), 
Arthur A. Allen, Ithaca, N. Y. 
THURSDAY MORNING, NOV. 14. 
1 he Flight of Birds, Alexander Forbes, 
Milton, Mass. 
The A. O. U. Check-List, Third Edition, 
Louis B. Bishop, New Haven, Conn. 
A Glimpse at the Home-Life of Lams mari¬ 
nes (lantern slides), Howard H. Cleaves, New 
Brighton, N. Y. 
The Present Status of the Heath Hen (lan¬ 
tern slides and specimens), George W. Field, 
Boston, Mass. 
Two Flycatchers of the Genus Empidonax 
New to the Fauna of South Carolina, Arthur T. 
Wayne, Mt. Pleasant, S. C. 
Eighteen Species of Birds New to the Pribi- 
lof Islands, Including Four New to North 
America, Barton W. Evermann, Washington, 
D. C. 
A Study of the Llouse Finch, W. H. Berg- 
told, Denver, Colo. 
The Status of the Extinct Meleagridce, R. W. 
Slnifeldt, Washington, D. C. 
The tremendous number of animals that 
are killed every year for their furs seems al¬ 
most incredible. In Russia alone during the 
past 12 months there were gathered the furs 
of 4,525.000 gray squirrels, 1,500.000 white hares, 
200.000 ermine and 12,250 sables—a total of 
6.237.250. 
“Who is so deaf or so blind as is he 
That willfully will neither hear nor see?” 
