Nov. 4, 1911.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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SHORE BIRDS. 
Shore birds, like the ducks and other wild¬ 
fowl, used to be more plentiful on Long Island 
coast than they are at present. With the 
gradual killing off of great flocks of wildfowl 
gunners turned their attention to the smaller 
beach and shore birds, with the result that the 
Department of Agriculture called attention last 
year to this fact, and asked the question: “Is 
the present remnant of the North American 
shore birds to be preserved?” 
The agitation has been kept up, and it was 
only a few months ago that a Government re¬ 
port referred to these birds as “our vanishing 
shore birds.” 
On Long Island the custom has been to tele¬ 
phone to gunners when the birds have come in, 
and the gunners have come in such droves 
that there is only a remnant now of the great 
flocks that inhabited the south shore. Here 
and there along Great South Bay there are 
plover, curlew, jacksnipe and rail. Half a dozen 
years ago these birds could be killed between 
Coney Island and Rockaway. 
James Wilson, Secretary of Agriculture, had 
one of his assistants—W. L. McAtee—look into 
the situation, and last spring Mr. Wilson ap¬ 
proved Mr. McAtee’s findings that shore birds 
have been hunted until only a remnant of their 
once vast numbers is left. Their limited powers 
of reproduction, coupled with the natural vi¬ 
cissitudes of the breeding period, make their 
increase slow and peculiarly exposed them to 
danger of extermination. 
In the way of protection a beginning has 
been made, and a continuous close season until 
1915 has been established for the following 
birds: The killdeer, in Massachusetts and 
Louisiana; the upland plover, in Massachusetts 
and Vermont, and the piping plover, in Massa¬ 
chusetts. But, considering the needs and value 
of these birds, this modicum of protection is 
small, indeed. 
The killdeer, upland plover, and the piping 
plover are not the only ones that should be 
exempt from persecution, for all the shore birds 
of the United States are in great need of better 
protection. They should be protected, first, Mr. 
McAtee says, to save them from the danger 
of extermination, and, Mr. Wilson adds, “be¬ 
cause of their economic importance. So great, 
indeed, is their economic value that their reten¬ 
tion on the game list and their destruction by 
sportsmen is a serious loss to agriculture.”— 
New York Times. 
KILLS BIG TARPON. 
Capt. C. C. Pettit, of Galveston, Tex., went 
out into the bay on Sept. 18 in his twelve-foot 
skiff to cast for shrimp. At his first cast he 
scared up a six-foot tarpon which jumped and 
landed in the skiff, knocking the oars and nets 
overboard. 
Captain Pettit drew his knife and for an hour 
the man and fish thrashed around in the litt.e 
boat, the captain jabbing the tarpon with his 
knife and the fish slapping with his tail. 
Finally, Captain Pettit cut the fish's spine, end¬ 
ing the struggle. The tarpon weighed 170 
pounds. Captain Pettit is sixty years old and 
weighs 160 pounds. He was severely bruised.— 
Evening Sun. 
“LAUDATOR TEMPORIS ACTI.” 
Yes, I tell in mournful numbers 
Fishing nowaday’s a dream, 
Though Piscator far from slumbers 
Rises' are not what they seem. 
Small enjoyment and much sorrow 
Is his destined end and way 
Who expects with each to-morrow 
Better baskets than to-day. 
Yet, let’s still be up and doing 
With a heart for any fate, 
Casting over—still pursuing 
Fish—with “every kind of bait.” 
Lives of fishers great remind us 
We may creel some “big ’uns” yet, 
But the days of “Auld Lang Syne,” sir 
No true angler can forget. 
—G. j. Cook in the Fishing Gazette. 
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