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Continued from page 873. 
Indoor Rifle Championship. 
Intercity matches for the indoor rifle shooting cham¬ 
pionship of the United States, under the auspices of 
the National Rifle Association of America, will begin 
the week ending Dec. 26. 
Twenty teams will seek the championship this year, 
and these will be equally divided into two organiza¬ 
tions to be known as the Western and Eastern leagues. 
The winning teams of the two leagues will contest at 
the close of the schedule to decide the championship. 
Philadelphia Boston, Erie, Pa.; Portland, Me.; Man¬ 
chester, N. H.; Warren, Pa.; Birmingham, Ala.; Cleve¬ 
land, O., and Bridgeport and New Haven, Conn., will 
constitute the Eastern league. 
The Western league will be composed of ten cities 
west of the Mississippi River. St. Paul and Minne¬ 
apolis, Minn.; Milwaukee, Wis.; Helena and Butte, 
Mont.; Dickinson, N. D.; Madison, Minn.; Tacoma, 
Wash.; Bisbee, Ariz., and Adrian, Mich., will form this 
circuit. 
Each team will be represented by five riflemen, the 
shooting will be at 75 feet, and .22 caliber rifles will be 
used. 
whatever was possible for the starving elk. As 
all the available hay had been secured by the 
State and was being fed to the elk, attention 
was turned to other phases of the problem, such 
as the conditions responsible for lack of food, 
the number of elk that died from starvation, 
the possibility of securing an adequate supply of 
hay for next winter, the location of available 
sites for winter refuges, and the practicability 
of transferring elk to other localities. As an 
experiment two small herds were transferred to 
the National Bison Range and the Wichita Game 
Refuge, and careful consideration has been given 
to the feasibility of moving others to the Medi¬ 
cine Bow Mountains and the Big Horn Range 
next winter. In short, a thorough study is 
being made of the elk problem in all its phases, 
and a report on the subject will soon be ready. 
IMPORTATIONS. 
The necessity for constant watchfulness to 
prevent the introduction of foreign birds and 
mammals likely to become pests continues to 
be manifest. Three mongooses brought to New 
York in February, 1911, were promptly killed on 
board ship, and one mongoose and two flying 
foxes on exhibition at Kansas City were placed 
in the safe custody of zoological parks. 
The importation of European partridges, 
which last year dropped from 30,000 to 18,000, 
rose again to 36,507. While this increase seems 
to show a growth, or at least a continuance, of 
the popularity of this bird for stocking covers, 
yet from other sources it is evident that re¬ 
peated failures to acclimatize it have had a dis¬ 
couraging effect. It is important to note that 
10.000 of the partridges imported in the current 
year were consigned to one destination—the 
State of Iowa, which has undertaken the experi¬ 
ment of acclimatization on an unusually large 
scale. 
BIRD RESERVATIONS. 
One new bird reservation was established dur¬ 
ing the year on the Clear Lake Reservoir in 
the northern part of California, a few miles 
southeast of Klamath Lake. This reservation, 
which increased the total number to fifty-two, 
is an important breeding ground for birds. The 
question of stocking the reservoirs of Cold 
Springs, Oregon; Deer Flat and Minidoka, 
Idaho; and Belle Fourche, South Dakota, with 
fish was taken up with the Bureau of Fisheries, 
and it is probable that these reservations for 
birds will soon become reservations for fish as 
well. 
NATIONAL BISON RANGE. 
No damage was done to the National Bison 
Range, in Montana, by the forest fires of 1910, 
although they raged around it only a short dis¬ 
tance away. Fifteen buffalo calves were born 
in the spring of 1911, and three adult buffalo, 
presented by the American Bison Society, were 
placed on the range. Twelve antelope from the. 
Yellowstone National Park and seven elk from 
Jackson’s Hole, Wyoming, were added to the 
occupants of the range during the year. Four 
of the antelope died, and as no deer have been 
seen recently, the game on the range at the 
close of the year comprised sixty-six buffalo, 
eight antelope and seven elk. In this connec¬ 
tion it may be mentioned that the American 
Bison Society is taking steps in co-operation 
with this department to secure ground for an 
additional bison range in South Dakota. 
ALASKA. 
More rigid protection of deer and walrus in 
Alaska having been found necessary, new regu¬ 
lations were issued on July 29, 1910, shortening 
the hunting seasons, limiting the number of deer 
which may be killed by each hunter, preventing 
the sale of venison during 1911, and prohibiting 
all killing of walrus in Bristol Bay and south 
of the Kuskokwim River until 1912. Only five 
wardens were employed during the year, but this 
number will be augmented next year owing to 
an increase of $5,000 made by Congress in the 
appropriation for warden service in 1912. 
