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MISSISSIPPI PERMITTING BIRD SLAUGHTER. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
I am just home from a two weeks’ quail shoot¬ 
ing trip in Mississippi. We had a very good 
time but the weather was very wet. We found 
the birds very plentiful but an utter disregard 
on the part of the natives of the observance of 
the game laws. Notwithstanding the bag limit 
is twenty per day they openly boast of their ex¬ 
cessive bags. Even a district attorney told of 
having killed 71 in a day—he and another friend. 
Then again the people of Mississippi don’t ap¬ 
preciate the value of bird life. They will learn 
sometime that they cannot have good agriculture 
without birds. Night hawks, white breasted 
swallows, meadow larks and other birds are 
regularly shot and every negro has a gun, three 
or four dogs and he is out hunting all the time. 
It is a wonder that there are any birds left and 
yet the woods were full of our summer birds. 
This was Middle Mississippi that I was in and 
I saw nearly all of our northern birds winter¬ 
ing there—the blue jay, the brown thrush and 
several other thrushes, the slate colored junco, 
hawks in great quantity and a variety of flickers, 
red-headed woodpeckers, wrens, black birds and 
grackle, and hundreds of small unknown, un¬ 
recognizable birds, so that the negro boy never 
lacked a live mark to shoot at. The only saving 
clause is the high price of ammunition and the 
low price of cotton. 
Old Guard. 
ONE ON SOMEBODY. 
We have received a bill of fare, in use at a 
stylish downtown eating establishment, which has 
to him as wild pigeon was a Bob White quail, 
and rare birds. The person who mailed us the 
bill of fare has written on it that the bird served 
management of this famous eating establish¬ 
ment was overlooking a chance of securing a 
large sum of money by cooking such high-priced 
have been extinct for many years, and as much 
as $S,ooo reward has been offered for a single 
live specimen. It would seem as though the 
upon it the significant words, “Real wild pigeon, 
roasted and stuffed with chestnuts.” The price 
is moderately placed at 85 cents. Wild pigeons 
and he inquires about the whereabouts of the 
local deputy game wardens and suggests that 
they visit the corner of Seventh and St. Charles 
Streets and see if they can see any wild pigeons 
flying about that locality.— St. Louis Gl. Democrat. 
