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type, the stag with the big racks of antlers 
which adorn many of our old-fashioned 
homes, is completely extinct. All we have 
today in Pennsylvania is the smaller, or 
southern variety of the Virginian deer, and 
the Michigan deer brought in from the west 
by our energetic State game protector, Dr. 
J. H. Kalbfus. 
Of. game birds, the wild turkey was the 
largest and most interesting. If it had been 
given a ten-year closed season instead of 
two years, it might have been saved from 
extinction in Pennsylvania. It lost all it 
gained, and more, by the awful slaughter 
meted out on it last fall, and by the forest 
fires which burned over 240,000 acres of 
its favored nesting territory last spring. 
In consideration of last spring’s fires the 
closed season should have been extended. 
The wild pigeons, whose flights in the 
memory of our older citizens darkened the 
sun, are no more. Molested for years in 
their nesting grounds, they produced no 
young that escaped the hunters, the old 
birds died off in time, the race became ex¬ 
tinct. Yet at one time they were so nu¬ 
merous in New Lancaster, Miffln County, 
that they were slaughtered by the thou¬ 
sands to fertilize the gardens and feed to 
the hogs. 
A notable game bird was the heath-cock, 
slightly larger than our ruffed grouse or 
“pheasant.” It enjoyed no protection by 
law, and the last in Pennsylvania were 
killed in the northeastern counties about 
the time of the Civil War. They lingered 
on in the New Jersey pine barrens until 
about 1870. The grouse and small quail, 
robbed of their “policemen,” the foxes, 
wildcats, and catamounts, which destroyed 
the rats that eat their eggs, and annually 
harrassed by forest fires which drive them 
hither and thither, are becoming rapidly 
scarcer in Pennsylvania, despite all man¬ 
ner of laws aimed to protect them. 
All along our rivers and streams were 
formerly many handsome and useful wa¬ 
ter birds, such as herons, bitterns, king¬ 
fishers. These birds were the “police force” 
which protected the fish from their natural 
enemies. 
Without herons and other water birds 
it is hard to propagate fish. 
(To be continued.) 
