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[July 23, 1910. 
some part of its victim has been laid bare for 
it and relaxes its hold somewhat while tearing 
pieces out of the stale meat. The prey may then 
with a little care be released without suffering 
any damage to its body or limbs. Hawks when 
first taken out will not pursue any and every bird 
you may choose to fly them at. If, for instance, 
the bird has been trained on other birds of dull 
plumage, it will not chase anything with white 
plumage. The only thing to do is to get some¬ 
thing that has white feathers, whether dead or 
alive, and let the hawk catch it; in the former 
case throwing up the dead specimen in the air 
and flying the hawk at it will answer the pur¬ 
pose well enough. After a few experiences of 
this sort the hawk will soon take to pursuing 
birds of any color, which are small enough for 
it to attack. When talking of the flight of the 
various birds which are caught by hawks, native 
falconers use the expression tez par to denote 
a bird which flies swiftly while ganda par signi¬ 
fies a sluggish flier. The word ganda really 
means rotten, and may be heard in connection 
with eggs.-—Asian. 
Game Legislation of the 61st Congress 
Washington, July 16 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Notwithstanding the unusual amount 
of general legislation enacted thus far by the 
sixty-first congress, the measures affecting game 
have been remarkably few. The total number 
of bills introduced during the two sessions was 
nearly 36,000. This mass of proposed legislation 
included less than a score of bills in which game 
protection was directly or indirectly concerned, 
and most of these failed to become laws. The 
tariff act, adopted at the first session (the special 
session of last year), contained a provision in¬ 
creasing the duty on feathers for millinery pur¬ 
poses from 15 per cent, for crude and 35 per 
cent, for manufactured feathers, to 20 and 60 
per cent., respectively, and another re-enacting 
the law regulating importation of eggs of game 
birds for propagation and transferring its ad¬ 
ministration from the Secretary of Agriculture 
to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
GENERAL ACTS. 
At the second session the most important bill 
relating to game protection was that “to establish 
the Glacier National Park in the Rocky Moun¬ 
tains south of the international boundary line” 
(Pub. N0.171), which became a law on May 11, 
1910. This new park has been described at length 
in the reports of the committees (S. Report No. 
106 and H. R. Report No. 767), and also in vari¬ 
ous articles in Forest and Stream during the 
past few years, and lately in Vol. LXXIV., p. 
807, May 21, and p. 972, June 18, 1910. Another 
measure, which affected game interests in several 
particulars, although this fact does not appear in 
the title, is “an act to protect the seal fisheries 
of Alaska and for other purposes” (Pub. No. 
146), approved April 21, 1910. Under this meas¬ 
ure all the islands in the Pribilof group in Ber¬ 
ing Sea were made a Government reservation in 
charge of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, 
thus transferring to this department the two 
islands in the Pribilof Bird Reservation, for¬ 
merly under the charge of the Department of 
Agriculture. Under Section 4, of the same 
measure, the protection of fur-bearing animals 
in Alaska was transferred from the Secretary of 
the Treasury to the Secretary of Commerce and 
Labor. Regulations for the protection of such 
animals were issued on June 2, 1910, and in¬ 
cluded the first close season thus far provided 
for the black bear in Alaska. The large brown 
bears are still protected by the Alaska game law, 
but other bears under the clause “fur-bearing 
animals” are now protected by these regulations. 
An act “to authorize the President of the United 
States to make withdrawal of lands in certain 
cases,” which became a law in the closing days 
of the session, may prove an important measure 
for game protection, as it authorizes the Presi¬ 
dent to withdraw temporarily “any of the public 
lands of the United States and the Territory of 
Alaska, and reserve the same for water power 
sites, irrigation, classification of lands, or other 
public purposes, to be specified in the orders of 
withdrawals.” 
APPROPRIATIONS. 
Several of the appropriation bills carried spe¬ 
cial items for game protection. The Urgent De¬ 
ficiency Bill,' which became a law on Feb. 25, 
1910, carried an item of $7,700 for completing 
the fence and making necessary improvements on 
the National Bison Range in Montana. The 
Agricultural Appropriation Bill, under the appro¬ 
priations for the Biological Survey, carried the 
usual amounts of $7,000 for the maintenance of 
the bison range and other reservations for mam¬ 
mals and birds, and $9,420 for enforcement of 
the Lacey Act and the sections of the Criminal 
Code relating to interstate commerce in game. 
The Sundry Civil Bill contained items of $10,000 
for the protection of game in Alaska, $3,000 for 
the maintenance of the buffalo herd in the Yel¬ 
lowstone National Park (an increase of $500 
over the usual appropriation), and $13,000 for 
the protection of the recently established Glacier 
National Park. 
BILLS WHICH FAILED TO PASS. 
Among the many bills which failed to pass 
may be mentioned the following relating to game 
protection: 
S. 5629—To set apart certain lands in the State 
of Oregon as a public park, to be known as the 
Saddle Mountain National Park. 
S. 5750—To enlarge the Grand Canon game 
refuge [in Arizona], 
S. J. Res. 26—To establish in the State of 
Wyoming a winter game preserve. 
H. R. 10276—To protect migratory birds of the 
United States. 
PI. R. 10942—To create a game preserve [in 
Oregon] to be known as the Siletz Elk Preserve. 
H. R. 11742—For the protection of wild ani¬ 
mals in the Coronado National Forest [Arizona], 
H. R. 11934—To provide for reserving from 
the public lands in the State of Oregon [the Mt. 
Jefferson National Park] as a public park, etc. 
H. R. 18585—Providing for the protection of 
Antwerp or homing pigeons when in an inter¬ 
state flight. 
H. R. 23261—To import wild and domestic ani¬ 
mals in the United States. 
Apparently none of these measures have as yet 
been reported by the committees to which they 
were referred, but if they should be reported 
early next session, they may receive favorable 
consideration before Congress finally adjourns on 
March 4, 1911. T. S. Palmer. 
All the game laws of the United States and 
Canada, revised to date and now in force, are 
given in the Game Laws in Brief. See adv. 
Massachusetts Legislature. 
Boston, Mass., July 7. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Notwithstanding the fact that a hun¬ 
dred bills on fish and game subjects were re¬ 
ferred to the legislative committee on fisheries 
and game at the last session of the Massachu¬ 
setts Legislature, the number of changes and 
additions was comparatively small as appears by 
the poster for 1910 which has just been issued 
by the commissioners. The trout season will 
open on April 1 instead of April 15. The clos¬ 
ing date is July 31. The anglers in the western 
counties regard April 1 as too early for, the 
opening, but want the season extended through 
August as an attraction to summer visitors. 
The practice of “torching *for herring,” which 
has become quite common along our coast of 
late years, has aroused the citizens of the south 
shore to active opposition, and they have suc¬ 
ceeded in securing a law by which the practice 
can be stopped or regulated by the selectmen of 
Cohasset, Scituate, Duxbury and Plymouth. 
The phraseology of the law on upland birds 
was improved in clearness by stating that the 
open season “shall begin on the 15th of October 
and shall end with the 15th of November.” This 
removes all doubt about the day first mentioned 
as well as the last. 
The law which prohibits shooting from motor 
boats was changed so as not to apply to such 
boats “while at anchor.” 
The prohibition of the shooting of upland 
plover was extended to July 15, 1915. 
Hereafter gray squirrels may be killed dur¬ 
ing the open season for upland birds, but no 
one is permitted to kill more than fifteen in a 
season. 
For the prevention of stream pollution here¬ 
after, the commission may deal with all kinds 
of waste and refuse in precisely the same man¬ 
ner as with sawdust. But in every case arising 
under this law aggrieved parties have an appeal 
to the court. The authority of the commission 
should be absolute in these matters. The num¬ 
ber of salaried deputies has been increased by 
the addition of six new men. An examination 
of candidates has been held by the board, but I 
understand the appointments have not been made 
as yet. 
The appropriations for the fish and game de¬ 
partment are as follows: For compensation of 
the commissioners, $5,630; for traveling, printing 
annual report, etc., $4,075; for enforcement of 
laws, propagation and distribution of fish, birds, 
etc., and rent and maintenance of hatcheries, not 
more than $46,000; for stocking great ponds with 
food fish, not more than $500; for stocking 
brooks with food fish, not more than $100. 
The above does not include the various special 
appropriations for investigations of various sub¬ 
jects, nor the expense of the six additional 
salaried deputies. Prior to the appointment of 
Captain Collins as chairman it was not easy for 
the commission to secure an appropriation of 
even so small a sum as $14,000. 
In view of the large sum of money required 
to carry on the work of the board and the fact 
that the State has now on its hands for sale 
three almost worthless hatcheries, it is not 
strange that the Legislature was unwilling to 
appropriate $25,000 for the establishment of a 
new fish hatchery this year even though it is 
very much needed. Henry H. Kimball. 
