Dec. 24, 1910.] 
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brown figures scudding away in the brush. They 
were making for the thick.growth of firs up the 
hillside. It was useless to follow, so I turned 
'down the bank to the river. 
In the shallow water at the point of the island 
a blue heron had taken his stand. He was wait¬ 
ing for minnows. As I approached he jumped 
up with a disgusted squawk and was away. A 
band of foraging crows flapped lazily over the 
river. One dropped and picked up something 
from the surface. I heard a faint honking. Far 
overhead a wedge of geese were moving south¬ 
ward down the highway of the clouds. These, 
it in a cage where it is now very tame, and 
greedily eats canary seed. To let it go at this 
season would mean its certain death, and in fact 
if its wing is hopelessly injured it never can 
recover. 
Maine Fur Scarce. 
Although it is too early yet to know much 
about the trapping season, much complaint is 
heard in Maine of the scarcity of fur. Trappers 
complain that they have to work longer hours, 
travel further and give greater attention to set- 
There are antelope, too, in Northern Sonora, 
and on the desert, as in many other places the 
automobile has developed Into a game destroyer. 
The Sonora line is only about seventy miles to 
the south of Tucson and a run toward this 
border line is easily made. Any antelope killed 
to the south of Tucson is of course supposed 
to have been killed in Sonora. 
Mexico has no game laws, but if influence 
could be brought to bear on the government of 
that country to restrict the conditions under 
which the line could be crossed by hunters, it 
would do much to prevent the indiscriminate 
OREGON COVERS WHERE GROUSE, PHEASANTS AND QUAIL ARE ABUNDANT. 
From a photograph by Herman T. Bohlman. 
with the other sights of the day, kindled my 
imagination. I dipped the paddle deep and sped 
homeward with a satisfied spirit of a successful 
day’s hunt. William L. Finley. 
Captive Wild Birds in Connecticut. 
Early this month a little Acadian, or saw 
whet, owl flew into the lodge room of a society 
which was holding a meeting in Norwalk, Conn. 
It was captured there unhurt, and was soon 
turned over to Wilbur F. Smith, the game war¬ 
den of Fairfield county. The little bird was 
very tame and flew, when set free, about the 
room, alighting on the head of a red-tailed hawk 
that Warden Smith was engaged in mounting, 
where it sat and was photographed. 
A little later a horned lark, one of whose 
wings was broken and turned up over its back, 
was picked up in the streets of Norwalk. The 
man who found it took it in the house and kept 
ting their traps than they did in former years, 
when fur-bearing animals were more plentiful. 
As against this, of course, it must be said that 
less than half the amount of fur in numbers of 
individuals brings twice as much return. 
All the fur buyers declare that prices are too 
high, and that before long there must be a fall. 
In the meantime, however, furs are more in de¬ 
mand in the stores than ever before, and as 
long as the consuming public is willing to pay 
these extraordinary prices, the fur buyers of 
course will pay high prices to the trapper. 
Arizona Antelope. 
Herbert Brown, of Tucson, Ariz., tells us that 
he knows of only two small herds of antelope 
within thirty-five or forty miles of Tucson. He 
expresses the opinion that neither herd ever ap¬ 
proaches water, and feels doubtful as to the con¬ 
tinuance of these herds, if hunters are permitted 
to kill them. 
killing of antelope, deer and sheep. Just at pres¬ 
ent, owing to the unsettled political conditions, 
arms are not allowed to be taken into the coun¬ 
try, but when quiet is restored once more, this 
regulation will very likely be abrogated. 
While Arizona’s game laws are good, they are 
unfortunately not enforced. It would be a great 
thing if the President would set aside an area 
in one of the great forest reserves as a game 
refuge. This could probably be done now with¬ 
out difficulty. It may not be so easy when state¬ 
hood comes. It is understood that some time 
ago residents of Arizona petitioned the Presi¬ 
dent to set aside a game refuge in the South 
Cataline Mountains, but so far as known noth¬ 
ing of the sort has yet been done. 
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