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REYNARD OF THE 
GRAY CLOAK 
(Continucd from rage 19) 
hunter of bird life, nosing out nest- 
lings and helpless fledglings. It de- 
stroys chipmunks, squirrels, rabbits, 
and small game of all kinds, including 
great numbers of grouse, woodcock, 
and quail. Any gun club interested in 
planting pheasants can prove this. 
W itness the record of birds planted and 
the few adult cocks shot each fall. And 
not only this, having little fear of man, 
the gray brother is also more destruc- 
tive to farm poultry of all kinds. 
The toll out of my flock one summer 
was eighty-six hens and I don’t know 
how many small chicks. 
Twenty-five years ago there were 
few, if any, gray foxes in this part of 
New York state. There were more fox 
hunters than now, and not a single gray 
fox was reported. I well remember the 
first one I got. Many an old fox hunter 
thought it might be the famous silver- 
gray animal they had long hoped to 
shoot. But I had peeked into books 
and knew better. Soon after that the 
grays began to come. But it is a sig- 
| nificant fact that they did not begin. to 
appear here until the forests were 
about cut off, until the cut-over land 
had grown thick with brush and bram- 
bles. Gradually they increased and 
spread until they now fairly overrun 
this county and adjacent counties. 
And, with their coming, the abundance 
of small gamé began to disappear. I 
can remember when even market hunt- 
ers, often shooting 400 brace each in 
a season, did not make serious inroads 
on our grouse. But the gray fox has 
already threatened the family with ex- 
tinction. The grouse and the gray fox 
cannot both dwell in the same thicket. 
A nocturnal hunter in brush and open 
fields, it has also wiped out the quail 
here. A dweller of swamps, it has 
driven out the native woodcock. At 
home in the briary bush it has about 
accounted for the cotton tails. It has 
also wrought havoc with our small 
birds, such as the meadow lark, ground 
sparrows, oven bird, bobolink and other 
birds that nest on the ground. 
Game clubs all through this section 
of the state, trying to preserve and 
propagate small game, are making it 
hot for their assemblymen to get a 
good fat bounty for this rascal. 
In this part of New York there seem 
to be two families of the grays—a 
smaller animal which has migrated up 
from Jersey, and the larger gray from 
New England. This southern animal 
is not larger than a good-sized cat, 
and it looks and acts a great deal like 
pussy when it is hunting in the brush. 
Perhaps the two gray families readily 
It will Mentify you. 
cross. I do not know. Nobody does. 
Some even dispute that there are two 
families here. But there are a few of 
the big grays left. One flashed across 
an opening in the pheasant cover ahead 
of me last fall during a drive. An- 
other raced ahead of my car in the 
road one dark night. But the brood of 
little grays is ever on the increase. 
Just what we hunters are going to 
do about it we don’t know, except that, 
some way or other, we are going to 
make it worth while for the farmer 
boy to hunt gray foxes. Gun clubs 
have put it squarely up to the Conser- 
vation Commission. If the state or 
someone doesn’t put a good bounty on 
gray fox scalps soon, there won’t be 
any small game to conserve. It is silly 
to make close seasons just to fatten 
little foxes. It is sillier yet to plant 
pheasants to make a vulpine holiday. 
But what can you do with a wild 
animal that so readily adapts itself to 
any home? Drive a pair of gray foxes 
into a large swamp and they will con- 
sider the place ideal, no doubt brag- 
ging of its seclusion and safety and 
not even mention the dampness. They 
will nest in hollow trees, stumps or 
even a good dry bog in the swale. They 
tell me it is just as happy in the desert 
regions of the Southwest, where it 
doesn’t get its feet wet once a year. 
Here it seems to like the limestone 
cliffs, with their innumerable crevices 
and tumbled rock slides. But in other 
sections of the county, where there is 
no lime rock, it is just as much at 
home. Should neither tree nor rock crev- 
ice be available, Mrs. Fox will set up 
housekeeping in an enlarged woodchuck 
hole or an old red fox den. Stone 
walls will serve in a pinch, and for 
summer use what could be better than 
a good “nest” in a briar patch handy 
to the rabbit hunting. under the moon? 
As with all other foxes, the newly 
born cubs of the gray are blind and 
helpless. They consist of natural in- 
stincts and native cunning, with a few 
highly developed physical senses all 
wrapped up in mewing, blackish wool. 
Father and mother fox are very de- 
voted to their children. They ever 
stand between them and any danger, 
play with them, teach them the ways 
of the fox and feed them mighty well 
too! 
Not including the tall stories told by 
all professional fox hunters, much that 
is both interesting and authentic has 
been recorded about the cunning of the 
red fox. But, as any old fox hound 
would tell, if he could talk, one big gray 
fox has more stunts in his trick bag 
than half a dozen of its red cousins. 
Most any fox hunter can tell when his 
dogs have jumped a gray fox. Anyone 
in the vicinity can also tell when it is 
a gray fox by listening to the fox 
hunter! Often you can hear him yell- 
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