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March and disappeared in November. That 
State was their last grand rendezvous and final 
nesting place in 1878. On that occasion the 
daily shipment from the single town of Hartford 
was 24,750 dozen. In 1869, and the two years 
following, the number shipped to New York and 
eastern cities reached twelve millions per annum. 
A great many were shipped alive to supply trap- 
shooting tournaments. In 1880 I saw a number 
in northern Minnesota, though but a handful 
compared to the grand total. They were scat- 
tering birds. Small flights have been observed 
of late years, each of which has been duly 
chronicled, questioned and discussed. Some are 
inclined to deplore their decimation and some 
grow sentimental, but when we recall the great 
damage done in the Middle West in the middle 
of the past century to forests and farms, we 
discover what a blessing their absence is in these 
days of bonanza farms and broad agriculture. 
The book is illustrated with colored portraits 
and half tones, and the methods employed to 
capture these birds during migration make most 
interesting reading. 
“Quebec Scrap Book” is published in Quebec 
by Frank Carrel, and is copiously illustrated 
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scenes. It is a woodsy book, and its author is 
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children of nature, the Huron Indians, have made 
him honorary grand chief of the tribe. The 
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Sir James M. Le Moine, the historian of Canada, 
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