



examined the stomachs of about thirty goshawks 
last season; twenty-five of them contained grouse, 
three poultry, and two were empty. A pair of 
goshawks can take more grouse out of a patch 
of woodland in a few days than two or three 
good hunters could in the entire open season, I 
think the fox does the most damage to the hen 
bird on the nest and the young before they can 
fly. It will take quite a while to get the grouse 
back again like they were a year or two ago. 
Quail are about extinct and woodcock have 
been scarce here this fall. They are getting 
scarcer every season. It is only a matter of 
time before it will follow the woodduck, which 
is gone from this locality. Migrating birds like 
the woodcock and woodduck are shot from their 
breeding places in the north to their winter 
quarters in the south, so their numbers are thin- 
ned out more and more every year. 
Wm. DEARDEN. 
Boston, Dec. 2.—Editor Forest and Stream: 
I have noticed the discussion as to the scarcity 
of ruffed grouse this season, and the opinion in 
southeastern Massachusetts at least, is to the 
effect that the late winter and spring this year 
prevented the majority of the eggs hatching. 
The large part of the birds that have been 
killed in Bristol and Barnstable counties this 
season have been old birds, and it is very seldom 
one gets a chicken partridge. aor be 
GREEN LAKE Hore, N. J., 
Forest and Stream: I have read the different 
articles about the scarcity of grouse this season 
in our nearby States, and to-day I find in Forest 
AND STREAM of Nov. 7, 1903, the same conditions 
Dec. 16.—Editor 
prevailed in New Hampshire. The cutting of 
which I inclose: 
“Dunparton, N. H., Oct. 27, 1903.—For 
something over thirty years I have hunted a 
great deal each season through the covers in 
this section. Never were birds so scarce here 
as this year. There has been a most decided 
slump since last year. When the season of 1902 
closed there were a good many birds. I could 
then start ten or fifteen where it is now hard 
to find one or two. Last winter was not so 
severe; and even had the birds failed to breed 
last spring, there should be a fair number now. 
The covers here are about as near empty as they 
can be. I have killed five grouse, and a neigh- 
bor about the same. Every bird I have examined 
was in fine condition, no signs of wood ticks or 
any disease. It costs very little for ammunition 
this year. I have nearly worn out some twenty 
cartridges carrying them about in the pockets of 
my shooting coat. It looks to me as though there 
were not near birds enough about here for a 
breeding stock. 
“With the going of our ruffed grouse so wi ill 
our bird shooting. Migratory quail and im- 
ported pheasants have been tried and seem total 
failures. 
“We had better do one of two things; make 
it a close season for some years on all feathered 
game, or make it an open season at all times. 
The first would mean no shooting, the latter 
nothing to shoot. CMR STARK 
We had left over last season within a radius 
of four miles from here nearly 100 old birds, 
and this season there is not much more than 
half that number. Very few have been killed, 
which will be all the better for next season. I 
know of nine that are within a mile of the hotel, 
and I hope they will pull through. I have only 
killed three, and that is the only day I have 
hunted them. They were two cocks and one 
hen and were in as good condition as any I ever 
saw. 
Last summer in June I, had a brood of seven- 
teen within 200 yards of the barn, and saw them 
any number of times until they were as big as 
quail, and never saw anything of them after that 
time. 
Woodcock were very plentiful more than in 
any season for the past ten years. I know of 
over 200 that were killed in this vicinity. 
T. W. Morrey. 


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