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EXTERMINATION STATE BY STATE 51
Everything [is threatened with extinction] save the dove, which is a migrating bird. Antelope nearly all gone.—(Col. O. C. Guessaz, San Antonio.)
Utah :
Our wild birds are well protected, and there are none that are threatened with
extinction. They are increasing.—(Fred. W. Chambers, State Game Warden, Salt Lake City.)
Vermont:
If all states afforded as good protection as does Vermont, none; but migrating birds
like woodcock are now threatened.—(John W. Tilcomb, State Game Warden, Lyn- donville.)
Virginia: Pheasants(raffedgrouse),wildturkeyandothergamebirdsarenearlyextinct. A
fewbearsremain,anddeerinsmallnumbersinremotesections. Infact,allanimals show great reduction in numbers, owing to cutting down forests, and constant gun- ning.—(L. T. Christian, Richmond.)
West Virginia:
Wood-duck, wild turkey, northern raven, dickcissel.—(Rev. Earle A. Brooks,
Weston.)
Wildturkeysareveryscarce,alsoducks. Doves,oncenumerous,nowalmostnil.
Eagles, except a few in remote fastnesses. Many native song-birds are retreating before the English sparrow.—(William Perry Brown, Glenville.)
Wood-duck and wild turkey.—(J. A. Viquesney, Belington.)
Wisconsin:
Double-crested cormorant, upland plover, white pelican, long-billed curlew, lesser
snow goose, Hudsonian curlew, sandhill crane, golden plover, woodcock, dowitcher and long-billed duck; spruce grouse, knot, prairie sharp-tailed grouse, marbled god- wit and bald eagle. All these, formerly alaundant, must now be called rare in Wis- consin.—(Prof. George E. Wagner, Madison.)
Common tern, knot, American white pelican, Hudsonian godwit, trumpeter swan, long-billed curlew, snowy heron, Hudsonian curlew, American avocet, prairie sharp- tailed grouse, dowitcher, passenger pigeon. Long-billed dowitcher and northern hairy woodpecker.—(Henry L. Ward, Milwaukee Public Museum.)
Wood-duck, ruddy duck, black mallard, grebe or hell-diver, tern and woodcock. (Fred. Gerhardt, Madison.)
Wyoming:
Sage grouse and sharp-tailed grouse are becoming extinct, both in Wyoming and
North Dakota. Sheridan and Johnson Counties (Wyoming) have sage grouse pro- tected until 1915. The miners (mostly foreigners) are out after rabbits at all sea- sons. To them everything that flies, walks or swims, large enough to be seen, is a "rabbit." They are even worse than the average sheep-herder, as he will seldom kill a bird brooding her young, but to one of those men, a wren or creeper looks like a turkey. Antelope, mountain sheep and grizzly bears are going, fast! The moose season opens in 1915, for a 30 days open season, then close season until 1920.
(Howard Eaton, Wolf.)
Sage grouse, blue grouse, curlew, sandhill crane, porcupine practically extinct;
wolverine and pine marten nearly all gone. —(S. N. Leek, Jackson's Hole.) CANADA
Alberta :
Swainson'sbuzzardandsandhillcranearenowpracticallyextinct. Elkandante-
lope will soon be as extinct as the buffalo.—(Arthur G. Wooley-Dod, Calgary.)
British Columbia:
Wild fowl are in the greatest danger in the southern part of the Province, especially
thewood-duck. Otherwisebirdsareincreasingratherthanotherwise,especiallythe