. Our wild fowl and waders . on and Migration of Wild Fowl . . .161 (2) A Proposed Law for Breeders of Game ...... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPortrait of Author Frontispiece Facing Mallards in August vl The Ducks Paradise—Map 2 Young Mallards Going to Feeding Grounds . 10 A Lake Full of Ducks 14 Bluebills Sunning 16 Hatched in Connecticut 16 Young Mallards on a New Jersey Preserve ... 24 Wallace Evans Game Farm 30 Mallards Flushed on Rearing Ground .... 50 Interior Hatching House 52 Young Ducks Incubated by Electricity in New York . 56 Dinner Time 62 After Dinner—Young Mallards Returning to Lake . 6
. Our wild fowl and waders . on and Migration of Wild Fowl . . .161 (2) A Proposed Law for Breeders of Game ...... LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONSPortrait of Author Frontispiece Facing Mallards in August vl The Ducks Paradise—Map 2 Young Mallards Going to Feeding Grounds . 10 A Lake Full of Ducks 14 Bluebills Sunning 16 Hatched in Connecticut 16 Young Mallards on a New Jersey Preserve ... 24 Wallace Evans Game Farm 30 Mallards Flushed on Rearing Ground .... 50 Interior Hatching House 52 Young Ducks Incubated by Electricity in New York . 56 Dinner Time 62 After Dinner—Young Mallards Returning to Lake . 66Ducks at Lake Worth . . » . .68 Pin-tail Eggs 70 Wild Ducks in Central Park, New York ... 70 Egg-stealing Crow 80 Decoy Owl 82 Good Bag of Crows Shot Over a Decoy Owl ... 86 A Scare-fox 88 Bluebill Shot and Photographed by Bonnycastle Dale 98 Gamekeepers Cottage on an American Preserve . 106 A Market Gunner 126 Wild Geese in Central Park, New York . . 134 Woodcock 146 English Wild Fowler 156 Pin-tails 160. h a so aP O « a 1-5 aj INTRODUCTION f~T* HIS is the first book written for American readers ■■ on the practical conservation of game. It dealswith the methods of propagation and preservation whichare essential to make game abundant and to keep it plen-tiful in places where field sports are permitted. It isentirely different in plan and purpose from my earlierbooks. All of the American works on field sports describe thevarious methods of pursuit and destruction; althoughthey contain, usually, something about the habitat,breeding and food habits, and migration of game, theyare silent about the practical and profitable methods ofincreasing its numbers. The same may be said aboutour ornithologies and books on natural history. Thewriters often deplore the fact that the game birds arevanishing; they have insisted upon the enactment ofmany laws restricting sport, but they overlook the factthat such laws prevent the increase of game by is a disposition throu
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