. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . Geese andDucks of all kinds, the smaller Herons, the Plover, Snipeand nearly all birds. This disease was first noticed in the feed-ing grounds near or bordering the Great Salt Lake, and hasgradually increased and progressed until t
. A history of the game birds, wild-fowl and shore birds of Massachusetts and adjacent states : including those used for food which have disappeared since the settlement of the country, and those which are now hunted for food or sport, with observations on their former abundance and recent decrease in numbers; also the means for conserving those still in existence . Geese andDucks of all kinds, the smaller Herons, the Plover, Snipeand nearly all birds. This disease was first noticed in the feed-ing grounds near or bordering the Great Salt Lake, and hasgradually increased and progressed until the infected area in-cludes the entire Salt Lake valley, and the infection includespractically all the birds there. In a letter received by Forest and Stream from Dr. W. he says, our native birds are practically all refers to birds of all kinds; even chickens that were fedon the viscera of dead Ducks died by hundreds. The infectionis a diarrhoea or cholera, with a watery discharge from theeyes during its latter stages, and ends fatally in a few sick birds were put in clean pens and given clean foodand water most of them recovered.^ This disease is believed to be what is commonly known asDuck cholera, which often affects domesticated water-fowl Stewart, \V. R.: Forest and Stream, October 15, 1910, Vol. Ixxv, No. 16, pp. 616,
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