. Bird-lore . rfell an easy prey to wildcats, weasels andmink. A New Jersey writer for the NewYork Evening World of February 6,1912, reports: Rabbits, Pheasants,Grouse, Quail and Hungarian Partridgesare dying from hunger in Northern NewJersey, because of a coating of ice under-neath the snow, through which they can- not dig holes for food. Since the fall ofsnow, Saturday night and Sunday morn-ing, the hungry birds have become Morris county, yesterday, more thanone farmer fed game along with his barn-yard fowl. Wilbur CoUud, of Pine Brook,went to his barn at milking-time, yes-terday, an
. Bird-lore . rfell an easy prey to wildcats, weasels andmink. A New Jersey writer for the NewYork Evening World of February 6,1912, reports: Rabbits, Pheasants,Grouse, Quail and Hungarian Partridgesare dying from hunger in Northern NewJersey, because of a coating of ice under-neath the snow, through which they can- not dig holes for food. Since the fall ofsnow, Saturday night and Sunday morn-ing, the hungry birds have become Morris county, yesterday, more thanone farmer fed game along with his barn-yard fowl. Wilbur CoUud, of Pine Brook,went to his barn at milking-time, yes-terday, and found twenty Quail half-frozen under a cedar bush. They were soweak from lack of food that they couldnot fly, and Collud captured all. Half-starved rabbits, many almost as tame ashouse cats, are hiding under barns andhouses. Their burrows are frozen up. Allthe coves and marshes along Great SouthBay are frozen, and Wild Ducks, whichgather there in great numbers at thisseason, are starving. Gunners, yesterday,. CHARITY TO THE OUTDOOR POORFrom New York Evening Mail, January 17, 1912 The Audubon Societies 133 went out on a schooner loaded with birdfood. This was scattered about and wasgreedily consumed by the birds. Thestrange relief expedition found manyDucks that had perished. From Massachusetts came many alarm-ing reports. .\ dispatch from MarthasVineyard said: Whole flocks of game-birds are dying of starvation about theisland. The cold wave, the coldest experi-enced here in years, by freezing over thefeeding-grounds of the birds for such anextended period, has deprived them offood. The harbor of Edgartown is coveredwith three feet of solid ice, and hundredsof birds are dying there every day. It ispossible to walk in among a flock of WildBlack Ducks on the ice without disturbingthem in the least, an almost unheard ofproceeding. A message from Kansas states: Far-mers say that Quail will be scarce thisyear. They report that thousands ofQuail froze during the recent storm, andtha
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