. Bird-lore . thrown on the screen,and phonograph records of their songs given simultaneously. Such programs areboth instructive to the audience and help-ful to a society. More Alien Depredation The accompanying photograph repre-sents the contents of an Italians pocketafter his capture at South Norwalk,Connecticut, one Sunday morning lastspring. It illustrates what would happenhere in the North if it were not for thework of the wardens. To show the per-sistency of the Italians in killing song-birds, I have but to mention one swampadjoining the farm of an Italian on theedge of a city, where for


. Bird-lore . thrown on the screen,and phonograph records of their songs given simultaneously. Such programs areboth instructive to the audience and help-ful to a society. More Alien Depredation The accompanying photograph repre-sents the contents of an Italians pocketafter his capture at South Norwalk,Connecticut, one Sunday morning lastspring. It illustrates what would happenhere in the North if it were not for thework of the wardens. To show the per-sistency of the Italians in killing song-birds, I have but to mention one swampadjoining the farm of an Italian on theedge of a city, where for the fourth yearrunning we have captured an Italianshooting small birds; and three years outof the four the culprit was stopping at thefarmers house, and each year was severelyfined. This summer I caught a man withtwo Juncos and one Goldfinch, showingthat nothing is too small for them. Edu-cation is to solve the problem through thechildren, but enough old ones are amongus, and new ones all the time coming, to. AN ITALIANS GAMK-BAG IN Flickers, two Chewinks, one Robin, one Hermit Thrush, one White-throated Sparrow, one FieldSparrow, one Goldfinch, red squirrel and a domestic Pigeon. He had ammunition enough to last all day. (7°) The Audubon Societies 71 be a serious menace to all forms of wildlife. The arm of the law, in the form ofthe game-warden, must still be busy. Wecaptured one Italian with two RhodeIsland Red Chickens he had shot.—Wilbur F. Smith, South Norwalk, Conn. Loss of Bird-Life in Forest Fires William B. Mershon, of Saginaw,Michigan, sends us a note from J. , a forest expert, that addsanother and very important reason forextreme care in preventing forest note follows: It may interest 3ou to know that Imade a game-survey last summer ofapproximately ten acres of green coverton the Au Sable River, along about thesame extent of burnt-over ground, andby conservative estimates based on thewild life found, allowing 5 cents each fo


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