. 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 . PLATE XXIX. A breeding pen for Bob-whites established on a Connecticut game farm.(Photograph by Herbert K. Job.). PLATE XXX. Group of Bob-whites in confir>ement. A part of the breeding stock at theConnecticut Agricultural Colleg
. 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 . PLATE XXIX. A breeding pen for Bob-whites established on a Connecticut game farm.(Photograph by Herbert K. Job.). PLATE XXX. Group of Bob-whites in confir>ement. A part of the breeding stock at theConnecticut Agricultural College, at Storrs, Conn. (Photograph byHerbert K. Job.) CONSERVATION OF GAME BIRDS. 563 live. Those who are kiUing the game of this country mustput back into the coverts at least two game birds for everyone which they kill if we are to continue to have game, andthis can be done only by means of artificial propagation ongame farms and preserves. Game Preserving. If we ask why game is still plentiful in the British Islesand some other long-settled European countries, the privategame preserve answers the question. Game is plentiful be-cause there are many persons interested in propagating, rear-ing, shooting and selling it, and many thousands of game-keepers are devoting their lives to it. The birds which formthe basis of game-bird preserving are the Ring-necked Pheasant,the English Pheasant and the Mallard Duck, all of which arenot much more difficult to rear than domestic pou
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