. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Pintail. Taken on Empire Gun Club Grounds, near Elkhorn, Monterey County SPRIGS QUITTING POND TEN Photo by the Author really counts upon wild ducks as an adjunct to the bill of fare? If "Sport," as now constituted, does not give over its insensate selfishness, or else turn to and raise its own birds for the slaughter, the generation about to be born will never know the sight of the vanishing River Ducks. But someone will say: "I
. The birds of California : a complete, scientific and popular account of the 580 species and subspecies of birds found in the state. Birds; Birds. The Pintail. Taken on Empire Gun Club Grounds, near Elkhorn, Monterey County SPRIGS QUITTING POND TEN Photo by the Author really counts upon wild ducks as an adjunct to the bill of fare? If "Sport," as now constituted, does not give over its insensate selfishness, or else turn to and raise its own birds for the slaughter, the generation about to be born will never know the sight of the vanishing River Ducks. But someone will say: "I have seen hundreds of ducks at such and such a ; Yes, but your grandfather saw hundreds of thousands of ducks at the same place. We are talking of tendencies and policies now, not of where a bag may possibly be secured today. I repeat, that in spite of bag-limits and federal restrictions and the cessation of market shooting, unless there is an aggressive movement toward game propa- gation, we shall presently have to give over shooting for lack of anything to shoot. But who wants to shoot, anyhow? Come with me, and we will bag 5000 ducks of a dozen species with our double-barreled binoculars. If you must have trophies, remember that the best photographs of wild ducks have never been taken yet; nor (with humble apologies to the Major) the best pictures painted. The scene is Laguna Blanca (at its best, while thoroughgoing protection was in force); the date—shall we call it December 4th, 1912. A sheet of water containing less than thirty acres is bounded by heavy beds of tule, save where for a stretch of fifty yards a clear bank slopes gently to the water. A macadam road, some- what elevated above the reeds, runs round the whole, but at a distance sufficient to reassure the birds. The reeds themselves are full of the lesser birds, but on the shimmering surface of the water rest two or 1788. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may h
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