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Identifier: americangamebird00grin (find matches)
Title: American game-bird shooting
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Grinnell, George Bird, 1849-1938
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting
Publisher: New York, Forest and stream publishing company
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, Arkansas, Missouri and Texas. Merriamsturkey is said to be almost extinct in Colorado, but isstill abundant in Arizona and New Mexico. That thereshould be occasional outlying colonies of a few birdsin Iowa and Nebraska, such as Mr. Griswold is toldof, seems very surprising, but such colonies cannot lastlong unless protected by the owners of the land onwhich they live. The turkey, grandest of game birds, has been ex-terminated over much of its former range. Great insize, and valuable for food, he is an object of pursuitwherever found. So, throughout the farming countryof the North and West the turkey is gone and gone for-ever. As the country is settled up, is his complete ex-termination to follow? Domesticated, he will alwayssurvive, but should we not strive to retain the old wildturkey of the eastern States in his untamed wild state,self-dependent, one of the typical and interesting in-habitants of our primitive forests and our far-stretch-ing southern plains? PART IIUPLAND SHOOTING
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touts OoatiiZ^itrttJ, 7 Bobwhite in Potato Field. From Bull. 21, Biological Survey, Dept. of Agriculture.By Permission. UPLAND SHOOTING WOODCOCK SHOOTING. Many years ago I contributed to the Century Maga-zine an article on this species, and from it, by the kindpermission of the Century Company, I extract a fewparagraphs on some details of the woodcock shootingof those days. Birds were plenty then, as wemay hope that some day they will be again, if wisemeasures are taken for their protection. The woodcock is not often seen and is quite con-tented to be overlooked. He has no brilliant song tocatch the ear, no gaudy plumes to attract the eye, nordoes he perform graceful evolutions high in the airin the broad glare of day. He is truly a modest fowl,and except at night, or during the twilight of morn-ing or evening, he does not willingly venture into sit-uations where he can be viewed by the casual wan-derer through field or wood. One who desires to makehis acquaintance must penetrate into

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