Identifier: birdlore21nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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carce in the last year or two is amystery, but, nevertheless, it is true. A party of three, hunting squirrels forthree days in the mountainous part ofTucker County in September, reports see-ing but two Grouse. Another party ofthree, hunting in the mountains of Websterand Randolph counties six days in No-vember, reports seeing thirty-one Grouse.In both places there is an abundance ofwild grapes, gum berries, beech nuts andother food for the birds. A few years agoGrouse were plentiful in these same areas.Some hunters killed a few Grouse and itwas noticed that all the birds killed weremales. One hunter reported that he hadkilled his quota of Grouse this year.Among the twenty-tive birds was but onefemale. He had hunted over several coun-ties and noticed that there were very fewbirds this year, whereas he had found themplentiful last year. It was also noticedthat practically all the birds killed wereold birds. There seems to be a possibilil\ that alarge number of Grouse froze to death last
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ROY C. ANDREWSPresident Bronxville (N. Y.) Bird Club (78) The Audubon Societies 79 winter. The female birds might have per-ished in this way, thus accounting for moremales than females as well as the fewyoung birds this year.—A. J. Dadism.an,Morganlown, W. Va. Blackbirds and Meadowlarks inCalifornia With unswerving regularity, worthy ofa better cause, the question as to whetherMeadowlarks and Blackbirds are a nuis-ance in California continues to be raisedevery year. At the coming session of thelegislature, bills in all human probabilitjwill be introduced looking to the destruction of these birds. Somebody will againclaim that Blackbirds are eating the grainand Meadowlarks are destroying thegrape crop. The California Audubon Society, everwatchful for the interests of the wild birds,has just issued a six-page pamphlet con-taining testimonies of some ranchers tend-ing to show that the Meadowlark andBlackbird are of real economic value. Thiscircular deserves to be given wide publicityan

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