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RHODE ISLAND: Little Rhody needs some good, small bag limits; for now she has none! She should enact a Bayne law, a Pennsylvania law against aliens, and a New Jersey law against the automatic and pump guns. She should stop killing the beautiful wood-duck, and gray squirrel. She should stop all spring shooting of waterfowl. SOUTH CAROLINA: She should save her game while she still has some to save.
This is a teal fly like thunder and are about as big as a grasshopper. We'll make our flock mostly of these. Those widgeon, there, wouldn't do us much good. Might put in a few sprig. They're a handsome duck, Bobby; but the most beautiful thing in feathers is the wood-duck. Probably won't get any of them to-morrow, though." Bobby worked eagerly.
Stop the sale of all native game, and the possession and transportation of game sold or intended for sale. In short, Enact a Bayne law. Re-establish a game warden system. In legally permitting the slaughter of the robin, red-winged blackbird, dove, grosbeak, wood-duck and gull the state of Louisiana is very culpable.
Breakfast was on the table when they got there black tea, produced from Harry's magazine of stores, rich cream, hot bread, and Goshen butter eggs in abundance, boiled, roasted, fried with ham an omelet au fines herbes, no inconsiderable token of Tim's culinary skill a cold round of spiced beef, and last, not least, a dish of wood-duck hot from the gridiron.
KANSAS: To all of those named in my previous list that are not actually extinct, I might add the prairie hen, the lesser prairie hen, as well as the prairie sharp-tailed grouse and the wood-duck. Such water birds as the avocets, godwits, greater yellow-legs, long-billed curlew and Eskimo curlew are becoming very rare.
While Archer, who had gone forth with Garry only in the canoe, had picked up half a dozen wood-duck, two or three of the large yellow-legs, a little bittern, known by a far less elegant appellative throughout the country, and thirteen English snipe.
In 1912, New Jersey is spending $30,000 in trying to restock her birdless covers with foreign game birds and quail. In brief, here are the imperative duties of New Jersey: Provide eight-year close seasons for quail, ruffed grouse, woodcock, snipe, all shore birds and the wood-duck. Prohibit the sale of all native wild game; but promote the sale of preserve-bred game.
Long ago the U.S. Biological Survey sounded a general alarm for this species by the issue of a special bulletin regarding its disappearance, and advising its protection by long close seasons. To their everlasting honor, eight states responded, by the enactment of long close-season laws. This, is the And how is it with the other states that number the wood-duck in their avian faunas?
"A still smaller species, also noted for its brilliant plumage, inhabits the extreme north of both continents. This is the `harlequin-duck; or, as the early colonists term it, the `lord. The wood-duck is so called from the fact of its making its nest in hollow trees, and roosting occasionally on the branches.
MAINE: Wood-duck, upland plover, purple martin, house wren, pileated woodpecker, bald eagle, yellow-legs, great blue heron, Canada goose, redhead and canvasback duck. Puffin, Leach's petrel, eider duck, laughing gull, great blue heron, fish-hawk and bald eagle. MARYLAND: Curlew, pileated woodpecker, summer duck, snowy heron. No record of sandhill crane for the last 35 years.
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