The Project Gutenberg eBook of Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation INDEX [A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [P] [Q] [R] [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [X] [Y] [Z] Abundance of wild life, 1 Accuracy, value of, in campaigning, 262 Acklen, J. H., 252 Actinomycosis, 82 , 83 Adams, Cyrus C., on the lion, 183 Adirondack State Park, 347 Adjutant, 123 Africa, big game of, 181 game preserves in, 364 , 367 rinderpest in, 83 "soon to be shot out", 206 African big game disappearing, 187 African game that needs exemption, 383 Agriculture, Department of, 208 , 212 Aigrette, 120 Akeley, C. E., 186 Alabama, 42 , 46 , 49 , 106 deer killed in, 172 laws of, 268 Alabama Game Commissioner, 252 Alaska, 46 brown bears of, 178 new laws needed in, 264 game of, 270 Sitka National Monument in, 344 Alaska—Yukon region, 157 Albatross , steamer, seals taken by, 40 Albatrosses, Laysan, 138 , 140 Alberta, 45 , 51 , 158 , 162 , 165 at fault on antelope-shooting, 351 laws of parks of, 352 Alden, M.P., Percy, 135 Algonquin National Park, 351 Aliens, game wardens killed by, 103 prohibited from owning firearms, 103 slaughter of song-birds by, 100 Altai Mountains of western China, 190 American Bison Society, 180 American Game Protective and Propagation Association, 257 , 395 "American Natural History" on hawks and owls, 224 , 395 American, North, Fish and Game Protective Association, 385 American private game preserves, 358 Amsterdam, 120 Animallai Hills to-day and in 1877, 188 "Animal Life in Africa," on status of settlers, 365 Animals, predatory, 73 caught by cats, 73 wild, may become nuisances, 234 Antelope, prong-horned, 2 attempts to transplant, 163 in Alberta, 51 in Montana, 287 in Nevada, 288 in Texas, 51 in Wyoming, 51 lumpy jaw in, 83 , 84 physical weakness of, 160 present status of, 159 preserve in Montana, 2 wrong to kill, 351 Anthony bill for migratory birds, 267 , 306 Antelopes, African, for the South, 242 Aphis devouring potato-tops, 213 Apple crop, losses on, 210 Aquarium, West Indian seals in, 39 Areas inhabitatcd by big game, 157 Argali, Siberian, 191 Arizona, 42 , 46 new laws needed in, 270 national monuments in, 344 Arizona elk exterminated, 35 Arkansas, 42 , 106 new laws needed in, 270 Army of Defense, 248 , 257 Army of Destruction, 54 , 59 Army worm, 221 Arnold, Craig D., 43 Ashe, T. J., 133 Asia, future of big game of, 188 Asiatic game that should be close-seasoned, 383 Askins, Charles, article in Recreation by, 107 Association in Pennsylvania fighting Game Commission, 245 Association, Wool-Growers, fighting antelope preserve, 2 , 348 Astley, Hubert D., 94 Atkinson, George, 86 Atlanta Journal , 106 Audubon Societies, National Association of , 28 , 254 , 256 , 291 , 395 Auk, Great, 9 , 10 Austrians in Minnesota, 49 Australia, animal pests in, 331 , 332 game preserves in, 364 Automatic and pump shot-guns, 61 , 65 , 144 campaign against, won in New Jersey, 289 denounced by organizations, 152 use of, prohibited by law, 152 Automobile, use of, in hunting forbidden, 60 Automobiles detrimental to wild life, 293 Avare, Game Warden Henry, 49 , 159 , 287 Avery, Carlos, 341 Avery Island, La., robin slaughter at, 108 Avicultural Magazine , 94 Avocet, 230 Bag insects, 213 Bag limit, in Africa, 181 , 186 a delusion, 60 , 66 Alberta, 355 British Columbia, 356 Manitoba, 357 Saskatchewan, 357 Baird, Spencer F., 329 Baker, Frank, 180 Bancroft, W.F., 50 Barber, Charles, 52 Barren grounds of the Arctic regions, 157 Baynard, Oscar E., 28 Bayne law against sale of game in New York, 68 bill, 252 , 257 breeding game under, 370 genesis of, 307 Beal, F.E.L., 222 Bear, black, in South Carolina, 150 , 179 grizzly, ethics of hunting the, 176 almost gone from United States, 178 California grizzly, 41 Bears, Alaskan brown, 178 alleged damages by, 178 grizzly, bag limit demanded on, 356 in Yellowstone Park, estimated, 336 killed by Forestry Bureau, 70 of Yellowstone Park, 313 Beard, Daniel C. cartoon by, 55 on bird destruction, 77 Beaver in New Brunswick, 52 Bedford, Duke of, David's deer saved by, 36 Beebe, C. William, 69 , 93 , 115 , 192 chapter written by, 195 Bell, Rudolph, 102 Bell, W.B., 44 , 50 Berlin feather trade, 120 Beyer, G.E., 48 Big Horn Game Preserve, 349 Biological Survey, 388 on duck disease, 87 work of, 249 on wood-duck, 28 Biology, Elementary, by Peabody and Hunt, 376 Bird, Charles S., 343 Bird boxes distributed by J.M. Phillips, 381 Bird Day in various states, 378 Bird Refuges, National, full list of, 345 Birds, becoming extinct in North America, 17 feeding in winter, 227 killed by cats, 73 by dogs, 76 by foxes, 332 by mongoose, 333 by negroes, 105 by telephone wires, 77 by wild animals, 77 destruction of, in Far East, 195 extinct, 9 , 15 food habits of certain, 218 extinct in North America, 7 in distress, 82 killed in New York City, 101 list of, that devour codling moth, 215 threatened with extermination, 18 Bird skins purchased in London, 116 , 135 Bishop, Dr. Louis B., 98 Bison, American, now living, 180 last of Colorado, killed, 69 , 272 Yellowstone Park, 337 wild, in Yellowstone Park, 336 value of, 2 Bison herd, Wichita National, 179 Bison ranges created, 249 Bison ranges, National: in United States, 180 in Canada, 180 Bison Society, American, 395 proposes National herd, 342 Beaman, D.C., 273 Blackbird, Crow, 222 Blackbirds, destroy cotton-boll weevil, 217 killed as "game", 105 Black-Snake, Pilot, 81 Blair, Dr. W. Reid, 84 , 85 , 86 Blaubok, extinct, 35 Blauvelt, George A., 251 , 281 Blesbok in Cape Colony, 185 Blinding decoy birds, 12 , 97 Blooming Grove Park, 359 Bluebirds killed by cold weather, 9 Blue Mountain Forest Association, 343 Bontebok in Cape Colony, 185 Bob-White, food habits of, 219 Boone and Crockett Club, 152 , 161 , 256 , 383 , 395 Boston Society of Natural History, 390 Bowdish, B.S., 50 Boxes for birds distributed, 381 Boy Scouts of America, appeal to, 32 Bradley, Guy M., killed by a plume-hunter, 26 , 27 Brazil, birds' plumage from, 122 Breeding, ducks in captivity, 373 game and fur in captivity, 369 , 374 Breeding wild animals need seclusion, 322 Brett, Lieut.-Col. L.M., animal census from, 336 Brewster, William, 24 , 43 , 48 Brimley, H.H. and C.S., 44 , 50 Bringing back birds and game, 313 , 323 vanishing species, 322 British Columbia, 45 , 51 , 157 , 158 , 162 , 165 game conditions in, 356 game preserves in, 353 British East Africa, remarkable bag "limit" in, 181 , 186 Bronx River, ducks killed by pollution of, 92 Brooklyn Institute, 390 Brooks, Earle A., 51 Brown, William Harvey, at Salisbury, 184 Brown, William P., 51 Bryan, W.A., 137 , 139 Buckland, James, 125 , 135 , 136 Buckskin Mountain, 343 Buffalo Academy of Sciences, 390 Buffalo in Cape Colony, 185 Buffalo, American, now living, 180 see Bison Buffalo Park, Alberta, 352 Bunting, Snow, 8 , 58 killed for food, 68 Burnham, John B., 251 , 252 , 257 , 290 portrait of, 251 Burtch, Verdi., 93 Bustard being exterminated, 119 Butcher bird, 80 Butler, A.L., 247 Butler, Amos W., 43 , 47 California, 42 , 47 , 59 , 65 , 106 , 165 grizzlies, 178 new laws needed in, 271 Academy of Sciences, 391 National monuments of, 344 State Game Preserve, 349 University of, 390 Call, San Francisco, 263 Calliste, Superb, 115 Camp-Fire Club of America, 152 , 256 , 353 , 384 code of ethics of, 384 Camp-Fire Club of Detroit, 338 , 385 Campion, C, 14 Camp laborers as game destroyers, 71 Canada, 45 game laws and preserves in, 350 Cape Province, South Africa, big game in, 185 Carbonell, E.T., 46 Caribou, 83 in Nova Scotia, 52 in general, status of, 173 killed for their tongues, 46 , 269 Osborn, 357 slaughtered and wasted, in Quebec, 70 Caribou disease, 83 Carleton, L.T., 283 Carnegie Institute of Washington, 391 Carrick, Penn., bird day at, 379 Cartridges, estimated annual production of, 150 Cat and its victim, 76 Cats, birds destroyed by, 73 , 81 Caterpillars eaten by shore-birds, 231 Caton, John Dean, 359 Cause, choice of a, 258 Cedar Bird, eaten as "game", 106 Cereals, losses on, from insects, 212 Corbin bison herd, 342 Chambers, Fred. W., 51 Chamois, slaughter of protected, in Switzerland, 321 Chapman, Arthur., 45 , 50 Charles, Salem D., 253 Cheney, Henry W., 240 Chicago Academy of Sciences, 391 Chicago as a plague-spot for sale of game, 280 devours Norway ptarmigan, 69 University of, 392 Chimpanzee, 187 China barren of wild life, 192 raked and scraped for ducks, 69 Chinch-bug, 209 , 210 Chinese now buyers of game, 198 Christian, L.T., 51 Cigarette beetle, 212 Cincinnati Zoological Gardens, 11 Clark, J.C., 50 Clark, W.A., 231 Claxton, Dr. P.P., on Tennessee robin slaughter, 107 Clergy, Italian, duty of, 103 Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., 371 Close season law in New York, 90 Close season, at discretion, 89 long, needed, 62 Clubs opposed to automatic guns, 153 Coccidiosus, intestinal, in ducks, 87 Cock of the Rock, 113 Codling moth, birds that devour the, 215 Cold storage of game in New York, 68 Cold storage warehouses and steamers in China, 200 Collier's Weekly, 263 Colonist, Victoria, 263 Colorado, 42 , 47 , 59 , 71 new laws needed in, 272 game-breeding laws of, 369 national monuments of, 344 Comity between states, lack of, 266 Commission, New York Conservation, 252 Commissions, State Game, 250 Comparative Zoology, Museum of, 390 Condor, California, 21 , 22 , 119 , 123 Conference of Powers on African wild life, 364 Congo Free State, 187 Congress, 267 acts of, for wild life, 249 creates National Bison Range, 342 , 343 creates National monuments, 344 saves the starving elk, 338 Connaught National Park, 355 Connecticut, 42 , 47 , 59 , 106 new laws needed in, 275 protects wood-duck, 28 Conrad bison herd, 342 Conrad, Charles H., 340 Corbin, Austin, 360 deer sold by, 371 Cormorant, Pallas, 9 , 11 Corn and hogs, and wild life protection, 281 Corn, losses on, 208 , 212 Corn-root worm, 208 Cornell University, 392 Cotton-boll weevil, 215 , 216 , 221 Cotton, loss on, 210 , 212 , 215 rise in price of, affects birds, 110 Cougars destroyed in British Columbia, 356 Country Life in America, 372 Cox, J.D., 50 Coyotes, 53 destroyed, 79 destroyed in British Columbia, 356 Crandall, L.S., on breeding mallard duck, 373 Cranes in Alberta, 355 Crane, Whooping, 18 Crater Lake National Park, 343 Crayfishes eaten by shore-birds, 231 Credit for work done, 264 Cree Indians, 8 Crow, ducklings destroyed by, 80 Crow, F.L., robins slaughtered by, 106 Cruelty of "aigrette" hunters, 130 of albatross killers, 141 Cuppy, W.B., deer raised by, 171 Curculio, 210 Curlew, Eskimo, 9 , 14 , 228 long-billed, 18 Currituck County wild-fowl slaughter, 292 , 311 Currituck Sound, N.C., 64 , 134 Cuthbert Rookery, 131 Cut-worm, 209 , 221