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Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

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By William T. Hornaday
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Aimed at sounding an urgent alarm about widespread wildlife loss, the author documents the rapid decline and near-extermination of many regional birds, mammals, and fishes, blaming unregulated shooting, commercial plume and fur trades, habitat destruction, and inadequate laws. He supports these claims with statistics, case studies, maps, and photographs that highlight failures of existing protections and the influence of hunting interests on legislation. The work combines vivid accounts of depletion with practical prescriptions—stronger statutes, reserves and wardens, enforcement, and public education—framed as civic duties to preserve remaining wild life for future generations.



  1. Dakota, South, National monuments of, 344
  2. Dallas, Tex., disgraced by robin slaughter, 106
  3. Dalton and Young, 121
  4. Damages by deer in Vermont, 241
  5. David's deer, 8, 35
  6. Davis, C.B., narrative of elk slaughter, 70
  7. Davis, Capt. M.B., 45, 50
  8. Deadfall traps in Burma, 198
  9. Deer,
    1. accept protection, 313
    2. as a food supply, 234, 242
    3. cash value of, 241
    4. caught in Hudson River, 82
    5. damages to crops by, 240
    6. danger from, 371
    7. in New York City, 91
    8. killed in Louisiana, 5
    9. killed in Vermont since 1897, 240
    10. pamphlet on raising, 371
    11. possibilities in, 236
    12. present status of, 173
    13. slaughter in Montana, 287
    14. value of, 371
    15. black-tailed, 173
    16. European red, 372
    17. fallow, 372
    18. Indian sambar, 372
    19. red, of Europe, 372
    20. white-tailed, breeding, 369
    21. future of, 171
    22. in Iowa, 171
    23. killed in various states, 172
    24. portrait of, 237
    25. weights of, in Vermont, 371
  10. Defects in the protection of western big game, 302
  11. Defenders of wild life, 248
  12. Delaware, 42, 47, 106
    1. new laws needed in, 275
  13. Denmead, Talbott, 48
  14. Destroyers of wild life, 248
  15. Destruction, Army of, 54, 55, 59
  16. Detroit, Camp-Fire Club of, 338
  17. Dike, A.C., on cats, 75
  18. Dill, Homer R., 139, 140
  19. Dimock, Julian A., 131
  20. Diseases, destruction of wild life by, 82
  21. District of Columbia, new laws needed in, 276
  22. Ditmars, Raymond L., 81
  23. Dix, Governor John A., 134, 252, 290
  24. Dodo, 17, 28, 281
  25. Dogs as destroyers of birds, 76
  26. Doves
    1. killed and eaten as "game", 106
    2. killed 1909-10 in Louisiana, 5
  27. Dowitcher, 18, 31, 228, 230
  28. Downham, C.F., 124, 127, 129, 134
  29. Downtrodden hunters and anglers, 204
  30. Duck disease, 87
  31. Duck,
    1. Labrador, 9, 11
    2. mallard, breeding of, in captivity, 373
  32. Duck breeder, ducks killed by, 57
  33. Duck Mountain Game Preserve, 354
  34. Duck-shooting preserves, 361
  35. Ducks,
    1. accept protection, 317, 318
    2. in distress from severe winter, 92
    3. killed 1909-10 in Louisiana, 5
  36. Dutcher fund, Mary, 395
  37. Dutcher law against bird millinery, 115
  38. Dutcher, William, 28, 217, 256, 291
    1. denounces automatic guns, 151
  39. Duties of the hour, 53, 397
  40. Duty
    1. of nations, states and lawmakers, 266
    2. of zoologists, 386
  41. Dyche, Lewis Lindsay, 43, 389


  1. Eagle, golden,
    1. destroys sheep and goats, 78
    2. in British Columbia, 356
  2. Eagles being exterminated, 118, 119
  3. Ear-worm, 209
  4. Eastgate, Alfred, 44, 50
  5. Eaton, Howard, 51
  6. Edgell, George S., 360
  7. Egret,
    1. American, 26
    2. colonies in Florida, 28
    3. preserve of E.A. McIlhenny, 26
    4. snowy, 26
  8. Egrets,
    1. being exterminated, 119, 121, 122, 124, 126
    2. slaughter of, in Venezuela, 129
    3. young, starving on nest, 132
  9. Eland in Cape Colony, 185
  10. Elephant, Congo Pygmy, 187
  11. Elephant Seals taken by C.H. Townsend, 40
  12. Elk,
    1. Arizona, now extinct, 34
    2. calves killed by pumas, 78
    3. distribution of living, 167
    4. easily bred in captivity, 370
    5. fed in Jackson Hole, 320
    6. of Yellowstone Park and Jackson Hole, 337
    7. progressive extermination of, 164
    8. saved by Congress in 1911, 166
    9. Seton's map of former and existing ranges, 163
    10. slaughter on Buffalo Flats, Mont., 70
    11. supply of elk wasted, 166
  13. Elk Island Park, 352, 353
  14. Elk River Game Preserve, B.C., 353
  15. Elm beetles, 213
  16. Elrod, Morton J., 49
  17. Emeu, 123
  18. Engel, C.M., on the lion, 183
  19. Epicure and quail, 221
  20. Espeut, W.B., 332
  21. Estes Park, 274
  22. Ethics of sportsmanship, 143, 144, 382, 384
  23. Eaton's "Birds of New York", 13
  24. Evans, Game Commissioner Kelly, 350, 351
  25. Ewbank, E.L., 44, 50
  26. Exempt species, lists of proposed, 383
  27. Extermination,
    1. African animals in line for, 187
    2. birds threatened with, 18
    3. defined, 8
    4. of big game, 158
    5. of birds for women's hats, 115
    6. of birds of paradise, 125
    7. of species, by states, 42
  28. Extinct species of North American birds, 7


  1. Falcon, perigrine, 226
  2. Fallow deer, 372
    1. introduced in Lambay, 328
  3. Farmers, supineness of, 4, 279
  4. Farming, fox, 374
  5. Feather sales in London, 120, 121, 122
  6. Federal migratory bird law needed, 266, 304, 305, 306
  7. Felton, W.R., 49, 348
  8. "Fence" for sale of stolen game, in Washington, 276
  9. Ferry, John F., 19
  10. Fever tick eaten by plovers, 229
  11. Field, George W., 24, 253
  12. Field, The American, 263
  13. Field and Stream, 263
  14. Figgis & Co., 121
  15. Fines, schedule of suitable, 260
  16. Finley, W.L., 50
  17. Firearms,
    1. owned by natives in India, 189
    2. unfair, 143, 148, 149, 150
  18. Fisher, Walter K., 137
  19. Flamingo, American, 20
  20. Fleming, James W., 290
  21. Flies eaten by quail, 221
  22. Florida, 43, 47, 105
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. new laws needed in, 276
  23. Flycatchers, 222
    1. destroy boll weevil, 217
  24. Foes of wild life, 73
  25. Food for winter birds, 227
  26. Food habits of certain birds, 218
  27. Food supply of deer, possible, 236
  28. Forbes, Professor, 210
  29. Forbush, E.H., 14
    1. on heath hen, 24
    2. quotation from, 75
    3. on the Sunday gun, 153
    4. on upland plover, 21, 31
    5. portrait of, 251, 253
  30. Forest and Stream, 263
  31. Forestry Bureau, United States, 388
    1. on predatory animals, 79
  32. Forests,
    1. losses on, 210, 212
    2. National, should be game preserves, 267
    3. of the Far East, 192
    4. preservation of National, 338
  33. Fox, black or "silver", 374
  34. Fox pest in Australia, 331
  35. Fox skins sold in London, 193
  36. Foxes as bird destroyers, 78
  37. Fruit, losses on, 210, 212
  38. France,
    1. bird plumage trade in, 117
    2. song birds sold for food in, 98
  39. Frazer River Game Preserve, 353
  40. Frick, Henry C., 395
  41. Fullerton, Samuel, 341
  42. Fund, wild life endowment, 397
  43. Funk Island, 11
  44. Fur-bearing mammals killed in Louisiana, 5
  45. Fur News Magazine, 193
  46. Furs, degradation of fashions in, 105
  47. Fur Seal, 249
  48. Furs sold in London, 193


  1. Game,
    1. and agriculture, 234-242
    2. as a state asset, 283
    3. belongs to the People, 143
    4. big, of North America, 155, 157
    5. bill, how to draw a, 260
    6. birds, as a mass, 3
    7. in Yellowstone Park, 336
    8. in Glacier Park, 340
    9. killed in Louisiana, 5
    10. law, how to make a new, 258
    11. market value of, 309
    12. dead game in New York, 311
    13. of Africa, absurd bag limit on, 181
    14. preserves, map of national, 339
    15. slaughter with automatic guns, 147, 148, 149, 150
  2. "Game Birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds", 253
  3. Game-hog, 58, 244
    1. not easily educated, 258
  4. Game preserve, see Preserve
  5. "Garceros", 126, 127
  6. Gardiner, Montana, 70, 337
    1. antelope attacked in, 91
  7. Gaspesian F.F. and G. Preserve, 355
  8. Geay, F., 127, 129
  9. Geer vs. Connecticut, decision in Supreme Court, 3, 143
  10. Geese,
    1. killed 1909-10 in Louisiana, 5
    2. slaughter of, by automatic guns, 148, 149, 150
  11. Gemsbok in Cape Colony, 185
  12. Georgia, 43, 47, 106
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. new laws needed in, 278
  13. Gerard, W.W., 52
  14. Gerhardt, Fred., 51
  15. German Carp, 329
  16. Gibb, Walter S., 340
  17. Glacier Park, Alberta, 352, 338
    1. game in, 340
  18. Glenn County Club, record slaughter at, 65, 148
  19. Globe, New York, 263
  20. Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, 263
  21. Goat, White Mountain, present status of, 164
  22. Goats,
    1. in Glacier Park, 340
    2. killed for food, 70
    3. mountain, killed by eagles, 78
  23. Goding, Edward N., 253
  24. Godwit, 231
    1. Hudsonian, 18
  25. Goeldi, E.A., 20
  26. Goodnight, Charles, 50, 342
  27. Gorilla, 187
  28. Goshawk, 226
  29. Grand Canyon Game Preserve, 343
  30. Grant, General, National Park, 344
  31. Grant, Madison, 247
    1. portrait of, 254
    2. game laws proposed by, 46
  32. Grasshoppers eaten
    1. by quail, 221
    2. by shore-birds, 229
  33. Gray, J.C., protector of ducks, 318
  34. Grinnell, G.B., 256
  35. Grinnell, Joseph, on California condor, 22
  36. Grisol, Mayeul, 126, 129
  37. Grizzly,
    1. California, almost extinct, 41, 178
    2. punishing an impudent, 314
    3. silver-tip, in British Columbia, 178
  38. Grosbeak, 223
  39. Grouse
    1. becoming extinct in
      1. California, 47
      2. Idaho, 47
      3. Montana, 49
      4. North Dakota, 50
      5. Virginia, 51
      6. Wisconsin, 51
      7. Wyoming, 51
  40. Grouse, Canada, 52
  41. Grouse, pinnated,
    1. diminishing in
      1. Manitoba, 52
      2. Illinois, 47
      3. Indiana, 47
      4. Iowa, 47
      5. Kansas, 48
      6. Missouri, 49
      7. North Dakota, 50
      8. Oklahoma, 50
    2. increasing in Manitoba, 52
    3. shot in Kansas, 245
  42. Grouse, Prairie Sharp-Tailed, 25
  43. Grouse, Ruffed, illegally shipped, 66, 67
  44. Grouse, Sage, 25
    1. in California, 47
    2. in Idaho, 47
    3. becoming extinct in Montana, 49
  45. Guadaloupe Island, elephant seals on, 40
  46. Guanaco in Patagonia, 169
  47. Guerrillas of destruction, 63
  48. Guessaz, O.L., 51
  49. Gulls,
    1. slaughtered on Laysan Island, 139
    2. and terns saved by Audubon Societies, 320
  50. Gunners,
    1. two, of Kansas City, 61
    2. who kill to the limit, 56, 58, 65
    3. will not give up shooting "rights", 305
  51. Guns, automatic or machine, 153
    1. bill to prohibit use of, 153
    2. increase in deadliness of, 145
    3. four machine, 144
    4. statistics of, 145, 150
    5. swivel and punt, suppressed, 143
  52. Gurkha soldiers destroying game, 190
  53. Gypsy Moth, 211
    1. cost of fighting, 330