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Our Vanishing Wild Life: Its Extermination and Preservation

Chapter 420: [Page 411]
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. Union and Advertiser, 263
  2. Union Fire-Arms Co., 144, 146
  3. United States Government, recent work in game protection by, 249, 266
  4. Upp, Thomas M., 81
  5. "Useful Birds and Their Protection", 75
  6. Utah, 45, 51, 59, 106
    1. new laws needed in, 298
    2. national monuments of, 344


  1. Vancouver Island, elk on, 165
  2. Vanishing species not always recoverable, 323
  3. Van Kennan, E.A., 290
  4. Venezuela,
    1. a plume-hunter in, 129
    2. wild birds' plumage from, 122
  5. "Vermin" destructive to birds, 78
  6. Vermont, 45, 51, 59, 157
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. deer killed in Vermont since 1897, 240
    3. few new laws needed in, 298
    4. management of deer in, 240-242
    5. protects wood-duck, 28
    6. re-stocking, with deer, 240
  7. Viquesnev, J.A., 51
  8. Virginia, 45, 51, 106, 109
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. many new laws needed in, 298
  9. Vreelarid, Frederick K., 353


  1. Wagner, George E., 51
  2. Wallace, Dillon, 245
    1. estimates 3,500 sheep in Colorado, 161
  3. Wallace, John H., Jr., 46, 253, 268
    1. on Florida laws, 277
  4. Wapiti, 164
    1. in Mt. Olympus National Monument, 340
    2. (see also, Elk)
  5. Ward, Charles Willis, 255, 349, 395
    1. donor of bird preserve, 319
  6. Ward, Henry L., 51, 389
    1. seals discovered by, 39
  7. Warden service based on merit system, 301
  8. Wardens, game, 60
    1. killed on duty, 103
    2. number of salaried, 237
  9. Ward-McIlhenny Wild Fowl Preserve, 361
  10. Waterton Lakes Park, 352, 353
  11. Washington, 45, 59, 165
    1. grizzlies in, 178
    2. a new code of laws needed in, 298
  12. Wayne, Arthur T., 133
  13. Weasel, 78, 317
  14. Webber, F.T., on Colorado quail, 89
  15. Webster, F.M., 214, 381
  16. Webster, Frederic S., 381
  17. Weed seeds eaten by quail, 219, 220
  18. Weeks, J.W., bird bill of, 267, 306
  19. Weevil, cotton-boll, 215, 216, 221
  20. Western Districts Game and Trout Protective Association, 185
  21. Western Field, 263
  22. West Virginia, 45, 51
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. good conditions in, 298
    3. protects wood-duck, 28
  23. Wharton, William P., 43, 49, 253
    1. bison, census by, 180
  24. Wheat, losses on, 209, 210
  25. Whipple, James S., 250
  26. Whitney, Caspar, 131
  27. Whooping Crane extinct, 49
    1. in Manitoba, 52
  28. Wichita National Bison Herd, 178, 294
  29. Wichita National Game Preserve, 341
  30. Wilcox, Albert, 395
    1. bequest from, 256
  31. Wild fowl, 48
    1. slaughter grounds, 64
    2. refuge, Louisiana State, 344
  32. Wildebeest in Cape Colony, 185
  33. Wild Life Call, 388
  34. "Wild Life in Australia", 332
  35. Wild Life Protective Association, 152, 257
  36. Wilderness area of North America, 156
    1. game will disappear from, 163
  37. Willet, 13, 31
  38. Williams, A. Bryan, British Columbia game warden, 52, 178, 356
  39. Wilson, Mrs. Minnie Moore, 16
  40. Wilson, Alexander, on the passenger pigeon, 12
  41. Wilson, Erasmus,
    1. on quail feeding, 89
    2. on Carrick's bird day, 379
  42. Wilson, Governor Woodrow, signs bill against machine guns, 289
  43. Wilson, James, Secretary of Agriculture, 343
  44. Winchester Arms Co., 144, 146, 150
  45. Wind Cave Bison Range, 180, 390
  46. Wisconsin, 45, 51, 59, 157
    1. deer killed in, 172
    2. new laws needed in, 301
  47. Woburn Park, David's deer at, 36
  48. Wolves destroyed, 79
    1. in British Columbia, 356
  49. Wombat in list of fur-bearers, 193
  50. Women promote bird slaughter, 7
  51. Wood, George E., 49
  52. Wood, Lieut.-Col. William, 355
  53. Woodcock, 30, 49, 50, 51, 52
  54. Wood-Duck, 28
    1. eaten in seventeen States, 29
    2. disappearing in Louisiana, 48
    3. nesting in Zoological Park, 207
  55. Woodpecker,
    1. Downy, 214, 226
    2. golden-winged, 226
    3. hairy, 226
  56. Woodpeckers, food of, 226
  57. Wooley-Dod, Arthur G., 51
  58. Wool-Growers' Association, 2
    1. opposes game preserves, 335, 348
  59. World, New York, 263
  60. Worthington, C.C., 236
  61. Wrens destroy boll weevil, 218
  62. Wyoming, 45, 51, 59
    1. efforts by, to feed starving elk, 166
    2. elk case, 71
    3. deer, 158
    4. grizzlies, 178
    5. laws needed, 302
    6. succor of elk in, 337
    7. National Monuments in, 344
    8. State Game Preserve in, 348


  1. Yale University, 392
  2. Yalakom Game Preserve, British Columbia, 354
  3. Yellowstone Park,
    1. animals in, 336
    2. bison herd of, 180
    3. elk in, 165
    4. protected animals of, 313
  4. Yoho Park, 352
  5. Yosemite National Park, 343
  6. Yukon Territory, sale of game in, 357


  1. Zebra,
    1. Burchell's, extinct, 37
    2. in Cape Colony, 185
  2. Zoological Park, New York, 19
    1. ducks killed in, 92
    2. thylacine in, 38
    3. wood-duck, quail and rabbits in, 315, 316
    4. woodpeckers decreasing in, 226
  3. Zoological Society, New York, 389, 395
    1. gift of bison herd from, 178, 294, 341
    2. on "extermination", 32
    3. protects birds of New York City, 101
  4. Zoologists, duty of American, 386