Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation

Project Gutenberg's Our Vanishing Wild Life, by William T. Hornaday This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation Author: William T. Hornaday Release Date: August 22, 2004 [EBook #13249] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK OUR VANISHING WILD LIFE *** Produced by Paul Murray and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. OUR VANISHING WILD LIFE ITS EXTERMINATION AND PRESERVATION BY WILLIAM T. HORNADAY, Sc.D. DIRECTOR OF THE NEW YORK ZOOLOGICAL PARK; AUTHOR OF "THE AMERICAN NATURAL HISTORY"; EX-PRESIDENT OF THE AMERICAN BISON SOCIETY WITH MAPS AND ILLUSTRATIONS "Hew to the line! Let the chips fall where they will."—Old Exhortation. "Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."—Othello. NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1913 Copyright, 1913, by WILLIAM T. HORNADAY First Publication, Jan, 1913 SPECIAL NOTICE For the benefit of the cause that this book represents, the author freely extends to all periodicals and lecturers the privilege of reproducing any of the maps and illustrations in this volume except the bird portraits, the white-tailed deer and antelope, and the maps and pictures specially copyrighted by other persons, and so recorded.