The Kusko times., 1926-08-14

out of existence, destroyed by indis- criminate human slaughter unreGeved by any real precautions for it's pre- servation.
 In my boyhood still another most interesting specimen of the feathered creation was the wood duck. All of you, suppose, have seen it at some time or other1 at any rate in the frag- mentary form in which it is used in the fashioning of lady's hat.
 know nothing more exquisite than the piumagee of this duck. Unlike most species of. wild duck, it nestled, or to some extent nestled, in this part of the world, In other words, it did not always leave its haupts here for the purpose of going off to Canada or some other remote region, but nestled about our lagoons and our rivers. It was, as I said, a most beautiful, one of the most interesting and charming of all our birds, but how often do we see a wood duck today in. Maryand or Virginia?
 MT. Broussard. MT: President
 MT. Bruce I yield to- the Senator from Louisiana.
 MT. Broussard. We have q, great many in Louisiana, and they migrate every winter.
 MT. Bruce. Yes, Il ltnow;. bun they did not always migrate with us.. We would see their nests often om the trees along our rivers and lagoons. It may be tha they find the, climate of Louisiana just a little too h@t. for them when the summer comes along and prefer a temperate, wholesome air like that of this region! But how rare is the wood duck in this region now? Apparently, it, too is, doomed to- de struction.
 When I was youngr man 25 or i39 years of age one could not walk into a restaurant or social club of any standing in the city of Baltimore
 
 pheasant on thee menu. Need say what the flesh of a grouse or a pheas- ant meant to anyone with true sense of the pleasures4ofi the table? 1 have not seen a grouse or pheasant on a menu in a hotel .or social club in Bal timore for perhaps at much as fifteen vt,a,a ap4 said in Maryland--I know not how. truthfully-that apprentices were fed by their masters on -terrapin to such surfeiting extent. that they were disposed to complain of such harsh treatment. Even in my early man hood it was impossible to go into any hotel or wayside inn in the tidewater territory of Maryland without, being able to obtain this most delicious of all food at a very very reasonable price. Like true Marylander, l am in the habit of saying that errapin is the poetry of good eating and that all other forms of food are simply plain prose. But now terrapin in Maryland are so costly that none but the rich can afford to- buy, them. Of. course, they do not belong to, the family of birds, but the manner in which they are disappearing also helps to, illus trate the objects: of the pending, bill.
 MT. Dill. The Senator has given a very beautiful description of. the wild life of some years ago in the wag of birds. The Senator recognizes, of course, that not only the wild life of birds in this sphere. of wild life bat other kinds of wild life as well have disappeared throughout, the country with the advance of civilization arECF roads of every kind.
 Mr. Bruce They have, but there. IS no reason wRy, they should disappear: In foreign countries where adfninis- trative regulations are enforced more l effectively thaa is true with us game is,, as am informed, about as abun- dant as 1t ever was in the history of this country. England still has tife pheasant and the grouse in abund9 ancen
 MT. Walsh. They have private hunting grounds, too
 | Mr. Bruce. Yes, they have Mr Walsh Where. very freat areas