Identifier: alabamabirddaybo1913alab (find matches)
Title: Alabama bird day book
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Alabama. Dept. of Game and Fish Alabama. Dept. of Conservation
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Montgomery, Ala. : Dept. of Game and Fish
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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they can be easilysighted by their relentless enemy, man, and consequently killed. That feature of the law which makes it unlawful to kill doehas had a splendid effect in bringing about a large increase in deer,as well as to make a hunter look twice before he shoots, in whichevent he can discriminate between a deer and a human being.Formerly, many sportsmen, by shooting at a shaking bush, killedtheir fellow-hunter instead of bringing down game. The latitude in which this State lies was originally the favoritehome and breeding ground of deer. Rapidly disappearing and runstill further back as civilization made its advance, deer became,under conditions existing prior to the enactment of the Game Law,restricted in their range either to the jungles of the river bottoms orelse to the almost unreachable summits of mountains. There is noreason why deer farming in Alabama should not be profitable.Experiments in breeding deer in enclosed parks have been triedwith the most gratifying results. S
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Alabama, ip13. 71 & THE FISH. A TYPICAL fish is a cold-blooded animal, with a bony skeleton,and elongated body which is covered with over-lapping scales,and an outfit of fins for balancing, steering and propulsion. It hasgills instead of lungs, fixed eyes, and a swimming-bladder, and issocially fitted for a wholly aquatic life. It is provided with teeth,it hears sounds by the transmitting power of the bony plates ofthe skull, and usually it lays eggs for the production of its young.The body of a typical fish is wedge-shaped, narrowest at the tail,thin from side to side, and the head tapers to a blount point. Thisform is specially designed for rapid and easy progress throughwater. The Black Bass may fairly be regarded as a perfectly typicalfish. The variations from the perfect type are almost innumerable.For example: The lung-fish has foot-like fins, and practical lungs. The catfish has no scales. Some Sharks and a few other fishes bring forth their youngalive. The Rays and Skates

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