THE MENTOR 1916.08.15, No. 113, Game Animals of America LEARN ONE THING EVERY DAY AUGUST 15 1916 SERIAL NO. 113 THE MENTOR GAME ANIMALS OF AMERICA By W. T. HORNADAY Director New York Zoological Park DEPARTMENT OF VOLUME 4 NATURAL HISTORY NUMBER 13 FIFTEEN CENTS A COPY Game Preservation The most striking and melancholy feature in connection with American big game is the rapidity with which it has vanished. When, just before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War, the rifle-bearing hunters of the backwoods first penetrated the great forests west of the Alleghanies, deer, elk, black bear, and even buffalo, swarmed in what are now the States of Kentucky and Tennessee, and the country north of the Ohio was a great and almost virgin hunting-ground. From that day to this the shrinkage has gone on, only partially checked here and there. There is yet ample opportunity for the big game hunter in the United States, Canada and Alaska.… It is necessary to remember that these opportunities are, nevertheless, vanishing; and if we are a sensible people we will make it our business to see that the process of extinction is arrested. At the present moment the great herds of caribou are being butchered, as in the past the great herds of bison and wapiti have been butchered. Every believer in manliness, and therefore in manly sport, and every lover of nature, every man who appreciates the majesty and beauty of the wilderness and of wild life, should strike hands with the far-sighted men who wish to preserve our material resources, in the effort to keep our forests and our game beasts, game birds, and game fish--indeed, all the living creatures of prairie, and woodland, and seashore--from wanton destruction. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. From “Outdoor Pastimes of an American Hunter,” by Theodore Roosevelt. Copyright, Charles Scribner’s Sons. GAME ANIMALS OF AMERICA _By W. T. HORNADAY_ THE MENTOR DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL HISTORY _MENTOR GRAVURES_ ELK MOUNTAIN SHEEP ROCKY MOUNTAIN GOAT AUGUST 15 1916 _MENTOR GRAVURES_ CARIBOU BULL MOOSE THE BISON LEADER [Illustration: Mountain Sheep Head] Entered as second-class matter March 10, 1913, at the postoffice at New York, N. Y., under the act of March 3, 1879. Copyright, 1916, by The Mentor Association, Inc.