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It is seriously to the discredit of Mississippi that her laws actually classify robins, cedar-birds, grosbeaks and doves as "game," and make them killable as such from Sept.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

I think the forests would not be over populated; and they would produce two million killable deer each year!

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

In those countries, the grizzly species will hold forth long after all killable grizzlies have vanished from the United States.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

Beyond question, the highest sentiments of humanity are those that are stirred by the misfortunes of killable game.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple

As a state of oldtime abundance in killable game, the killing records that were kept in the year 1909-10 possess for us very great interest.

From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple