Rural School Leaflet 



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authorities, in promoting the study of birds, the dissemination of knowledge 

 concerning bird life, and the protection and the increase of useful species. 



2. It conducts legislative campaigns in the interest of state and federal 

 laws to conserv^e useful birds and animals. 



3. It conducts ornithological surveys, recommends the establishment 

 of bird sanctuaries to 

 state and federal au- 

 thorities, and aids 

 financially in protect- 

 ing these reservations. 



4. It employs a 

 force of wardens to 

 protect the more im- 

 portant colonies of 

 ducks, geese, gulls, 

 terns, pelicans, and 

 other water birds 

 throughout theUnited 

 States. 



5. It maintains a 

 corps of field agents 

 and lecturers who are 

 constantly bringing to 

 public attention the 

 value of \vild birds 

 and animals. 



6. It is actively in- 

 terested in regulating 

 the plumage trade 

 and the suppression of 

 traffic in the feathers 

 of native birds. 



7. It has been large- 

 ly instnimental i n 

 suppressing the sys- 

 tematic trapping of 

 thousands of mocking birds, cardinals, and other native song birds, for sale 

 in North America or for shipment abroad. 



8. It is organizing annually more than one hundred thousand school 

 children into classes for the study of birds ; and it aids in giving at stimmer 

 schools courses in bird study most useful to teachers. 



9. It publishes and distributes millions of colored pictures of North 



Yclkno-billed cuckoo. This illustration has been reduced from 

 large four -color illustration of the Audubon Society bird 

 picture 



