680 ANNUAL REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



and in the collection of data on the habits and migration of birds. 

 A report will be completed for publication on a trip made by E. A. 

 Preble in British Columbia in the summer of 1910. The report on 

 the birds of Texas will be completed for publication aud final reports 

 on the biological survey of New Mexico will be published. A final 

 report on the survey of Wyomijig, so far as the work has g(jne, will 

 be prepared. 



A detailed report on Lower California, with map, will be com- 

 pleted for publication. The present international interest in this 

 region renders this report especially important and opportune. 



GAME PRESERVATION. 



Several new projects will require attention during the early 

 autumn of 1912. Under the appropriation of $26,000 for establish- 

 ment of a national game preserve on the Wind Cave National Park, 

 in South Dakota, arrangements will be made for the purchase of 

 lands controlling the necessary water supply and also contracts made 

 for fencing a portion of the park for the herd of buffalo to be pre- 

 sented by the American Bison Society. Efforts will be made to 

 place the winter feeding of elk in Jacteon Hole on a more permanent 

 basis by the acquisition of a refuge, where hay can be produced and 

 fed during the winter. Efforts will be renewed to obtain authoriza- 

 tion and an appropriation for fencing the Niobrara Eeservation, in 

 Nebraska, so that it may be used as a big-game preserve. It is 

 planned to send an expedition to Laysan early in the winter to guard 

 ao'ainst poaching and also to effect a reduction in the number of rab- 

 bits on the island. Warden service will be installed on several addi- 

 tional reservations, including Forrester Island, Alaska; and Mini- 

 doka and Deer Flat, Idaho. Efforts will be made to insure a stricter 

 compliance with the Federal law governing interstate shipments of 

 game, particularly in the States of Pennsylvania, Virginia, North 

 Carolina. Kentucl^, Illinois, and Arkansas, and also to extend the 

 work to traffic in plumage. 



