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CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XXI. — The Conservation of Birds. — I. The Non-Game-Birds . 255 



XXII. — The Conservation of Birds. — II. The Game-Birds . . . 271 



XXIII. — Preventing the Depredations of Birds 2{)o 



XXIV. — Encoura(;in(; the Presence of Birds o04 



APPENDIX 



I. — The Bird Law of the American Ornithologists' Union 817 



II. — Federal Bird Laws 320 



III. — Some Fundamental Principles of Bird Laws 328 



IV. A Partial Bibliography of the Economic Belations of 



North American Birds 331 



Index ^^^ 



