178 BIRD FRIENDS 



has brought these agencies together to work in 

 unison. 



The work of the Association has been extended 

 in many lines, chief of which are the following: 

 (1) legislation, (2) warden work, (3) egret-protec- 

 tion, (4) publications, (5) junior Audubon classes, 

 (6) field agents, (7) department of applied orni- 

 thology, (8) arranging for bird courses in summer 

 schools, (9) establishing bird sanctuaries. 



Legislation. The Association first gave its atten- 

 tion to securing proper laws protecting birds. The 

 American Ornithologists' Union had prepared a 

 model law for the protection of song-birds, and this 

 was brought to the attention of legislatures in the 

 various States, and efforts were made to secure its 

 passage. These efforts have been almost uniformly 

 successful and now this law has been adopted by 

 forty States. Efforts were also made to secure bet- 

 ter laws for the protection of game-birds, such as 

 prohibiting spring shooting, shortening the open 

 season, limiting the number of birds that may be 

 shot, removing small birds from the game list, regu- 

 lating the kind of weapons that may be used, and 

 prohibiting the sale of game. Great progress has 

 been made along all these lines. 



When state legislatures are in session, all bills 

 relating to bird life are carefully studied, and any 

 bill that tends to remove protection from valuable 

 birds is opposed, and bills that give birds more 



