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time in Richmond county prior lo the year 

 nineteen hundrcfl and fourteen. 



Section two hundred and forty of said 

 act is hereby amended by addini^ a new- 

 subdivision to said section, to he known 

 as subdivision cif^hteeii ttu'reof, and to read 

 as follows: 



18. Plumage includes any part of the 

 feathers, head, wings or tail of any bird, 

 and wherever the word occurs in liiis 

 chapter reference is had equally to plum- 

 age of birds coming from without the 

 state as to that obtained within the state, 

 but it shall not be construed to apply to the 

 feathers of birds of paradise, ostriches, 

 domestic fowl or domestic pigeons. 



This art shall take effect July r, 191 1." 



— T. (;. r. 



A Bird Park Established 



Mrs. Mary Emery, of Cincinnati, has 

 recently purchased, at an estimated cost 

 of $250,000, a tract containing about two 

 acres of land located near the grounds 

 of the University of Cincinnati, which is 

 to be made a "Bird Park," surrounded 

 by a cat-proof fence. 



It has been given to the city, and its 

 improvements and care will be directed 

 by the Department of Biology of the Uni- 

 versity, the head of which, Prof. H. W. 

 Benedict, is credited with having interested 

 Mrs. Emery in this public-spirited idea. — 

 T. G. P. 



Heron Colonies Raided 



Word has just reached this office that a 

 colony of Snowy Herons in eastern North 

 Carolina has been 'shot out.' It is re- 

 ported that the men who did the killing 

 realized something over $70 for the plumes 

 gathered that day from the backs of 

 the birds which were killed. Our infor- 

 mation is that the feathers were shipped to 

 a northern market, and, as this is a viola- 

 tion of the Federal statute, known as the 

 Lacey Act, the case has been placed in 

 the hands of the United States Attorne\- 

 for the eastern district of North Carolina. 



Warden W. M. Sprinkle, who patrols 

 certain of the bird colonies on the Louisi- 



ana coast, reports that, when he visited 

 Dutcher's island on May 3, he found that 

 it had been plundered by eggers. The two 

 thousand I^ouisiana Heron nests had been 

 rilled of their eggs and a number of the 

 birds shot. 



These cases emphasize the tremendous 

 importance of having the income of this 

 Association greatly enlarged at once, if 

 many of our birds are to be saved. The 

 Snowy Heron is one of the very rarest 

 plume birds in the United States today. 

 We know of two unprotected colonies, 

 eac h of which could be guarded at a cost 

 of $100 annually, but our present resources 

 are already strained to the limit, and the 

 additional e.xpense cannot now be under- 

 taken. Is there not some reader of Bird- 

 Lore who is willing to contribute the 

 necessary amount to save one of the few 

 remaining breeding haunts of this aigrette- 

 bearing Heron?— T. G. P. 



Some Audubon Field Workers 



On January 2S there was organized in 

 the energetic city of Edmonton, Alberta, 

 a Provincial Audubon Society, which gives 

 promise of doing much splendid work for 

 bird and game protection in that section 

 of the Dominion of Canada. The officers 

 elected are president, Glenn B. Chadwick, 

 1240 Victoria avenue, and Sidney S. S. 

 Stansell, 1025 Sixth street. We shall 

 expect to hear good reports of their 



Miss Gretchen L. Libby of Riverside, 

 California, who has been lecturing for the 

 Association and the Audubon Society of 

 California for a number of months past, 

 has been doing some very aggressive 

 work. During the months of February and 

 March she visited forty-one schools in 

 eleven cities and towns and gave one hun- 

 dred and twelve talks. In this way she was 

 able to reach about six thousand children 

 and over four hundred adults. As a result 

 of the work in the schools, twenty-two 

 Junior Audubon Societies were organized 

 with a total membership of over one thou- 

 sand, and, as a number of schools have 



