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refuges; birds can be attracied lo a lo- 

 cality by feeding in winter and furnishing 

 drinking and bathing pools in summer, 

 and especially by furnishing artificial nest- 

 ing boxes and holes. 



In this connection, it is a pleasure to 

 .announce that Houghton. Mifflin & Com- 

 pany have just published a book written 

 by Gilbert H. Trafton on 'Methods of 

 attracting Birds.' 



This Association is also the selling 

 agent in the United States of the English 

 translation of the von Berlepsch book, en- 

 titled 'How to Attract and Protect Wild 

 Birds,' and also has for free distribution 

 leaflets on 'Winter Feeding' and 'Putting 

 up Bird Bo.xes.' 



The readers of Bird-Lore who desire lo 

 erect artificial breeding boxes and holes 

 for birds should correspond with Mr. J. 

 Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa., and 

 Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, Meriden, 

 New Hampshire, both of whom are now 

 successfully manufacturing artificial 

 breeding boxes. — W. D. 



Another Reason for International 

 Bird Protection 



Mr. William Alanson Bryan, our 

 Hawaiian representative, sends the fol- 

 lowing from the 'Sunday Advertiser,' Hon- 

 olulu, of August 7, 1910: 



"Japs Po.a.ching ox L.ays.\x" 



"The officers of the schooner Concord, 

 which arrived late Friday afternoon from 

 Laysan Island, stated that a small Japan- 

 ese schooner had recently put in at Laysan, 

 supposedly for the purpose of poaching 

 upon the bird reservation, but there was 

 no actual proof that any had been done. 

 It was said that the Japanese made no 

 pretense of secrecy, and that there was a 

 large number of men on the schooner. 



"There are thousands of birds on the 

 island, and it is easy for poachers to get 

 them if there is no one to guard the island. 

 The place is said to be overrun with rab- 

 bits. The Japanese vessel is said to have 

 left Tokio last January. The officers of the 

 craft told Captain Miller of the Concord 



thai another Japanese schooner had been 

 lost recently on the Pacific. The Japanese 

 had no bird skins or feathers that could be 

 seen by the crew of the Concord." 



Foreign Bird News 



With many thanks. I have the honor to 

 acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of 

 August 6th, and the volume of your Edu- 

 cational Leaflets. I must say that we 

 are full of admiration for the great work 

 and the noble aims of the Audubon So- 

 cieties. We are very glad to receive your 

 magazine Bird-Lore. 



I shall take great pleasure in sending 

 you a communication relative to bird 

 protection in my country. We work by 

 articles in the journals and periodicals. .\ 

 prominent part is a series of lectures given 

 by the President in schools and societies 

 in the country. We have some small is- 

 lands reserved and protected by a warden. 

 I enclose a prospectus. — Laurent Mehrn, 

 Lieutenant-Colonel, Foreign Correspond- 

 ence Secretary, in the Society '"Svalen." 

 Post address: Store Kongensgade 05-.^ 

 Copenhagen. 



"SVALEN" 

 (The Swallow) 



Society for the Protection of Birds and 

 Other -Vnimals in Denmark, iqog 



The Society "Svalen" has now done 

 more than eleven years' work in further- 

 ance of the aims which it has set before 

 itself; especially, to protect the avi-fauna 

 in such a manner that they may be de- 

 veloped to the advantage of agricultural 

 interests. In the course of time, we have 

 succeeded in enlightening a large portion 

 of the public as to the paramount im- 

 portance of birds in the great economy of 

 Nature, and we have done our best to se- 

 cure the carrying out of the Game Laws. 

 The society participates in the inter- 

 national efforts directed against the mas- 

 sacre of birds in the South. 



"Svalen" discourages the wearing of any 

 feathers except those of the ostrich and 

 domestic fowls — discourages illegal l)ird 



