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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Address all correspond 

 the National Associatr 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



and send all remi 

 Audubon Societi 



York City 



WE NEED 



More members in the Association, in 

 order to increase our influence and our 

 working fund. The question has often 

 been asked by members, "What can I 

 do to heip?" The reply is always, "Get 

 ^ome friend to join the Association." 

 If every one of our thousand members 

 will do this, it will so enlarge and strengthen 

 the Society that it will not be necessary 

 in the future to reluctantly refuse to con- 

 sider propositions for additional lines of 

 bird-protection work. With the financial 

 support of two or three thousand addi- 

 tional members, the Association will be in 

 such a position that it can commence at 

 once to carry out several important plans 

 that we are now compelled to ignore. 



We wish to slop Robin-shooting in 

 the South during the winter and spring. 



We wish to stop Dove-shooting in all 

 ■of the states where it is now legal to kill 

 these valuable birds. 



We wish to remove the small shore 

 birds from the list of game birds. 



We wish to agitate for a close season 

 of five or ten years on the Wood Duck 

 and Bartramian Sandpiper. 



We wish to prepare the way in all 

 parts of the country for a uniform law, 

 stopping shooting of every kind of game 

 birds from January first to a reasonable 

 open season in the fall of the year. 



We wish to increase the educational 

 work through the public press. 



Above all, we wish to increase our out- 

 put of educational literature to the school 

 children of the continent. 



The importance of all of the above 

 suggestions must be manifest to every 



thinking mind, and we commend them 

 to the thoughtful consideration of the 

 members of this Association especially, 

 and to the public generally. — -W. D. 



A New Bird Reservation 



There should he no limitation to the 

 activities of the members of this Asso- 

 ciation in seeking new tracts that can be 

 set aside as bird refuges. All islands on 

 the coast or in any of the interior lakes, 

 especially in the great West, should be 

 investigated, to ascertain whether water 

 fowl or other birds nest there in any num- 

 bers. If such is the case, a report should 

 be sent at once to the headquarters of 

 the Association in New York City. This 

 is an important work that can be carried 

 on by any member, and, in view of the 

 fact that the nesting localities of ducks 

 and shore birds in all parts of the country 

 are being rapidly restricted, it is important 

 that refuges should be made where they 

 can still breed, in order to prevent ex- 

 termination. Islands or marshes that 

 cannot be used for agriculture or home- 

 steading will make admirable bird-breed- 

 ing reserves. A report of the character of 

 the place, and the appro.ximate number 

 and kinds of birds breeding there, is all 

 that is necessary in the first report. On 

 its receipt, inquiry will at once be made 

 in Washington as to whether the property 

 still belongs to the Federal Government, 

 and, if such proves to be the case, an ap- 

 plication will be made to have it set aside 

 as a reservation. 



One of our interested members, re- 

 siding in Illinois, but who spends his 

 winters south, discovered just such a tract 



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