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The far-reaching possibilities of this 

 law are being realized through the fore- 

 sight which made the enforcement of its 

 provisions the duty of the Biological Sur- 

 vey, where, under the immediate super- 

 vision of Dr. Palmer, it bids fair to 

 become an even more efficient means of 

 bird protection than its most ardent sup- 

 porters had anticipated ; as witness the 

 seizure of Gulls in Baltimore, reported 

 beyond in the columns of the Audubon 

 Department. 



The proposition advanced by the mil- 

 liners to the Audubon Societies and the 

 American Ornithologists' Union is pre- 

 sumptive evidence that the efforts of 

 these organizations to protect our birds 

 have not been without their effect on the 

 millinery trade. 



Mr. Stone, chairman of the Union's 

 committee on bird protection, has been 

 commendably active, while two members of 

 the Union, Messrs. A. H. Thayer and Wil- 

 liam Dutcher, have made a record in prac- 

 tical bird protection, which it is hoped will 

 bear fruit in funds with which to continue 

 their work during the coming year. 



From every point of view, then, this 

 brief enumeration of the more important 

 developments of the year is encouraging 

 in the extreme, and almost warrants one's 

 belief in the speedy approach of that orni- 

 thological millennium when the value of 

 birds to man will be common knowledge. 



Bird-Lore for 1901 



Bird-Lore has many friends, but we 

 believe that the most ardent among them 

 does not realize the pleasure it gives us 

 to announce that beginning with the pres- 

 ent number, Bird-Lore is to be enlarged 

 one-fourth. Including advertisements of 

 bird books and magazines, in themselves 

 of interest, each issue will now contain 

 fifty pages ; a total of 300 for the year, 

 with about seventy-five illustrations. 



This, however, is only a beginning, for 

 there is absolutely no limit to our ambi- 

 tion to add to Bird-Lore's value and at- 

 tractiveness. With the present increase in 

 size we are enabled to carry out some of 

 our plans for the magazine's betterment; 



but we have in mind so many others of 

 which we are sure our subscribers would 

 approve, that we trust they will share our 

 impatience in seeing them realized. 



Bird-Lore's chief feature for the com- 

 ing year will be the series of articles and 

 lesson-outlines on 'Birds and Seasons,' 

 the first instalment of which, together 

 with an explanation of its objects, will be 

 found on a preceding page. 



Should this attempt to establish a defi- 

 nite course of study prove successful, we 

 hope it may be the starting point in the 

 development of an idea which includes a 

 school of popular ornithology, with a sum- 

 mer encampment where both class-room 

 and field instruction could be given by a 

 corps of experienced teachers. 



Lack of space prevented us from fulfill- 

 ing some of the promises for the past 

 year ; they will, however, be redeemed 

 during the next twelve months, when we 

 shall publish Mr. Burroughs' account of 

 his rarer bird visitors, Ernest Seton- 

 Thompson's illustrated paper on ' How to 

 Know the Hawks and Owls,' and H. W. 

 Henshaw's important studies of Hawaiian 

 bird-life. 



Of unusual interest will be a stenogra- 

 phic report of an address on Audubon 

 delivered by Dr. Elliott Coues before the 

 American Ornithologists' Union in 1897, 

 while Miss Maria R. Audubon will con- 

 tribute several letters written by her 

 famous grandfather to his son John — her 

 father — in 1827. 



Among other articles we may mention 

 Mr. F. A. Lucas' description of the bird 

 rookeries of Walrus Island, in Bering Sea, 

 with some of the most remarkable photo- 

 graphs we have ever seen, Dr. T. S. Pal- 

 mer's illustrated sketch of ' Ostrich Farm- 

 ing in America, ' Dr. J . Dwight, Jr 's. ' How 

 Birds Molt,' and Mr. Montagu Sharpe's 

 'Bird Protection in Great Britain.' 



The illustrations will not only be more 

 numerous but actually better than those 

 we have already published, and will in- 

 clude numerous photographs illustrating 

 an account by the editor of a bird-nesting 

 expedition with John Burroughs. 



