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Dakota, one; Porto Rico, one; New Mexico 

 two. 



The Louisiana and the Florida coast 

 and keys reserves protect, chiefly, the 

 plume birds, such as Herons, Pelicans, 

 Gulls and Terns, Black Skimmers, etc., 

 during the nesting-season, while several 

 of them are the winter homes of myriads 

 of the edible waterfowl, chiefly Ducks. 

 The northern inland reserves, except those 

 in Lake Superior, are breeding-resorts of 

 the ducks and geese which winter on the 

 Gulf coast, and they serve also as resting- 

 stations during the spring and fall migra- 

 tions for the countless flocks of these birds 

 which go further north to breed. The mid- 

 Pacific and Pacific coast reserves, south of 

 Alaska, are breeding-grounds for countless 

 numbers of sea-birds, the Albatrosses and 

 Petrels in the mid-Pacific, and the Auklets 

 Puffins, Guillemots, Gulls, Cormorants, 

 Petrels, Murres, etc., on the coastal 

 islands; while the Alaskan islands are 

 breeding-grounds not only for these and 

 similar sea-birds, but for many species of 

 Wild Ducks, including the Eider Ducks. 

 The large Yukon Delta reservation pro- 

 tects the Emperor Goose, this being the 

 only known breeding-ground of this rare 

 and royal bird on American soil. Some 

 of the coastal islands are also the breed- 

 ing-resorts for sea-lions which, of course, 

 are given the same protection afforded 

 the birds. 



No man, at this earl}^ period in the bird- 

 protection movement, can even estimate 

 the value of these reservations to the 

 rising generation, which is now taking up 

 the burdens of human existence, much less 

 foretell the blessings the increase in bird 

 life will confer upon whose who follow in 

 the centuries to come. Mr. Bond believes, 

 also, that, when the available reservation 

 territory is set aside and properly admin- 

 istered, the question of extinction of valu- 

 able species, whether of plume or edible 

 birds, will have been solved in the negative, 

 and that in the preservation of the insec- 

 tivorous and song birds through the 

 awakening conscience of the people, and 

 through the terrors which the vision of an 

 insect-eaten world creates, our descen- 



dants, until the end of time, will enjoy 

 much more than we these feathered 

 necessities of human existence. 



Mr. Bond has long been interested in 

 bird-life and bird protection. During his 

 twenty years in Cheyenne, Wyoming, as 

 editor of a daily morning paper, he con- 

 stantly dwelt on the subject, until he 

 built up one of the largest Audubon 

 Societies then existing in the United States. 

 He was born June 30, 1857, and his youth 

 was spent in healthful exercise on his 

 father's farm in Iowa. 



His interest manifests itself in a number 

 of ways. He is an artist of ability, and his 

 illustrations have often been published. 

 He is a clever imitator of the notes of many 

 birds. I recall sitting with him one even- 

 ing in the Palm Court of the Endicott 

 Hotel, in New York, when he set the caged 

 canaries wild with interest and curiosity. 

 Evidently, they thought a new and power- 

 ful male canary had arrived in their midst. 

 — T. Gilbert Pearson. 



New Members 



During the period between March i 

 and May i, 191 1, the following persons 

 became members and contributors to the 

 work of the National Association. 



Life Members — 



Brooks, Mr. Gorham, 

 Hopewell, Mr. Frank, 

 Pratt, Mr. Geo. D. 

 Schroeder, Miss L. H. 



Sustaining Members — 

 Adams, Mrs. Brooks 

 Ames, Miss Harriet S. 

 Andrews, Mr. R. C. 

 Baldwin, Mr. George J. 

 Barlett, Miss Fannie 

 Barry, Mr. C. T. 

 Bement, Mrs. Grace F. 

 Benkard, Mr. J. Philip 

 Blake, Mr. Maurice C. 

 Blossom, Miss K. E. 

 Brown, Miss Augusta M. 

 Brown, Miss Eva I. 

 Brown, Mr. Robert I. 

 Brown, Mr. T. H. 

 Brown, Mr. W. H. 

 Burleigh, Mr. George W 

 Buttrick, Miss H. B. 

 Carty, Mrs. John 

 Case' Miss M. R. 



