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Bird - Lore 



MOVING PICTURES NOW AVAILABLE FOR 

 FLORIDA AUDIENCES 



Norman McClintock, the well-known 

 nature photographer, of Pittsburgh, will 

 be available for moving-picture lectures in 

 Florida during the months of February 

 and March. His addresses will be fully 

 illustrated with remarkably beautiful and 

 interesting moving pictures of Florida bird- 

 life. His collection of these subjects was 

 very much enriched by his studies at the 

 Association's protected Heron and Egret 



colony in Orange Lake during the past 

 summer. Any members or friends of the 

 Association who are spending the winter 

 in Florida and who would like to make local 

 arrangements for having the pictures 

 shown are invited to communicate with the 

 home office of the Association at 1974 

 Broadway, New York, or directlj' with 

 Norman McClintock, 504 Amberson Ave., 

 Pittsburgh. 



ILLEGAL TO GIVE CHILDREN AIR-GUNS 



We so often see air-guns in the hands of 

 children that it is thought wise to bring 

 before the attention of our readers the fact 

 that there is a provision in the Penal 

 Code of the State of New York, that makes 

 it illegal to give an air-gun to any person 

 under the age of sixteen years. It is also 

 illegal for any person under the age of 

 sixteen to carry or have in possession such 

 air-gun. 



"Section 1896 — L. 1913 ch. 608. 



"A person who manufactures, or causes 

 to be manuactured, or sells or keeps for 

 sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any 

 instrument or weapon of the kind usually 

 known as a black-jack, slungshot, billy, 

 sandclub, sandbag, bludgeon, or metal 



knuckles, to an_\' person; or a person who 

 offers, sells, loans, leases, or GIVES any 

 gun, revolver, pistol or other fire-arm or 

 any air-gun, spring-gun or other instru- 

 ment or weajjon in which the propelling 

 force is a spring or air or any instrument 

 or weapon commonly known as a toy 

 pistol or in or upon which any loaded or 

 blank cartridges are used, or may be used, 

 or any loaded or blank cartridges or 

 ammunition therefor to any person under 

 llie age of sixteen years, is guilty of a mis- 

 demeanor. 

 "Section 1897 — L. 1913, ch. 608. 



"Any person under the age of sixteen 

 years, who shall have in his possession, 

 any of the articles named or described in 

 the last section, which is forbidden therein 

 to offer, sell, loan, lease or give to him. 

 shall be guilty of juvenile delinquency." 



FOR A UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF 

 CONSERVATION 



On December 8, 1920, Congressman 

 McDufTy, of Alabama, introduced in the 

 House of Representatives a bill intended 

 to create a new Cabinet officer to be 

 known as 'Secretary of Conservation.' 

 The bill arranges for the usual machinery 

 for the creating of a new (k'i)artmcnt of 

 Government, and |)r()vides tliat this de- 

 partment shai! liave jurisdiction over llie 

 Forest Service, and Bureau of Hiological 

 Survey, now under the jurisdiction of the 

 Department of Agriculture; also the 

 (Geological Survey and the National Parks 

 Service, now under the jurisdiction of the 

 Department of Interior; and the Bureau of 



I'isheries, now under the jurisdiction of the 

 I)e])artment of Commerce. 



The bill also provides for the creation of 

 a new bureau to be known as the 'Bureau 

 of Birds and Game.' The Department 

 is to be sujiplicd with a legal offiice in 

 charge of a solicitor. Tlie duties and 

 authorities of the proposed Department of 

 Conservation are also set forth in detail. 



Prominent among the sponsors for the 

 bill is Hon. John H. Wallace, Jr., of Ala- 

 bama who for many years has been active 

 and energetic as State Game Warden of 

 tliat Co mnion wealth. 



