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Bird - Lore 



The report of the Audubon Society of 

 North Carolina, which arrived too late 

 for publication with the other state reports 

 in the November-December issue of Bird- 

 Lore, shows, among other interesting 

 results, the successful prosecution of torty- 

 two cases for violation of the state bird 

 and game protective statutes. The Society 

 also published a booklet of the game laws, 

 which was widely, distributed. With the 

 cooperation of the National Association, 

 the warden patrol work of guarding the 

 sea-bird colonies in Pamlico Sound was 

 continued as heretofore. The Society has 

 again recommended to the Legislature 

 that a State Game Commission be estab- 

 lished, and that the Society- be relieved 

 of the responsibility of enforcing the game 

 laws. 



A bulletin entitled "National Reser- 

 vations for the Protection of Wild Life" 

 has been recently issued by the United 

 States Department of Agriculture. It is 

 "Circular No. 87" of the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, and was prepared by 

 Dr. T. S. Palmer. We have received many 

 requests of late for information relative 

 to the location and extent of the various 

 government bird reserves. We would sug- 

 gest that those interested in securing data 

 on the subject should write for the above 

 circular, addressing their request to Mr. 

 Henry W. Henshaw, Chief of Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, Washington, D. C. 



The East Tennessee Audubon Society 

 is advertising the principles for which it 

 stands in the Knoxville papers. By the 

 purchase of a space of twenty-five square 

 inches, sufficient room has been secured to 

 lay before the readers the broad platform 

 for which the Society stands. In these 

 advertisements special attention is called 

 to the very great desirability of having 

 a law in Tennessee requiring all resident 

 hunters to pay a shooting tax of one dollar 

 annually. This course cannot be too 

 highly commended, for the income from 

 a resident license law would enable the 

 state to employ a sufficient number of 

 wardens to secure a more rigid observ- 

 ance of the bird and game laws. — T. G. P. 



The Audubon Plumage Law in New 

 York and New Jersey 



In September, 191 1, Mrs. Helene B. 

 McCulloch inserted a small advertise- 

 ment in a New York paper offering ai- 

 grettes for sale. A state game protector 

 and a representative from the office of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 

 visited Mrs. McCuUoch's apartment in 

 New York City and her arrest followed. 



The Milliners' Association promptly 

 took the case up and their attorneys acted 

 as counsel for Mrs. McCulloch. On their 

 representation postponements were had to 

 September 7, 21, October 5, 9 and 23 in 

 Police Court, when defendant waived 

 examination and was held for Special Sec- 

 sions. The adjournments in Special Ses- 

 sions at the request of milliners' counsel 

 were November 3, November 29, January 

 27, 191 2, February 14, March 14, April 

 16, April 23, December 6, December 20, 

 and on January 13, i9i3,the case came to 

 a trial. On that date, after more than six- 

 teen months' association with the case, 

 learned counsel for the Milliners' Associa- 

 tion discovered Mrs. McCulloch was not 

 a milliner and withdrew from the case. 

 Defendant pleaded guilty and sentence 

 was suspended. 



The attention of the .Vssociation was 

 recently directed to the fact that Hum- 

 mingbirds' heads and wings were offered 

 for sale in a large New York City depart- 

 ment store. Prosecution followed, and 

 the case was settled by the payment of 

 a fine of $60, and an afiidavit regarding 

 the jobbers from whom the goods had 

 been bought was furnished. 



A raid on the firm of A. Hirsh & Co., 

 20 West 31st Street, the jobbers, revealed 

 a stock not only of nearly 900 heads and 

 wings of Hummingbirds, but skins and 

 wings of Gulls, a large quantity of Grebe 

 plumage, Swifts, and the quills of Brown 

 Pelicans. There was also plumage of 

 Flamingoes and of the now rare scarlet 

 Ibis and several species of Birds of Para- 

 dise. Action against the firm has been 

 inaugurated. 



