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Bird-Lore 



In Congress the passage of the Weeks- 

 McLean bill, which gives the Agricultural 

 Department authority to regulate the 

 seasons when migratory game birds and 

 insect-eating birds may be killed, is a 

 long step in the right direction. While 

 this is by no means a panacea for all the 

 ills of bird-slaughter, it will in many parts 

 of the country have a most wholesome 

 moral effect. 



At the present time it appears alto- 

 gether probable that the proviso in the 

 Tariff Bill which intends to prohibit the 

 importation of the feathers of wild birds 

 except for educational and scientific pur- 

 poses, will become a law. The effect of 

 such a statute would be very far-reaching, 

 and the progress of the Tariff Bill through 

 Congress will be watched with great inter- 

 est by bird-protectionists everywhere. — 

 T. G. P. 



New York and Florida 



Information recently reached the office 

 of the Association to the effect that the 

 Transvaal Feather Company of New 

 York City was violating the plumage law 

 by selling aigrettes. As a result of a little 

 detective work on the part of a member 



of the Association staff, this firm was 

 trapped and a stock of some thirty dozen 

 aigrette plumes was confiscated and action 

 brought against the firm. 



This case was settled by the Transvaal 

 Company out of court by the payment of 

 a fine of $150 and the confiscation of 

 the plumes. 



Through the activity of the St. Peters- 

 burg Auxiliary of the Florida Audubon 

 Society, a petition signed by the local 

 school children, seventy feet in length, 

 was sent to the Legislature. Prizes were 

 offered to the pupils securing the largest 

 number of signatures. First prize was 

 awarded for a list of 1,286 names and the 

 second for a list of 1,064 names. All the 

 separate lists, when pasted together, meas- 

 ured over seventy feet in double column 

 of names. Therefore, in single column the 

 length of the petition would have been one 

 hundred and forty feet. 



The petition was to place the Robin on 

 the list of birds protected by law at all 

 times in Florida. The bill passed the 

 Legislature on May 20, 1913. 



In the picture the little girls standing 

 on the ladder are the winners of the prizes 

 for the largest lists of signatures, Eva 

 Hardee and Lenora Pearce; and from left 



AIGRETTES SEIZED IN RAID ON TRANSVAAL FEATHER COMPANY 



