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and the nefarious traffic in the feathers of slaughtered mother birds will no 

 longer be permitted to flourish in Pennsylvania. 



FEDERAL LEGISLATION 



When, on March 4, President Taft signed the McLean Federal Migratory 

 Bird Law, there was placed on the statute books a measure for which this 

 Association had been working ever since the subject was lirst brought to 

 public attention by George Shiras, 3rd, in 1905. While practically all organi- 

 zations and individuals interested in bird-protection had been actively engaged 

 in securing support in Congress for this bill, it is not probable that it would 

 have passed when it did but for the energetic actions of the ofl&cers of the 



CAMP OF RHETT GREEN, WARDEN 01 ( ORKSCREW ROOKERY, FLORIDA 

 The Rookery begins in cypress swamp, shown in background, and extends for four miles deep into 

 the "Big Cypress." Photographed by T. Gilbert Pearson 



American Game Protective and Propagation Association, whose recent en- 

 trance into the field of American bird-protection we warmly welcome. 



The set of^regulations regarding the killing of migratory birds which 

 have since been prepared by Doctor Palmer, Doctor Fisher and Professor Cooke 

 for the United States Department of Agriculture, and which now have the 

 authority of law, is on the whole probably as complete as it is expedient 

 to establish at this time. Later, it will doubtless be found possible to make 

 certain changes and readjustments. When this is done, we hope it may be 

 possible to extend protection to the much-persecuted Bobolink in certain 

 states where the killing of these birds is now permitted. 



Early in the year your Secretary received a letter from Mr. Henry Oldys, 

 of Washington, D. C, calling attention to the fact that some years ago an 



