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in stopping the sale of $150,000 worth of bird plumage seized by custom officials 

 of New York City, and gladly coming to the defense of the game-protective 

 departments in two states that were most unjustly attacked. We have pre- 

 sented framed pictures of birds to bird clubs, secured back numbers of Bird- 

 Lore for members who desired to complete their files; filed strong complaints 

 with state and Federal officials against the shooting of birds from aeroplanes 

 in New Jersey and Maryland; conducted correspondence with reference to 

 proposed bird treaties between the United States and the southern republics; 

 and aided in encouraging the establishment of cemeteries, parks, and other 

 territories as bird sanctuaries. 



A I-ILK OF 150 GOURA PLUMES SEIZED FROM SMUGGLERS AT THE PORT OK NEW VURK 

 AND PRESENTED TO THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



More than 60,000 letters at the New York office alone have claimed the 

 attention of the Executive Officer and the office force, and the Secretary has 

 personally engaged in such widely diversified activities as attending a legisla- 

 tive hearing on the Deer Law in Albany; supplying material on conservation to 

 the Czecho-Slovak Republic; investigating a reported sale of American Wood- 

 peckers in a New York bird-store, which turned out to be South American 

 Parrots; and explaining to a correspondent why the Association could not 

 immediately raise a fund of one million dollars to exterminate English Sparrows. 



The clerical force in the office at headquarters numbers about twenty, and 



