die Hububon ^ocietiei 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON. Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Dutcher, President 

 Frederic A. Lucab, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Cartbr, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$S annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 Sioo paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 Si ,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



A CASE IN POINT 



In the last issue of Bird-Lore were re- 

 produced some photographs of a ruined 

 White Ibis rookery, which Dr. Herbert R. 

 Mills stated had been destroyed by 

 "sportsmen" who had wantonly shot the 

 birds. Such raids on the bird-life of Florida 

 have been made frequently by northern 

 visitors to the state. A striking example 

 of this habit has just come to public notice. 



In the February issue of Scribner's 

 Magazine, a writer, after referring to the 

 pleasures he enjoyed while catching 

 tarpon at Bocagrande, says: 



"Birds were always flying around the 

 boat; Gulls, Man-o'-wars, Pelicans, and 

 when we weren't fishing we were potting 

 at them with a Winchester .22. The Big 

 Chief was a wizard with a rifle, and even 

 skimming Swallows were none too swift 

 or too small for his Deadeye Dick precision 

 of aim. After cutting down a sailing Man- 

 o'-war, two hundred yards above the 

 water, and surely three hundred yards 

 away, he formed a Man-o'-war's Club; any 

 body who killed one flying was entitled to 

 membership." 



All these birds are protected by the 

 laws of Florida and at least one of them 

 by the United States Migratory Bird Law. 

 There is no open season for any of them. 

 The man who wrote this is not a poor, 



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illiterate inhabitant of the southern 

 swamps, who killed the birds to sell their 

 feathers for a few dollars with which to 

 help feed his family; but is a successful 

 writer of novels and stories, many of 

 which you and I have bought and read 

 with pleasure. Incidentally, by our pur- 

 chase of his work, we have aided in 

 swelling his royalties, thus enabling him 

 to go to Bocagrande, and doubtless else- 

 where, where he might amuse himself from 

 time to time in the very delectable sport of 

 shooting harmless non-game birds. This 

 man is John Fox, Jr. 



As a result of the work of this Asso- 

 ciation, the Pelican colonies in Charlotte 

 Harbor near Bocagrande have been made 

 Federal bird-reservations. While attempt- 

 ing to protect one of them, Columbus G. 

 McLeod, one of our wardens, had his head 

 chopped open and his body sunk in the 

 harbor by persons who did not approve 

 of his zeal. These birds — the wards of 

 the Government, the birds that the 

 Audubon Society's members have been 

 giving money to protect, and the birds for 

 which one good man has given up his 

 life— these birds afford targets for Mr. 

 John Fox Jr., and his friends; and 



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