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 Butcher. President 

 1'rederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



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



Samuel T. Carter, 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: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000 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 Kive and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

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



THE TREATY WINS 



The treaty between the United States 

 and Canada for the protection of migratory 

 wild birds was ratified by the United 

 States Senate on August 29, 1916, after 

 having been signed on August 16, 1916, 

 by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State, and 

 Cecil Spring Rice, the British Ambassador. 

 This, it is believed, is the first treaty deal- 

 ing with the fortunes of birds that has 

 ever been consummated. It covers the 

 principle of the McLean Federal Migra- 

 tory Bird Law, and its accomplishment 

 was brought about after two years of 

 continuous effort on the part of the bird- 

 conservationists in this country and in 

 Canada. Its final ratification by the 

 Senate was made possible in part by the 

 united labors of bird-lovers and sports- 

 men, but more particularly by the earnest 

 and tactful efforts of Senator George P. 

 McLean, of Connecticut, who, as all men 

 know, is America's great bird-friend in the 

 United States Senate. There yet remains 

 the formality of sending the treaty to 

 England for ratification by the king, and 

 its return for exchange of ratifications. 

 Congress will then pass an enabling act 

 for the enforcement of its provisions and 

 the work will be complete. No opposition 



is expected to the accomplishment of 

 these final details. 



Space is here given to the full text of 

 this treaty in order that the readers of 

 Bird-Lore may have the opportunity of 

 reading the exact language of this im- 

 portant document. 



Treaty for the Protection of Migratory 

 Birds in the United States and Canada 



Whereas many species of birds in the 

 course of their annual migrations traverse 

 certain parts of the United States and the 

 Dominion of Canada; and 



Whereas many of these species are of 

 great value as a source of food or in 

 destroying insects which are injurious to 

 forests and forage plants on the public 

 domain, as well as to agricultural crops, in 

 both the United States and Canada, but 

 are nevertheless in danger of extermina- 

 tion through lack of adequate protection 

 during the nesting-season or while on their 

 way to and from the breeding-grounds; 



The United States of America and His 

 Majesty the King of Great Britain and 

 Ireland and of the British dominions 

 beyond the seas. Emperor of India, being 



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