The Audubon Societies 



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of Audubon Societies. The boxes are 

 designed to accommodate Tree Swallows, 

 Bluebirds, Chickadees, and Wrens. Some 

 of the springs in the Mt. !Meenahga terri- 

 tory will be set aside for the use of the 

 birds, so that they may bathe and drink 

 in these natural pools without fear of 

 molestation. 



"The educational possibilities of making 

 bird-reserve work a feature in a summer 

 resort are patent. It is for the uninformed, 

 the indifferent, or the skeptical, that a 



Mr. Roosevelt in setting apart reserva- 

 tions as refuges for breeding birds. On 

 May 6, 1913. he segregated as a reserve 

 Petit Bois Island, a long sand-beach in the 

 Gulf of ^Mexico near the adjoining coasts of 

 Alabama and Mississippi. On July 17, 

 19 13, he established as a reservation 

 Blackbeard Island, a large marshy and 

 bushy island at the entrance of Sapelo 

 Sound, on the coast of Georgia. On June 

 6, 1914, he constituted Smith and Minor 

 Islands, near the south shore at the western 



NESTING-BOXES FOR MT. MEENAHGA BIRD-SANCTUARY 



Photographed by .\lbert H. Pratt 



picturesque demonstration of the benefits 

 of living with our feathered friends is most 

 desirable, as an object-lesson and an in- 

 spiration. It is hoped that the interest 

 aroused in the Alt. Meenahga reserse will 

 serve as an awakening to many visitors, 

 and that they will be moved to make 

 some personal experiment in bird-protec- 

 tion in their home communities." 



New Federal Bird-Reservations 



President Wilson has continued the 

 beneficent practice of his predecessors since 



end of the Strait of San Juan de Fuca, 

 connecting Puget Sound with the Pacific 

 Ocean, a bird-reserve. The last-named is 

 especially important, as both of these 

 rocky islets bear lighthouses, whose keep- 

 ers will always be present to prevent 

 raids upon the breeding sea-birds that 

 congregate there. Finally, on September 

 4, 1913, .\naho Island, in Pyramid Lake,. 

 Nevada, was made a reserve. As^ this is 

 within an Indian Reservation it is doubly 

 protected against spoliation, and will be 

 a boon to many kinds of ducks and shore- 

 birds. 



