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efforts will be made to enforce the federal 

 migratory-bird law in the Eastern District 

 of Arkansas until Judge Trieber's decision 

 has been reversed by a higher court. It will 

 take a year, or perhaps two years, to carry 

 a case up through the courts and get a 

 final decision from the United States 

 Supreme Court. In the meantime, how- 

 ever, the bird-protection treaty now 

 pending between this country and Canada 

 may be signed. According to the reported 

 opinions of Elihu Root and other con- 

 stitutional lawyers this would then take 

 the subject entirely out of the courts, and 

 the treaty agreements would prevail. It 

 is clear, therefore, that the very important 

 task of impressing the United States 

 Senators with the wish of the American 

 people that the treaty be ratified now 

 devolves upon bird-lovers. 



Legal Struggles in Maryland 



In reference to recent wild-life legis- 

 lation in Maryland, W. Scott Way, 

 reports: 



The new general law appears to have 

 repealed all local laws conflicting with it, 

 in which case the state will have a uni- 

 form season for the more important spe- 

 cies. Another measure, repealing and 

 reenacting the non-game-bird law, shows 

 some improvements over the old act, but 

 is not as it should be. I see no reason why 

 the Legislature could not have been 

 induced to pass the Model Audubon Law, 

 while it was about its tinkering, but the 

 state game-warden, with whom I took the 

 matter up early in the legislative session, 

 persuaded me that there was no hope for 

 success along that line; and, as there 

 seemed to be a general indifference on the 

 part of everybody concerned, save Miss 

 Starr and myself, I let the matter drop. 



I regret that the effort to put through 

 a hunting-license law failed because of 

 strong opposition from many counties. 

 The politicians seem to be afraid of it, 

 but, at the next session, with the right 

 kind of force behind it, I believe it can be 

 put through. My observation has been 

 that at the past three sessions of the 

 Maryland Legislature failure has been 

 mainly due, in the matter of up-to-date 

 game and bird laws, to the lack of the 

 right sort of man at Annapolis. An effort 

 was made to remove protection from the 

 Turkey Buzzard, but by active work, in 



which I was aided much by Dr. Henry 

 Oldys, I succeeded in having this measure 

 confined to the town of Easton, where 

 the proposition originated. This will, 

 therefore, do little harm. 



Mutually Satisfactory 



The accompanying capital photograph 

 illustrates admirably the Audubonian 

 way of "killing two birds with one stone," 



TWO DELIGHTFUL GUESTS 

 Photographed by Carl E. Purple 



— a shot from a camera. The parallel, 

 indeed, is double. The photographer fed 

 two birds at once, and took their pictures 

 for his pay, using but a single plate. This 

 was as economical as the result is pretty. 

 Both parties to this amiable arrangement 

 were perfectly satisfied. The photographer 

 gets his credit; the Woodpecker is living 

 on the fat of the land; and the Nuthatch 

 may be said to be in clover. The lesson 

 of the picture is as obvious as is its beauty. 



