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A MURRE BROODING AT THREE ARCH ROCKS, OREGON 

 Photographed by William L. Finley 



REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES 



California. — Much of the energy of our Audubon Society during the past 

 year has been expended to prevent the annulment of the FHnt-Cary Non- 

 Sale-of-Game Bill, which will come before the voters of California on Novem- 

 ber 3, 1914. This bill, prohibiting the sale of wild Ducks and wild Pigeons, 

 in addition to other game, the sale of which had been forbidden in California 

 for many years, was passed by large majorities in 1913, after a strenuous 

 fight in which the conservationists won. Certain unscrupulous game-dealers, 

 market-hunters, and hotel-men, in San Francisco, wishing to sell our game 

 during the Panama Exposition, in 1915, organized under the misleading name 

 of The People's Fish and Game Protective Association of California, invoked 

 the referendum and succeeded— often by fraudulent means, it is rumored— 

 in gaining the requisite number of names to place the measure on the ballot 

 at the general election; and those who would save our game must vote "Yes," 

 to sustain the action of the Legislature. That the people may know how to 

 vote, the California Associated Societies for the Conservation of Wild Life, 

 the newly organized Wild Life Protective League of America, the California 

 Audubon Society, and the California State Fish, Game, and Forest Protective 

 League, have been flooding the state with sample non-sale-of-game ballots, 

 properly marked. The Associated Societies also issued a fourth "wild-life 

 call," which we are helping them to distribute. The same men who invoked 

 the referendum on the Flint-Cary bill circulated an initiative petition which, 



