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LARGE BIRD SANCTUARY Omaha, Nebr., has a new 500-acre bird 

 AT OMAHA. sanctuary, which was dedicated on June 



17, 1916, by the presentation of Percy 

 Mackaye's bird-masque 'Sanctuary.' 



AN ENGLISH BEQUEST Captain Lord Lucas of the R. F. C, a former 

 FOR THE BIRDS. president of the British Board of Agriculture, 



who was killed in France last November, 

 bequeathed to the Hon. L G. Grenfell lands in Norfolk to be kept as a 

 preserve for rare birds and provided an annuity of £250 to carry out this 

 purpose. 



PROTECTION OF Despite its rapid spread and its destructiveness the 

 THE STARLING. starling is still on the protected list of several of the 

 States in which it is now found, though it is likely 

 that other States will soon follow the lead of Vermont, Connecticut, New 

 York, and Massachusetts in denying it legal protection. In Australia and 

 New Zealand it has developed into a serious pest. Its beneficial services in 

 destroying insects, which are considerable, have proved to be a greatly 

 insufficient offset to its destruction of fruit. 



BIRD SANCTUARY Steps are being taken to make a bird sanctuary of 

 AT RADFORD, VA. the grounds of the State Normal School at Rad- 

 ford, Va. Among the shrubs and trees recently 

 planted to furnish food, shelter, and nesting sites for birds are crab-apple, 

 dogwood, black gum, cedar, service-berry, beech, black haw, thorn-berry, 

 wild rose, hackberry, sumac, elder, and native and Russian mulberries. 



A NEW BIRD Bare Island, in Haro Strait (which separates 



SANCTUARY IN Vancouver Island from the mainland), is the 



BRITISH COLUMBIA. breeding home of a large colony of gulls, 



guillemots, cormorants, and puffins, and harbors 

 many geese during autumn and winter. It has recently been constituted a 

 bird sanctuary and the Provincial Museum at Victoria, an active Canadian 

 agent for bird protection, has been made its legal guardian. 



PROPOSED BIRD Illinois and Utah are undertaking to establish 



SANCTUARIES IN a largely increased number of bird and game 



ILLINOIS AND UTAH. sanctuaries within their respective boundaries. 



The Illinois plan is to lease for the nominal 

 sum of one dollar apiece a hundred tracts of 1,000 to 5,000 acres each, plant 

 and leave standing various kinds of grain on five acres of each tract and 

 construct brush-heap shelters with gravel and sand inside. Utah proposes 

 to set aside in all 250,000 to 350,000 acres and maintain in every county of 

 the State two sanctuaries — one for birds only and one for upland birds, 

 game birds, and mammals. 



