Monthly Bulletin 1 



BIRDS OF KILLINGWORTH 

 The Community Motion Pictures Company, 46 West 24th Street, 

 New York City, are the sole agents for the United States of the Massa- 

 chusetts Audubon Society's beautiful bird film, "The Birds of Killing- 

 worth." This is being received with marked enthusiasm wherever 

 shown. It is a two-reel picture and is available for bird clubs, schools, 

 or societies wherever there is an opportunity to use a standard motion- 

 picture machine. Application for the use of this film should be made 

 direct to the foregoing address or to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 

 66 Newbury Street. 



THE KATAHDIN GAME PRESERVE 

 The Katahdin Park Game Preserve was created on June 20th of 

 this year, when Commissioner Willis E. Parsons of the Maine Fish and 

 Game Department signed a decree making it unlawful to catch, hunt, 

 chase, or kill any living animal or bird in the Mt. Katahdin region. The 

 decree is effective for four years. The new preserve is the wildest, most 

 rugged and picturesque portion of Maine, and included in it are some 

 of the State's best hunting-grounds. 



BOOK NOTES 



The Conservation of Wildlife in Canada 



By C. Gordon Hewett, D. Sc. 



Without doubt the most valuable and comprehensive treatise on 

 Canadian wild life that has been published is this book with its fifteen 

 chapter heads and its twenty-three remarkable full-page illustrations 

 besides text figures, map and chart. The volume makes a splendid 

 text-book on the wild life, past and present, of North America, for it is 

 only in Canada that any considerable portion of this, especially the 

 large mammals, is still to be found. The book is replete with informa- 

 tion, full of interest and charm, and is a compelling plea for a concerted 

 effort toward the preservation of these birds and mammals now threat- 

 ened with extinction. 



Canada has made notable progess in conservation of late years. 

 Its wild-life reservations cover over thirty thousand square miles, not 

 counting its bird sanctuaries which are numerous and widely scattered. 

 It has of late years framed and passed many admirable protective laws. 

 In the planning of these laws and the bringing of them to pass the 

 author had a large part. The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the North- 

 west Game Act and many lesser but important measures were either 

 his inception or he had in their success a most potent influence. His 

 intimate knowledge of Canadian wild life gives the book peculiar value, 

 not only to the naturalist but to the conservationist. It is published 

 by Charles Scribner's Sons, and the price is $2.50. 



