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birds, for which purpose she will find the leaflets of great value as a basis 

 for the lessons. Bird-Lore does not accompany the leaflets, but is sent a 

 little later from the office of the publisher. 



When extra Leaflets are wanted they must be ordered by marking the 

 Blue Price List, dating and signing at the bottom, and sending a remittance 

 of five cents for every Leaflet ordered. These are sent from the Supply 

 Department of the Association, which is separate and distinct from the 

 Junior Department. The two separate orders and remittances may be in- 

 closed in the same envelope. Communications regarding change of ad- 

 dress, etc., should be sent to 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



NOTE — 1,446,956 Junior Audubon Members had been enrolled up to 

 June 1, 1920. 



SANCTUARIES IN PENNSYLVANIA 

 By Dr. John C. Phillips 



The sanctuary idea has really worked in Pennsylvania. Appro- 

 priations are available from the funds received through hunters' licenses. 

 There are now 24 tracts of land devoted to sanctuaries, ranging from 1800 

 to 3000 acres each. Plans are being laid to have 40 sanctuaries by 1921. 



I had a long talk with Commissioner Phillips of the Pennsylvania Fish 

 and Game Commission, a few months ago, and there is no doubt in my 

 mind that the scheme has become a successful one. It has resulted in 

 very marked increase of deer and turkeys. I was assured that grouse 

 are more plentiful upon the reserve areas than elsewhere, and incidentally 

 the bears and the introduced elk are protected. 



These areas in Pennsylvania, are of course, all inland, and, so far 

 as I know, do not offer any particular inducements to water-birds. There 

 are three sorts of areas set aside by the state — the game sanctuary, the 

 state forest land, and the auxiliary state game preserve. The first we have 

 mentioned, and it is often on state-owned land, so that free hunting is in- 

 sured around it. It is formed by co-operation with the State Depart- 

 ment of Forestry. Pennsylvania is, of course, lucky in having much more 

 state land than Massachusetts, hence these tracts are set aside with little 

 expense. As Massachusetts comes to have more state forest land (we 

 have a forest bill being considered now which provides for an additional 

 250,000 acres) we can do the same here. We can select certain favorable 

 areas within a state forest and make the sanctuaries at those points. A 

 beginning has been made in Massachusetts by creating a single-headed 

 Department of Conservation, with three departments under it. Those are 

 the Fish and Game, the Forestry, and the Department of Animal Industry. 

 This insures active co-operation between Fish and Game and Forestry in- 

 terests. 



Now, in Pennsylvania the sanctuary site having been selected, it is laid 

 out and administered in the following way: A fire line is cut around it 

 from ten to twenty feet wide, and on the inside of this a single wire about 

 the size of a telegraph wire is carried clear around the tract, waist-high, so 

 that nobody can enter without seeing or hitting the wire. At frequent in- 

 tervals along this wire notices are posted, calling attention to the enclosed 



