6 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



BIRD PICTURES 



Colored pictures of birds are always in demand and can be had at the 

 Audubon Society office. The leaflets of the National Association are best 

 known. These retail at five cents each. The colored plates of "The Birds 

 of New York" are on sale here, neatly bound copies being much in demand 

 at $2.50 each. The Society is always adding to its list of available pic- 

 tures of birds and other natural objects in colors. Certain publications of 

 the National Geographic Society have had these from time to time and 

 are now out of print and hard to get. The Audubon Society has a few 

 copies of these rare back numbers of the "Geographic" on sale at 60 cents 

 each, postpaid. They are as follows: 



June, 1913 — "Fifty Common Birds" in color. 



May, 1914 — ^"Birds of Town and Country" — 64 pictures in color. 



May, 1915 — "American Wild Flowers" — 29 illustrations in color. 



August, 1915 — "American Gamebirds" — 20 pages in color. 



June, 1916 — ^"Common American Wild Flowers" — 16 pages in color. 



November, 1916 — "Larger North American Mammals" — 32 pages and 

 frontispiece in color. 



April, 1917 — "Friends of our Forests" — Warblers^ — 8 pages in color. 



June, 1917 — "Our State Flowers" — 16 pages in color. 



May, 1918 — "Smaller North American Animals" — 32 pages in full 

 color. 



April, 1920— "The Crow" (not colored). 



June, 1920 — "National Parks" — colored pictures. 



May, 1920 — "Common Mushrooms" — colored pictures. 



FORBIDDEN FEATHERS 



The law forbidding the sale or possession of the feathers of native 

 birds is very well observed in this State, at least so far as the stores 

 dealing in millinery are concerned. This is the Federal law, and the 

 milliners live up to it. Now and then a representative of the Society 

 inspects the stock offered for sale and rarely does he find cause for 

 complaint. When such has occurred, the responsible store official has 

 pleaded ignorance and has been quick to remove the cause. So far as 

 our native birds are concerned, it would seem as if the storekeepers are 

 really interested to obey the law. If genuine aigrettes, which of course 

 are forbidden, are sold, it certainly is not done openly or to any great 

 extent. Not so much can be said, however, of the plumes of birds of 

 paradise and of goura. Under the tariff the importation of these is for- 

 bidden. The law is explicit. It specifies the duty to be paid on crude or 

 manufactured feathers of domestic fowl. Then it says, "provided that the 

 importation of aigrettes, egret plumes, or so called osprey plumes, and 

 the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins or parts of skins of wild 

 birds, either raw or manufactured and not for scientific or educational 

 purposes, is hereby prohibited. But this provision shall not apply to the 

 feathers or plumes of ostriches or to the feathers or plumes of domestic 

 fowl of any kind. 



Now this tariff law was passed in October, 1913. It has been more 

 than seven years since bird of paradise feathers or goura plumes could be 

 legally imported. When it became known that this tariff act was about to 



