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living on Ihc it;lands, had prevented 

 wiiat siiooting he was able to. 



Conespondence was then made with 

 Mr. Butcher and Commissioner Carle- 

 ton, with the result that Mr. George E. 

 oushman of Cape Elizabeth was ap- 

 pointed a regular State v/jaden; also 

 made a special warden for the A. O. 

 U. Committee, being paid for his ser- 

 vices from the Thayer fund. Mr. J. P. 

 Haynes, living o.i the island, was also 

 made a special warden to work with 

 Mr. Cushman to protc-ct this colony of 

 Terns. 



Mr. Cushman proved a very con- 

 scientious warden, doing all in his 

 power to prevent any distruction of 

 birds or eggs. Several attempts were 

 frustrated from shooting the birds as 

 they came along the coast to feed. 

 One arrest was made fines collected 

 and foi-warded to the State treasury. 

 (Mr. Cushman has also visited the 

 millinery places this fall and winter). 



Mr. Knight's work began in the win- 

 ter by somt> agitation in tlie local 

 papers and by his request to Mr. Carie- 

 ton to send wardens into Bangor mil- 

 linery shops. The wardens came, 

 searched and made some seizures. 

 What little agitation this made, with 

 what was published in local papers, 

 set many people to thinking and some 

 good resulted therefrom. Mr. Knight 

 also gave what information and as- 

 sistance to Mr. Butcher he was able 

 to, relative to the larger colonies of 

 gulls and terns breeding in Penobscot 

 bay. Wardens were appointed along 

 the coast (light-house keepers when 

 possible) from Old Orchard to East- 

 port and some arrests were made. 



It is Mr. Butcher's purpose to con- 

 tinue the warden system on our coast 

 the coming season, if our laws are so 

 altered as to give a better chance to 

 protect the birds. There is much 

 work to be done along the protection 

 line in our State, and it is to be 

 hoped that our Society will be prom- 



inent in this work of bird protection. 

 (Signed). J. M. SWAIN, 



O. W. KNIGHT, 

 L. A. LEE. 



Mr. Jed Frye Fanning, Chairman of 

 the Committee to frame and propose at 

 the next Legislature measures for 

 better protection of birds made the 

 following report, which was accepted 

 for further consideration: 



An Act to amend Chapter 42 of the 

 Public Laws of 1899, entitled, "An Act 

 to consolidate, simplify, revise and 

 amend the laws pertaining to Inland 

 Fisheries and Game, as contained in 

 Chapters thirty and forty of the Re- 

 vised Statutes, and in amendments 

 and additions thereto, and to repeal 

 old and obsolete, private and special 

 laws pertaining to Fishing in the Pub- 

 lic Waters of the State." 



Be It Enacted by the Senate and 

 House of Representatives in Legisla- 

 ture assembled, as follows: 



Section 12 of Chapter 42 of the Pub- 

 lic Laws of 1899 is hereby stricken 

 out and the following section is in- 

 serted in its stead: 



Section 12. No person shall, within 

 the State of Maine, kill or catch, or 

 have in his possession, living or dead, 

 any wild bird other than a gami' bird, 

 nor shall purchase, offer, or expose for 

 sale, any such wild bird after it has 

 been killed or caught. No part of the 

 plumage, skin or body of any bird 

 protected by this section shall be sold 

 or had in possession for sale. Nor 

 shall an person within the State take 

 or needlessly destroy the nest or the 

 eggs of any wild bird, nor have such 

 nest or eggs in his or her possession. 



The English, or European House 

 Sparrow (Passer domesticus), the 

 common crow and the hawks and owls 

 are not included among the birds 

 herein protected; and for the purpose 

 of this act, the following only shall 

 be considered game birds; The ana- 



