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rushed into print to crv out that things are not going as they had antici- 

 pated; that they agreed on the supposition that only rare birds, which they 

 do not want, and feathers obtained with cruehy (the existence of which 

 thev deny I were really and truly to be inhibited. '"Moulted" and 

 "farmed" feathers, they argue, should thus come in freely, together with 

 birds of any abundant species. This would suit them nicely. And now, 

 behold, the Committee and the legal advisers of the Board have construed 

 the Act to mean what it says. It says nothing about "extermination" or 

 "cruelty," or about "feathers" from this place or that. The word used 

 is "bird," and it is birds, not selected plumages, which may be added to 

 the schedule. The presumption is, therefore, that the egret is saved; that 

 wild birds' plumage will now cease to come into the London market, save 

 by smuggling; and that, when accumulated stores are exhausted, women 

 will no longer be able to adorn themselves with "murderous millinery" 

 otherwise than by saving up their out-of-date decorations or by personally 

 importing the banned feathers on their hats. 



CHECK-LISTS 



In our mention of Check-Lists sent in during the past year in a recent 

 issue, we failed to record the names of Ruth Newman Haeuber, age 13, 

 and Walter Haeuber, age 11, of Framingham, Mass. These two interested 

 students have recorded on their lists altogether 68 birds. In a footnote 

 they say, "We saw the meadowlark about the third week in February, 

 the robin on the 10th of March and the bluebird on the 14th." The use 

 of Check-Lists among the junior bird students is increasing. They are a 

 very convenient form for recording birds seen and are furnished free by 

 the Society. 



THE PLACE TO SEE PUFFLNS 



Those who wish to see Puffins alive, says the State Ornithologist, may 

 do so by spending their vacations at Perce Gaspe County, P. Q., where the 

 Bonaventure Island-Perce Rock Bird Sanctuary is situated. In this region 

 they may see murres, razor-billed auks. Leach's petrels, double-crested cor- 

 morants and kittiwakes, as well as other water birds, all in their breeding 

 plumage. Perce is easily reached by rail or motor. Hotel accommodations 

 are good, but limited. 



PURPLE MARTINS 



The inquiry concerning purple martins, eave swallows and bank 

 swallows made in the May Bulletin brought quite a number of replies. 

 Mrs. T. Francis Capeles, of Haverhill, reports a colony of purple martins 

 at Georgetown on the farm of Mr. Alfred Kimball and bank swallows 

 in the Mt. Washington District of that town. Miss Anne E. Farrington, 

 also of Haverhill, reports a large colony of eave swallows at Salisbury 

 Beach and bank swallows between Salem, New Hampshire, and Methuen, 

 Mass., not far from the Spickett River. Miss Maude A. Graves of South- 

 ampton reports eave swallows from that town. 



