8 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



The Committee will at once take up the subject of extending the 

 organization through southern France and Italy, where enormous numbers 

 of songbirds are annually killed for food and where no adequate restrictive 

 legislation now exists. 



Bills pending in Parliament and in the United States Congress to 

 prohibit the pouring of crude oil in territorial waters will be given sup- 

 port, and similar measures will be sought in other countries with a view 

 of ultimately getting international action to stop this nuisance, which is 

 responsible for the killing of millions of birds annually whose feathers 

 become soaked in this oil that is poured on their feeding grounds. 



Mr. Pearson, who has returned from studying bird protective matters 

 in France, Holland and England reports that the general subject of bird 

 protection in those countries is not handled in the highly efficient manner 

 that obtains in so many of our States. "For example," he said, "there are 

 no game wardens employed by Provincial or National Governments in 

 any of these countries. Practically the only protection wild birds have 

 ever been afforded is on hunting estates, and here the attention of the 

 privately employed gamekeepers is devoted almost entirely to game-birds 

 that are raised for shooting purposes." 



Mr. Pearson speaks of his disappointment in finding storks so scarce 

 in Holland. "Round platforms on poles are erected all over the country," 

 he said, "for the accommodation of these birds, but the last two years 

 storks have almost entirely disappeared, and throughout northern Holland 

 I found only one pair? nesting. It is reported that the birds have been 

 killed by eating grasshoppers poisoned by farmers in the Transvaal, Africa." 



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