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eral law relating to Ducks. The close time for Snipe, Sandpipers, 

 Plover and Shorebirds was made to commence on the first day of 

 December, instead of the first of May. Kingfishers, Herons and 

 Loons were restored to the list of protected birds, with the provision 

 that the Commissioners of Inland Fisheries and Game have authority 

 to destroy such of these birds as are found about fish hatcheries and 

 feeding stations. The bag limit for Ruffed Grouse was reduced to 

 five birds in one day, and the limit for Woodcock to ten in one day. 



As an act, supplementing that, which prohibits the sale of birds 

 and game in the State, the purchase and sale of the various game 

 birds was made illegal. Also the sale by State officials, of game 

 seized, which had been illegally killed or transported, was forbidden, 

 the same to be given to the hospitals or other charitable institutions 

 and a receipt taken for the same by the officials. 



Maine also joined the ranks of the other New England States, 

 New York and New Jersey, in protecting Wood Duck perpetually for 

 a term, of four years. All of Maine, except Oxford county ! Cer- 

 tainly, the gentleman of the most noted Oxford county town, that 

 town which has furnished the country some leading men, is to be 

 congratulated for distinguishing his county as the only spot in New 

 England where Wood Ducks, universally regarded as approaching 

 extinction, can be shot during the next four years ! 



The annual meeting of the New England Federation of Natural 

 History Societies was held in Boston, April 21-22, 191 1. An 

 exhibition of specimens had been arranged and was successfully car- 

 ried out. Two of the exhibits, birds in boxes for loan purposes, and 

 bird skins in transparent celluloid tubes, for a similar purpose, were 

 of especial interest to readers of the Journal. Reports of the meet- 

 ing can be obtained of Mr. James H. Emerton, Secretary, 194 

 Clarendon street, Boston, Mass. 



Correspondents of the Journal will please note that they should 

 address Journal, 22 Elm street, Portland, Maine. The former 

 editor, Mr. Eegge, has moved out of the State, and is put to some 

 inconvenience to remail numerous communications sent to him. 



