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Hawaiian Islands Reservation for the protection of the birds of the territory of Hawaii. 

 [Reefs and islets embraced within the broken lines.] From Circular 87, Biological Survey, 

 United States Department of Agriculture 



For purposes of administration these reservations are grouped in six 

 districts, known as the (1) Gulf, (2) Lake, (3) Mountain, (4) Pacific, (5) 

 Alaska and (6) Hawaiian districts. In time each district will be in charge 

 of a supervisory officer or inspector and probably each of the more important 

 reservations will have a warden to protect the birds, at least during the 

 breeding season. 



Types of Reservations 



Bird refuges are set aside because of their attractiveness to the birds 

 either as nesting places or as resting and feeding grounds during migration 

 or winter. They are usually small, sandy, marshy or rocky islands, unin- 

 habited, of little or no agricultural value, and attractive to the birds largely 

 on account of their isolation. These islands are located chiefly along the 

 sea coast or on some of the interior lakes. 



The insular reservations are well represented in the bird groups in the 

 American Museum. The brown pelican group is an exact reproduction of 

 Pelican Island. The white pelican and western grebe groups illustrate 

 the conditions on the Klamath Lake Reservation. The heron groups show 

 the home life in some of the Florida reservations, and Bird Rock and Cobbs 

 Island groups, while not national reservations, convey a very good idea 

 of the life of some of the rocky islands on the west coast and the sand bars 

 in the refuges in the Gulf district. In fact the expeditions of the Museum to 

 collect material for these groups and the publications of Mr. Chapman on 

 his trips and on the bird life here represented have done much to familiarize 

 the public with the reservations and to popularize this method of wild life 

 conservation. 



