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10. If the present war of extermination is to be terminated, 
drastic measures must be adopted, and resolutely carried out ; 
and the crusade for protection must be general. No half-way 
measures will suffice ; and it is to be expected that some of the 
destroyers will be displeased. 
RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING Birps.—While at first thought 
it may seem impossible to propose a series of universal laws for 
bird protection that can save our bird fauna from annihilation, 
even if adopted by the different states, we believe it will be found 
on close examination that the task is not nearly so difficult as it 
seems. The difficulty lies, not in the framing of comprehensive 
measnres, but in securing their adoption in the various groups of 
states wherein they are needed. ‘The business of securing the 
enactment of legislation is a separate question, and need not be 
discussed here. As to the character of the legislation that would 
be most effective, there are certain demands so imperative as to 
be perfectly obvious, and the laws that would satisfy them would 
be so universally beneficial, their enactment would be desirable 
to every state and territory, save two or three. They are as 
follows : 
1. Prohibit all egg-collecting, except under license from state 
game commissioners, and the payment of a license fee. 
2. Provide for the extermination of the English sparrow. 
5. Prohibit the sale of dead game, at all seasons.* 
4. Prohibit the killing or capture of wild birds, and of quad- 
rupeds, other than fur-bearing animals, for commercial purposes 
of any kind. (This will stop the slaughter of birds for millinery 
purposes). 
5. Prohibit all spring shooting. 
6. Prohibit the carrying or using of a gun without a license. 
7. or three years prohibit the killing or capture of any birds, 
except such birds of prey as may be declared by the U.S. Bio- 
logical Survey to be sufficiently noxious to merit destruction. 
The only exception should be in favor of persons desiring to col- 
lect for scientific purposes, 2 moderation, and then only when 
properly vouched for by some scientific institution, and duly 
licensed by the state game commissioners. 
*This has long been earnestly advocated by /orest and Stream, and 
the proposition is constantly gaining advocates. It is also one of the 
planks in the platform of the League of American Sportsmen. 
