PREFACE 
In the following pages an effort has been made to 
point out several means for bird protection which can- 
not be embodied in legal enactments. We are always 
ready to pass a law against an evil, but too often we 
provide insufficient means to carry out and enforce the 
provisions of the law. This, I regret to state, is the 
greatest obstacle to the effective legal protection of 
song birds, game birds, and mammals. If the friends 
of birds and nature do not tire in the good work of 
educating the young of the nation on these subjects, 
the time will come when game wardens will have much 
less to do than now. Education works slow, but it is 
effective. 
My thanks are due to Mr. Wiliam T. Hornaday for 
permission to quote from his most interesting and val- 
uable report on “ The Destruction of our Birds and 
Mammals” made to the New York Zoological Society, 
and published by that society in its second annual 
report. Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenport of Brattleboro, 
Vermont, has contributed from her long experience to 
the chapter on Feeding Birds in Winter, and Mr. 
Frank Bond of Cheyenne, Wyoming, describes his very 
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