viii CONTENTS 



CHAPTER PAGE 



XXI. — The Conservation of Birds. — I. The Non-Game-Birds . 255 



XXII. — The Conservation- of Birds. — II. The Game-Birds . . . 271 



XXIII. — Preventing the Depredations of Birds 21)3 



XXIV. — -Encouraging the Presence of Birds 304 



APPENDIX 



I. — The Bird Law of the American Ornithologists' Union 317 



II.— The Lacey Bird Law 320 



III. — Some Fundamental Principles of Bird Laws . . ... 323 

 IV. — A Partial Bibliography of the Economic Belations of 



North American Birds .*!2l> 



Index 375 



