Appendix B. 



Progress in Game Protection since the First Edition 

 OF this Volume was written. 



Since the brief .summary of needed reforms for game pro- 

 tection given on pages 592 and 593 was written, many of the 

 recommendations contained therein have been adopted in 

 Massachusetts and other States, where in fact some had been 

 put into practice before tliis book was written. Already laws 

 had been passed in Massachusetts and elsewhere under which 

 bird reservations could be established. Since then still other 

 States have followed this example, and the reservations now 

 established under these recently enacted statutes are too 

 numerous for enumeration here. 



Many States in 1912 had prohibited the sale and export of 

 certain species of wild game birds, but now (1915) Massachu- 

 setts, New York and Illinois have forbidden the sale of wild 

 game birds, thus closing most of the greater northern markets 

 to wild-fowl and shore birds. These statutes embody pro- 

 visions allowing the sale, under suitable restrictions, of birds 

 raised in captivity or on preserves. 



The third recommendation made on page 593 advocates a 

 federal law for the protection of migratory birds. Such a bill 

 has been enacted into law by Congress after a strenuous legis- 

 lative campaign, led by the American Game Protective and 

 Propagation Society and ably seconded by many other asso- 

 ciations for the protection of wild life. It places the care of 

 migratory insectivorous and game birds in the hands of the 

 United States Department of iVgriculture, and gives the 

 Department the power to make regulations, having the force 

 of law, for the protection of such birds. These regulations, 

 made by a committee of the Biological Survey at Washington, 

 and approved by the President, are now in force; but the law 

 may not be sustained by the Supreme Court of the United 

 States, or, if it be so sustained, Congress may fail to make 



