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birthday. We are sure that the entire membership of the A. O. U. which 
he has served so long and faithfully will endorse the action of the Plummer’s 
Island gathering in wishing him many happy returns of the day. 
Mr. Harry 8. Swarts of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoélogy at Berkeley, 
Calif., is now in southern Arizona studying the breeding birds of the region 
between Phoenix and Globe along the ‘Apache Trail’. As a result of this 
trip Mr. Swarth will doubtless be able to supplement the notes in his 
‘List of the Birds of Arizona’ on the local distribution of some of the 
species which occur in this part of the State. 
As an illustration of the vital interest that is being taken throughout the 
country in the passage of the Migratory Bird Treaty Enabling Act; and 
as an example to other associations and individuals who have not yet 
written to their representatives in Congress, it gives us great pleasure to 
announce that at a meeting of the Executive Committee of the National 
Association of Game and Fish Commissioners held at Washington, D. C., 
on the 13th day of June, 1917, present, M. L. Alexander, President; Carlos 
Avery, Secretary; John P. Woods, Treasurer; J. Quincy Ward, Geo. H. 
Graham, and W. E. Barber, the following resolution was unanimously 
adopted: 
WHEREAS, There is pending in Congress a bill (S. 1553 — H. R. 2612) 
to give effect to the migratory bird treaty between the United States and 
Great Britain for the protection of migratory game and insectivorous birds 
in the United States and Canada; and 
WHEREAS, The conservation and protection of the migratory insectivo- 
rous birds is so closely related to the conservation of the food, cotton and 
timber crops of the country, and the migratory game birds constitute an 
important source of the food supply, the conservation of which is so neces- 
sary to the success of the United States and her Allies in the war upon which 
we are now engaged; 
THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, It is the sense of the Executive Committee 
of the National Association of Game and Fish Commissioners that the 
said bill is and should be considered an important war measure, and we 
respectfully recommend the immediate passage of said bill by Congress 
as one of the most effective means of conserving the resources so necessary 
for the welfare of the country; 
RESOLVED FurRTHER, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to 
the President of the United States, to each Member in Congress, and 
to the Secretary of Agriculture. 
JusT as we go to press we are in receipt of an important work by Dr. 
W. H. Bergtold entitled ‘A Study of the Incubation Periods of Birds,’ 
published by The Kendrick-Bellamy Co. of Denver, Colorado. It will be 
duly noticed in the October Auk. 
