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as looo are sometimes caught in one setting of the net, largely 

 Song Sparrows and Yellow-throats. 



In Arkansas Mrs. Stephenson and Mrs. Sara T. Thomas have 

 been very active in distributing bird protection posters to the sher- 

 iffs, school superintendents, mill owners, etc., a work that cannot 

 fail of good results. Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey urges the same 

 plan of action among the ranches of the southwest. She found at 

 Carlsbad, New Mexico, great flocks of wading birds of all sorts in 

 the irrigated fields, and to anyone in search of either plumes or 

 game, wholesale slaughter would be an easy matter. " The indif- 

 ference and ignorance," she says, "of the ranchmen in regard to 

 birds makes them largely careless of their destruction and the 

 question suggests itself : Should more effort be made to reach the 

 ranchmen and farmers with bird protective literature "^ This 

 might perhaps be done in the East through the granges and in the 

 West through agricultural journals." 



On the whole, the present status of our work is most encourag- 

 ing, and in closing I can only urge those who are aiding us to 

 continue their support, feeling sure that the results amply justify 

 our efforts. 



WiTMER Stone, 

 Chainnan A. O. U. Committee on the Protection 

 of North American Birds. 



RESULTS OF SPECIAL PROTECTION TO GULLS AND 

 TERNS OBTAINED THROUGH THE 

 THAYER FUND. 



Plate I. 



"I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any 

 beautiful thing, but will strive and comfort all gentle life and guard and 

 perfect all natural beauty on earth." — From John Ruskin's ' Declaration^ 



The second year of the special work of the Committee en- 

 trusted with the administration of the Thayer Fund has passed, 



