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own any in Texas. In these fourt3en States, the proposed system of 

 refuges can be secured only by purchase, or by a legislative act. 



"It is very much to the credit of the authorities in Pennsylvania that the 

 game-refuge plan has been adopted. The authorities of New York should 

 adopt the plan at once, and establish a large number of bird and game 

 refuges in the Adirondack and Catskill Parks. The setting aside of land 

 for a refuge does not necessarily mean that it cannot be occupied by man, 

 it simply means that when a bird or animal reaches these sacred precincts 

 its life is safe. 



"The refuge plan must necessarily in the future be largely by purchase or 

 lease or donation from individuals or societies. The Louisiana Audubon 

 Society has been veiy active in this work, and now owns or leases a large 

 number of islands .... 



"Thousands of memorial dollars are contributed annually to educational 

 or philanthropic institutions. We suggest that a beautifxil and appro- 

 priate memorial would be an island or tract of land dedicated in perpetuity 

 as a bird refuge in charge of this Association. It W'Ould be a lasting and 

 fitting monument." 



Besides the important work of searching out the breeding resorts of wild 

 birds on the keys and islets of the Gulf of Mexico, of the southern Atlantic 

 coast, and of the coast of Oregon and Washington, and elsewhere, and 

 securing their permanent reservation as protected breeding resorts of spe- 

 cies that would otherwise soon disappear, much effort is expended in secur- 

 ing better legislation for the protection of birds, and in defending from 

 repeal that which has already been obtained; in educational work in pub- 

 lishing and sending out hundreds of thousands of specially prepared 

 leaflets; in warden work, and in aiding and guiding the work of local so- 

 cieties. 



Although the Association has a large endowment, its income is far short 

 of its needs, which, as its work broadens, necessarily steadily increase. 

 The work already accomplished in the short period of its existence is as- 

 tonishing; the activities of its President, his resourcefulness in discovering 

 new lines of usefulness, his promptness in action in cases of emergency, 

 and his unselfish devotion to the great cause he has thus far so successfully 

 promoted, are a sufficient warrant for a most urgent appeal that his hands 

 be further strengthened by additional financial aid for the work that must 

 necessarily devolve upon the Association froin year to year as its work 

 advances. The provision for wardens for the rapidly increasing number 

 of reservations is alone a strong draft upon its resources, which fact should 

 appeal to the philanthropically disposed who have means at their command 

 for the aid of a work of the highest importance to the welfare of man, both 

 economically and esthetically. — • J. A. A. 



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