I02 DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. f'f'^ 



Agreement between the Members of the Millinery Mer- 

 chants Protective Association of New York and the 

 Audubon Society of the State of New York. 



The members ot" the Millinery Merchants Protective Association hereby 

 pledge themselves as follows : 



To abstain from the importation, manufacture, purchase or sale of gulls, 

 terns, grebes, hummingbirds and song birds. 



To publish monthly in the Millinery Trade Review a notice informing 

 the millinery trade in general that it is illegal to buy, sell or deal in gulls, 

 terns, grebes, hummingbirds or song birds, and that no means will be 

 spared to convict and punish all persons who continue to deal in the said 

 prohibited birds. 



To notify the millinery trade by printed notices as to what plumage can 

 be legally used. 



To mail printed notices to all dealers in raw materials, importers and 

 manufacturers of fancy feathers and to the millinery trade in general that 

 all violations of the law will be reported to the proper authorities. 



// is further agreed on the part of the Millinery Merchants Protective 

 Association that on and after January i, 1904, the importation, manufac- 

 ture, purchase or sale of the plumage of egrets or herons and of American 

 pelicans of any species shall cease, and the said birds shall be added to the 

 list of prohibited species mentioned above. 



// is understood and agreed that the restrictions referred to in this 

 agreement as to gulls, terns, grebes, herons and hummingbirds, shall 

 apply to the said birds irrespective of the country in which they may 

 have been killed or captured. 



The Audubon Society of New York State on its part hereby agrees as 

 follows : 



To endeavor to prevent all illegal interference on the part of game ward- 

 ens with the millinery trade : to refrain from aiding the passage of any 

 legislation that has for its object restrictions against the importation, manu- 

 facture or sale of fancy feathers obtained from domesticated fowls or of the 

 plumage of foreign birds other than those specifically mentioned above. 



// is agreed by each of the parties that this contract shall remain in 

 force for a period of three years from the date of its execution. 



FOR THE AUDUBON SOCIETY OF FOR THE MILLINERY MERCHANTS 



NEW YORK. PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION. 



Frank M. Chapman, George Legg, President., 



Chairman of the Charles W. Farmer, Secretary. 



Executive Committee . 



The above agreement, is concurred in by the Amei-ican Ornithologists' 

 Union. 



William Dutcher, 

 C/iairman Protection Committee. 



