Vol. XXI 

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I DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. -^^5 



funds at the disposal of the National Committee will permit, to 

 continue the protection in order to save from destruction the water 

 birds that migrate from the north and winter on the North Carolina 

 coast. It seems unwise to preserve the bird life on the North 

 Atlantic coast if it is not to be cared for in its winter home. Of 

 one of the wardens Secretary Pearson says : " We must keep this 

 valuable man in our service. I have never met a man who knows 

 him who does not declare him an exceedingly strong and fine 

 character. I believe most profoundly that he is doing a grand 

 work in educating public sentiment in that coast country." 



The shallow sounds and water ways of the North Carolina coast 

 are so very extensive that it seems imperative that the chief warden 

 should be furnished with a good seaworthy power boat, in order to 

 move rapidly from place to place. Thenaphtha launch experiment 

 in Florida has proved so very successful that the National Com- 

 mittee feels warranted in urging the friends of bird protection to 

 make specjal contributions toward a fund for the immediate 

 purchase of two 25-foot naphtha launches, one for use in North 

 Carolina, and the second in Northampton and Accomac counties in 

 Virginia. 



Audubon work. — Audubon work is progressing finely in this 

 State. Some details are furnished by the Secretary: "The work 

 of the Audubon Society of North Carolina for the past year may 

 be summed up under four heads. 



" /vW/, the securing of legislation which extends protection to 

 the non-game birds, and gives the Audubon Society the power of 

 naming game wardens throughout the State. 



'^Second, Efforts to build up the membership of the Society. 



" Third, The cultivation of a better sentiment throughout the 

 State for bird and game protection. To this end over fifty thou- 

 sand circulars have been distributed, articles prepared and pub- 

 lished in the press of the State, and the Secretary has given more 

 than thirty public lectures and talks on the subject. A junior 

 department has been established, with Mrs. W. C. A. Hammel, of 

 Greensboro, as Secretary. 



'^Fourth, The securing and paying of Bird and Game Wardens. 

 By the aid of the Thayer Fund three wardens were kept on the 

 coast the past summer with the result that about two thousand 



