Vol. XXI 

 1904 



I DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. \ QQ 



said that she could no longer sell a hat with even a portion of a 

 bird on it to anv woman who had a child in our public schools. 



"We are hoping to be able to get some one prominent in orni- 

 thology to lecture at our annual meeting next spring. 



"The membership is now 22,214." 



Wyoming. — Legislation. — No change; the A. O. U. model law 

 is still in force. The next session of the legislature will be in 

 1905. 



Warden system. — No wardens were employed under the 

 Thayer Fund. 



Audubon work. — Eternal vigilance is the price of' good bird 

 laws. How the Wyoming Audubon Society prevented the passage 

 of an outrageous amendment to the present perfect law is best 

 told by President F. E. Bond : " I learned from my home paper 

 that three gun clubs in Cheyenne had held a mass meeting and 

 adopted resolutions recommending amendment of a new game 

 bill then pending in the legislature. One of these resolutions 

 demanded that the Mourning Dove, which was protected by our 

 ' model law ' of 190 1, be placed upon the list of game birds where 

 it might be shot for sport and the table. I at once wrote to the 

 Game and Fish Committee of both houses, the introducer of the 

 bill, some influential State senators, and the officers of the Audu- 

 bon Society, asking that the dove be let alone. My correspon- 

 dence arrived too late to accomplish anything in the House for 

 the bill had passed that body, with a dove slaughtering amend- 

 ment, before the letters arrived. However, our friends lost no 

 time when they understood the situation. They succeeded in 

 making quite a sortie on the ranks of the enemy. The Senate 

 struck out the obnoxious amendment and the House afterward 

 concurred without a fight. I think from the letters I received 

 that the protection people put up a good fight. 



" We are glad that the model insectivorous and song bird law 

 of Wyoming is still intact and believe we can so maintain it 

 against all comers. The law is strengthened by every failure in 

 attempts to amend it. 



" Some effort was made to amend the game bird law by making 

 the close season cover the months of spring migration, but this 

 failed, owing to the efforts of the gun clubs, and because no one 



