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are instructed that this law must be strictly observed, and they must, 
therefore, decline to receive any such birds for transportation.” Mr. 
Thayer also wrote: ‘“ We have requested the Adams Express Company 
to issue a similar notice to express agents, to cover service by express.” 
This agitation has aroused the whole State, and farmers are posting 
their land. The public press gave valuable aid, and it is probable that 
every person in Delaware now knows the reasons for bird protection. It 
is hoped that another Audubon Society may result. 
The Union has always found the U. S. Lighthouse Board very heartily 
in sympathy with the work of bird protection, and it has lately issued 
the following order to the district officers of all the lighthouse districts 
on the Atlantic, Gulf, Northern Lake, and Pacific coasts: “The Board 
_requests you to issue a circular letter to all light stations in your district 
cautioning light keepers against the violation of the game Jaws of the 
States in which they may be stationed, and to inculcate in them a spirit 
of protection, not only of the game birds, but of song birds, and of all 
bird life.” 
Our member, Mr. Abbott H. Thayer, recognizing the frightful destruc- 
tion of the Gulls and Terns that has been going on for a few years past, 
and the immediate necessity for special protection for the small remainder, 
made an appeal to the public through a selected list of newspapers, for 
funds to be used in hiring wardens to protect the birds while nesting. 
Already quite a large number of subscriptions have been received by the 
Treasurer, aggregating $600. Active efforts are being made to locate 
breeding colonies of seabirds along our Atlantic seaboard, and as fast as 
any are found, to obtain the services of a trustworthy and fearless warden 
to protect them during the breeding season. AIl the Massachusetts 
colonies of Terns are being cared for as usual this year by their devoted 
guardian, our fellow member Mr. Geo. H. Mackay. The Tern colony 
that was driven from Great Gull Island, N. Y., when it was occupied by 
the General Government as a site for a fortification, has gone to Gard- 
iners Island, N. Y., where they are atforded absolute protection by the 
owner, Mr. John Lyon Gardiner, and Mr. F. Aug. Schermerhorn, who has 
the shooting rights on the island. Both of these gentlemen are ardent 
and enthusiastic bird protectors. 
Arrangements have already been made to protect the Terns breeding 
_in southern New Jersey, and the U. S. Lighthouse Board has issued 
special orders to the light keeper at the Great Duck Island Light Station, 
Maine, to prevent the destruction of the colony of Herring Gulls that 
live on that lighthouse reservation. Plume hunters and milliners’ 
agents, having nearly exterminated the sea birds on the southern and 
middle Atlantic coast, have attacked our northern seaboard. Maine 
ornithologists complain that commercial houses in New York and 
Boston send agents along the Maine coast offering to purchase all the 
seabirds that can be killed. In one case a dealer furnished guns and 
ammunition to the Quoddy Indians to help on the dreadful work. In 
