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Stringent, laws prohibiting sale and shipment have been enacted in Missouri 

 and Nebraska. These and the equally sweeping legislation of Michigan, 

 Minnesota, and Wisconsin can be and are rigidly enforced through the 

 cooperative influence of the Federal law and the support their enforce- 

 ment secures from the strong public sentiment that caused their adoption. 

 In Chicago alone thousands of birds illegally shipped have been seized, 

 and from the evidence thus secured many of the shippers in other States 

 have been brought to justice. Under the Federal law more than 50 

 convictions have been secured, and in nearly half of these cases fines of 

 $100 or more have been imposed. In each of three cases they amounted 

 to $150, in two to $200, and in two others to $400." 



It is only a few years since the rapid annual decrease of game birds in 

 general and of certain species of nongame birds began to attract general 

 attention; the ornithologists of the country and a few sportsmen interested 

 in the preservation of game alone foresaw the doom speedily awaiting 

 many species of our most desirable birds unless measures were promptly 

 taken to check the slaughter waged by market gunners and the milliner's 

 emissaries. The campaign of education, instigated and directed largely 

 by members of the American Ornithologists' Union, has resulted in the 

 rapid growth of a healthy public sentiment in respect to bird preservation, 

 rendering it possible to secure the enforcement as well as enactment of 

 efficient State and Federal laws before such action became too late to be 

 effective. As shown by Dr. Palmer's recital of present conditions, the 

 crisis in game protection is apparently passed and the outlook eminently 

 hopeful. — J. A. A. 



Game Protection in 1905. — Dr. Palmer's report on 'Game Protection 

 in 1905' ' treats of legislation, decisions of courts, administration and 

 enforcement of laws, condition of game, feeding game, importations of 

 live mammals and birds, and game preserves. The year 1905 was "chiefly 

 noteworthy for volume of legislation, more effective enforcement of laws, 

 and experimental and practical work in maintaining and increasing the 

 stock of game." Substantial progress was made in solving the problem 

 of restricting hunting by unnaturalized foreign-born residents, the closing 

 of the game markets of Kansas City and St. Louis, the systematic feeding 

 of game, and the importation of several promising species of game birds, 

 as the introduction of the Gray Partridge, Capercalzie, and the Black 

 Game, chiefly to Grand Island, Michigan, and of Mexican quail into North 

 Carolina and Massachusetts. More attention is given to game preserves 

 by several different States, and several bird reservations were set aside 

 during the year by the United States. — J. A. A. 



1 Game Protection in 1905. By T. S. Palmer, Assistant, Biological Survey. 

 Yearbook of U. S. Depart, of Agric. for 1905, pp. 611-617. 



