26 Report of Coinmittee o>i Bird Protection. \^tn 



" The Game Laws of Illinois last year were more carefully 

 enforced than for many years, and a great many arrests were 

 made among idle boys who were shooting small species, such as 

 Robins, Woodpeckers, etc. I think the same watchfulness will 

 be continued this year." 



In a later communication Mr. Deane writes as follows : 



" Fashion in feather ornamentation has not materially changed 

 since I wrote you in detail in the spring. We occasionally see 

 the heads or wings of some of our native species worn in their 

 natural color, yet the tame Pigeon and Egret head the list in this 

 section of the country. 



" I wrote you before that I had endeavored to use infiuence in 

 the protection of Herons in a certain ' Crane Heaven ' on the 

 Kankakee River in Indiana. During two trips in the past two 

 weeks in that region I find, quite to my satisfaction, that no raids 

 were made on the heronry last spring and summer, as had yearly 

 been the custom of the native boys and, I am sorry to say, some 

 so-called sportsmen. My appeal may have done some good, but 

 the fact that a bad fire played havoc in the woods near the her- 

 onry, made the approach much more difificult. 'J'he location 

 where the Night Herons bred, a long stretch of low ' pucker 

 brush ' bordering the marsh, was wiped out by fire, but the birds 

 evidently found another favorable site, for they are much more 

 abundant now than I have seen them in years. 



" I have been living this summer at Highland Park, a small 

 town twenty-five miles up the Lake shore. The authorities have 

 taken strict action against the killing of insectivorous and song 

 birds, and have posted that section of the law on the trees and 

 public buildings of the town. The unusual abundance of many 

 of the summer resident birds is no doubt the result of the enforce- 

 ment of the law." 



California. 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis reports for California as follows : — 

 " Several days ago I sent you a ' separate,' giving some account 

 of the havoc that is being made by the light keepers among the 

 sea birds on South Farallon Island — the sale of eggs to collectors 



