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latter reports a membership of 200, and that it has distributed 

 some thousands of the National (."ommittee leaflet No. 2, 'Save 

 the Birds.' It also has an illustrated traveling lecture which is 

 tloinj; good educational work. No report was submitted by the 

 Keokuk society. 



K KNIUCKV. 



Legislation. — During the past year the American Ornithologists' 

 Union model law for the protection of non-}i;anie birds was adopted 

 in this Stale. 



Wart/en System. — No wardens were employed in Kentucky; 

 3,000 muslin warning notices, giving the text of the bird law, 

 displayed in the i)ost officcts of the State, were furnished by the 

 Thayer I'lind. 



Aitduhon Work. — The Kentucky Society is a very small one, 

 having only 100 members. About 500 leaflets were distributed, 

 in addition tcj tlu; warning notices. One library of bird books is 

 in circulation. Two convictions under the new law have Ix-en 

 obtained. 



Louisiana. 



Legislation. — On June 26, 1902, a new game law was approved 

 by the Governor. It gives partia^l protection to six species of non- 

 game birds, but leaves unprotected all of the other valuable and 

 beneficial non-game birds of the State. It permits the trapping 

 and caging of Mockingbirds and Redbirds "for domesticating 

 ])urposes." This practically means that the live bird dealers, who 

 make their headquarters in New Orleans, can send out their 

 trappers and secure Mockingbirds and Cardinals enough to supply 

 the rest of the world. If the citizens of Louisiana awake some 

 day to the fact that their gardens and fields have been denuded 

 of these beautiful singers they will know that her legislators saw 

 fit in 1902 to refuse to pass the A. O. U. model law, which had 

 l)een introduced. The Hon. J. A. Mcllhenny made a strong 

 but uphill fight for the bill, which was finally defeated by the 

 influence of the cage bird dealers. 



