456 Eifrig, Bird Protection in Foreign Lands. Lbct. 



Spring shooting of clucks and shorebirds is prohibited in most 

 Provinces, which is more than can be said of some States in the 

 Union. Restrictions on the shipping of game are in force, where 

 it is not entirely forbidden, as well as hunters' licenses. From 

 personal interviews the writer knows that Sir Wilfred Laurier is 

 heartily in accord with the idea of bird protection, he is in fact a 

 great lover of nature and close observer of birds. Not so much can 

 be said of the present Minister of the Interior, but even he was 

 willing to set aside islands in the lakes of the great northwest as 

 bird reservations. If the A. O. U. or the National Audubon 

 Society would send one or two well posted people to Ottawa, 

 when the political waves do not run as high as now, no doubt 

 something could be done to help in establishing bird refuges on 

 what is practically worthless land, to have parts of the shore of 

 the oceans put under the surveillance of the light house tenders 

 and life savers, etc. Meanwhile birds are fully protected at all 

 times in the extensive national and provincial parks and forest 

 reservations.] 



In France, unfortunately, conditions are not so favorable, they, 

 in fact, being more like those of Belgium and Italy. While the 

 cause of ornithology and bird protection has recruited a powerful 

 protagonist in the "Revue francaise d 'Ornithologie scientifique 

 et pratique," published monthly by Henri Tressier in Orleans 

 and ably edited by M. Louis Denise, librarian of the National 

 Library, and Dr. A. Menegaux, assistant curator at the National 

 Museum in Paris, strong complaints continue to be voiced regard- 

 ing the wholesale killing of small insectivorous and song birds in 

 southern France. M. Perier, a deputy from that part of the 

 country, has calculated that in his election district alone no less 

 than 700,000 birds had been caught and killed in five months! 



[In Germany the idea of bird protection is probably most 

 thoroughly and systematically carried out. The birds always 

 had a better chance there — except in the districts where netting 

 was formerly carried on, a practice which has now been stopped 

 by an act of the Reichstag — because the gun "toting" habit, 

 so prevalent here, was always unknown, especially on the part of 

 boys. But now, since the Reichstag passed the famous law just 

 alluded to, followed by the legislatures of the different states, 



