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In Sweden a similar activity is shown by the "Ladies' Society 

 for the Protection of Animals," whose president is the Countess 

 Anna Runth. This society is lately organizing the young people 

 of the country for its purposes and this will, no doubt, lead to 

 better protection for birds. 



Switzerland. The little model republic, naturally takes no 

 back seat also in this matter. It is fully abreast with other coun- 

 tries. Here too the women are just now doing good work for the 

 cause. Thus the 'Ligue feminine romande contre la destruction 

 des oiseaux pour la parure' has lately issued a brochure entitled 

 ' Le massacre des oiseaux et les crimes de la mode,' in which the 

 pernicious results of the wholesale slaughter of birds to satisfy 

 the whims of fashion are pointed out. This agitation is also 

 carried into the daily papers and into the schools. 



[For the United States, the great work carried on by the Audu- 

 bon Society, under the excellent and self-sacrificing leadership of 

 Mr. W. Dutcher, is highly commended.] 



Venezuela, even, has fallen in line and has determined upon a 

 generous and, as is to be hoped, efficient policy to avert the threat- 

 ened extinction of the beautiful egrets which are to be found there. 

 On the 18th of April, 1910, a special law was passed, in which all 

 killing of the egret is forbidden. This has sent a cold shudder 

 down the spines of the Parisian feather dealers, who thereupon 

 got a bogus "naturaliste-explorateur" to write a pamphlet in 

 which he bravely lied that when the plumes of the egrets were 

 taken not a single bird was killed, etc. [How much this falsehood. 

 is one "of whole cloth," was recently shown in 'The Auk' and in 

 'Bird-Lore.'] 



And finally Brazil has taken its place among the enlightened 

 nations. On the 15th of January, 1909, a law was passed which 

 protects all birds that are beneficial to agriculture and also pro- 

 hibits the killing of rheas, gulls, terns, storks and herons, as also 

 the taking of eggs and destroying of nests and the taking away of 

 the nestlings. It is made incumbent upon the municipal councils 

 to make this decree known as widely as possible and to enforce 

 its provisions. 



N. B. The matter in brackets has been added by the translator. 



