50 BIRDS OF THE NEW YORK CITY REGION 



*Florida Gallinule Heath Hen 



Avocet Passenger Pigeon 



Black-necked Stilt Fish Hawk 



*Woodcock *Barn Owl 



Dowitcher Pileated Woodpecker 



Knot *Acadian Flycatcher 



Pectoral Sandpiper *Least Flycatcher 



Marbled God wit Raven 



Hudsonian Godwit Bobolink 



Upland Plover *Cardinal 



Long-billed Curlew Dickcissel 



Eskimo Curlew Summer Tanager 



Golden Plover *Purple Martin 



Piping Plover *Cliff Swallow 



Wilson's Plover *Warbling Vireo 



Oyster-catcher *Yellow-throated Vireo 



*Bob-white *White-eyed Vireo 



*Ruffed Grouse *Kentucky Warbler 



Fortunately there is a brighter side to the picture. The 

 abolition of market hunting, the enactment and enforcement 

 of wise game laws, especially the abolition of spring shooting, 

 have had a marked effect. Numerous birds are now abso- 

 lutely protected throughout the year, and the term " game- 

 bird" is applied to a small remnant of species only. The 

 millinery trade in native birds has been killed, and the pos- 

 session of native song-birds as cage pets has long been 

 contrary to law, and the craze has died out. Much of this is 

 due to the activity of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the protection of birds, led by a few able, far- 

 sighted and enthusiastic men. There is perhaps no better 

 example of an utterly unpopular cause turned into a more 

 brilliant success. Be this as it may, the labors of these men, 

 and the wise laws they have advocated, are slowly but surely 

 bearing fruit. In the last fifteen years there has been a 

 marked and gratifying increase of certain species, acquain- 

 tance with which locally was in my boyhood almost outside 

 the bounds of reasonable hope. It will be noted that some 



