NOTABLE FLORIDA^ANCTUARIEST~ 



Within a few years Florida has become noted for its bird sanctuaries, 

 Federal, State, county, municipal, privately donated, even in one or two 

 instances endowed. In fact, the latest available official report on this score 

 shows the State as having within its borders more than half of the larger 

 havens and reservations now in existence. 



There are eleven Federal reservations of importance on the Florida 

 coast, Atlantic and Gulf, namely, Dry Tortugas, Pine Island, Key West, 

 Pelican Island, Mosquito Inlet, Island Bay, Passage Key, Matlacha Pass, 

 Palma Sola, Indian Bird Key, and Caloosahatchee. Add to this the Audu- 

 bon Reservation of Orange Lake. 



One State reservation is a matter of pride, Royal Palm Park, in the south- 

 ern peninsula, tropically wooded, comprising nearly two thousand acres. 

 This is under the wardship of the federated women of the State, is carefully 

 guarded from fires or any hostile invasion; and, from careful count, it has 

 been found that practically every species of the four hundred birds fre- 

 quenting Florida is to be found within these confines at one season or an- 

 other. 



