84 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 



How the reindeer ran so swiftly, 



Why the rabbit was so timid, 



Talked with them whene'er he met them, 



Called them Hiawatha's Brothers.' " 1 



The boy collector must be taken in hand by the 

 teacher, as will be shown in the next section. 



The professional and the amateur collectors must be 

 handled by the public press and by the courts. Let 

 the Audubon Society, the humane societies, the League 

 of American Sportsmen, and the state game wardens 

 work hand in hand on these nuisances without any 

 jealousy. Where a warning might be sufficient no 

 prosecution should take place. The state game war- 

 dens and the L. A. S. will gladly look after the law- 

 breakers that are made known to them. It is, of course, 

 not advisable to make complaints of this kind in court 

 against one's neighbors, but where societies are in ear- 

 nest they can easily find means to make unlicensed col- 

 lectors very uncomfortable. When collections are to 

 be made for really worthy purposes, the state game 

 warden should issue a license. 



The trade in mounted song birds and in bird eggs 

 must be suppressed. Let every lover of nature show 

 what he thinks of the persons in this trade, and of the 

 papers and magazines facilitating it. You participate 

 in the wrong, if you give any moral or business support 

 to any of them. In a paper which pretends to work 

 in the interest of game protection I find the following 

 advertisement : " Learn to Stuff Birds," etc. Then 

 1 See also Longfellow's " The Birds of Killingworth." 



