24 WILD LIFE CONSERVATION 



The defenders of wild life have accomplished 

 results along the following lines : 



1. Seventy per cent of the killing of non-game- 

 birds has been stopped. 



2. The killing of game has been restricted to 

 open seasons, which have steadily been made 

 shorter. 



3. Long close seasons, usually for five years, 

 have been extended to a very few species threatened 

 with local extinction. 



4. The sale of game has been prohibited in 

 seventeen states. 



5. They have achieved the complete suppres- 

 sion of the importation of wild birds' plumage for 

 millinery, and the equally complete suppression of 

 the use of native birds as hat ornaments. 



6. They have brought about the creation of a 

 really great number of national and state game- 

 preserves and bird refuges. 



7. There has been a partial suppression of the 

 use of extra-deadly firearms in killing birds. 



8. Finally, the army of defense has secured the 

 enactment of a law placing all our 610 species of 

 migratory birds under the protection of the federal 

 government. 



Of all these protective and restrictive measures, 

 the one of greatest importance to the orchards and 

 forests of our country is the law for the federal pro- 

 tection of migratory birds, named in honor of 

 Senator George P. McLean of Connecticut, who 



