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now famous Bayne law, which absolutely prohibits 

 the sale in that state of any American wild game, 

 no matter where killed, and strictly limits the sale 

 of all foreign game. It does permit the importa- 

 tion and sale of six species of game birds and 

 mammals that are very commonly killed in Europe 

 on preserves and sold for food; and it also permits 

 the sale, under official state tags, of white-tailed 

 deer, mallard ducks, black ducks and pheasants 

 that have been bred and reared in captivity in New 

 York, and killed and tagged according to law. 



This law had the immediate and visible effect of 

 stopping fully one-half of the enormous annual 

 duck and goose slaughter on Currituck Sound, 

 North Carolina, and it directly benefited each 

 of the sixteen states in the line of annual flight of 

 about 150,000 unkilled wild fowl. The action of 

 New York was immediately followed by similar 

 action in Massachusetts; after which, in 1913, the 

 state of California also wheeled into line. The 

 California law is now being attacked by a petition 

 for a referendum, and the enemies of wild life 

 have found 20,000 persons who were unwise enough 

 to sign against the new law. 



At present the principal remaining plague-spots 

 for the sale of wild game are New Haven, Provi- 

 dence, Baltimore, Washington, Richmond, Atlanta, 

 Chicago and Denver. 



The most sweeping victory for birds that up to 

 this date (1914) has been achieved was that which 



