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time become universally observed, and yet greater private 

 and public efforts directed towards bird conservation. 



In this important work the well-known Audubon 

 Society, with its various branches in the different States, was 

 a pioneer; and it was largely because of its intelligent ex- 

 ertions that not only protective legislation, but the splendid- 

 ly effective methods of Public School instruction and wide 

 circulation of ornithological literature have, together, suc- 

 ceeded in drawing the public attention. 



"It is the diffusion of this wide-spread knowledge of the 

 economic, as well as the aesthetic importance of birds," says 

 Dr. Chapman, "which has made it possible to secure the 

 passage and enforcement of effective laws for their protec- 

 tion; and it is in this continued and increasing interest in 

 birds, not alone as our efficient co-workers in garden, field, 

 orchard, and forest, but as the most eloquent expression of 

 nature's joy and freedom, that we shall doubtless find a true 

 measure of their greatest value to man." 



SEQUESTRATION 



It is, however, in the recent movement for the creation 

 of special reservations, absolute sanctuaries for the protection 

 of bird life, that the awakening of public interest has shown 

 its culminating effect; for these reservations "combine all the 

 measures serving for the protection of birds."* 



Such sanctuaries may be of vast extent, as our great 

 National Parks in the West; or they may comprise but the 

 tiniest garden plot in the outskirts of one of our great eastern 

 cities. In either case they are of almost inestimable value, 

 and afford, within their limits, satisfactory solutions for al- 

 most every problem — food, shelter, protection from maraud- 

 ing creatures, and nesting facilities. 



♦How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds, by Martin Hieseman. 

 Translated by Emma S. Buchheim, London. Witherly & Co., London, 

 316 High Holborn 



This little book is most valuable, and a classic upon the subject. 



