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Dr. John B. May, Cohasset, Massachusetts. Our Neighbors the Birds; 



Life and Habits of Birds; Methods of Attracting and Protecting Birds. 



Illustrated with colored bird portraits or lantern sUdes. 

 Walt F. McMahon, Secretary, Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective 



Association, Room 748, Tremont Building, Boston, Massachusetts. 



Intimate Views of Birds; Studying and Photograpliing Birds. Illus- 

 trated by lantern sUdes. 

 Walter K. Putney, Superintendent of Schools, Ashland, Massachusetts. 



Birds and their Value to all Mankind; Bird Lore and Curious Old-time 



Beliefs. Illustrated by lantern slides. 

 Mrs. Henry F. Whitcomb, Amherst, Massachusetts. Garden Planning 



and Planting to attract Wild Birds, etc.; Birds' Migrations; Economic 



and Artistic Value of Birds, etc. Illustrated by stuffed birds, skins, 



many colored plates and maps. 

 Horace Tajdor, 294 Walnut Street, BrookUne, Massachusetts. Life and 



Song of Native Birds; Evolution of Bird Life, etc. Illustrated by 



lantern slides. 

 Prof. Dallas Lore Sharp, Hingham, Mass. The Wild Life of Three-Arch 



Rocks. Illustrated by lantern slides. 



Legislation of the Year. 

 The most important legislation of the year was pot State but 

 national, affecting the birds of Massachusetts as well as those of 

 all other States in the Union, and those of Alaska and Canada. 

 The Federal law for the protection of migratory birds was the 

 outcome of two bills, one presented in the House of Representa- 

 tives by Hon. John W. Weeks of Massachusetts, and the other 

 filed in the Senate by Hon. George P. McLean of Connecticut. 

 These two bills were practically identical, and their provisions 

 were enacted into law by Congress in 1913 as recorded in the 

 annual report of the State Ornithologist for that year. This 

 was the first legislation of this nature that had been enacted in 

 the United States, and like all new and untried laws its pro- 

 visions must be perfected in the light of experience gained in en- 

 forcing them. But the enemies of the law are determined that 

 the Federal authorities shall have no such experience. These 

 enemies are found east and west, north and south, wherever 

 men want unrestricted opportunity to shoot migratory birds all 

 the time that they are there. Such men are perfectly willing that 

 protection should be given these birds while they are elsewhere. 

 The strongest organization opposing the Federal law was the In- 

 terstate Sportsman's Association, composed largely of gunners 



