248 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIRD WORLD 



3. Loyally and vigorously support the National Govern- 

 ment and your own state authorities in enforcing most 

 vigorously all the terms of the new federal law for the protec- 

 tion of our six hundred and ten species of migratory birds. 



4. Insist upon it that your state shall afford full and ade- 

 quate protection to all your grouse, quail, wild turkeys (if 

 any) and all other birds that are not migratory. 



5. Help to close all the markets of your state against the 

 sale of all native wild game save that reared in captivity, and 

 officially tagged for sale by your state authorities. 



The Vastness of the Bird World. — Go where you will 

 upon this earth — save in the great deserts — some members 

 of the bird world will either bear you company, or greet you 

 as you advance. Some will sing to cheer you, others will 

 interest and amuse you by the oddities of their forms and 

 ways. On the mountain backbone of the continent, you 

 will meet the spruce grouse, the raven and the mountain 

 jay. In the foot-hills and on the great sage-brush plains, the 

 stately sage grouse and the garrulous magpie still break the 

 monotony. 



In the fertile regions of abundant rain, bird life is — or 

 rather was once — bewildering in its variety. In the tropics, 

 the gorgeous Colors and harsh voices of the birds remind you 

 that you are fairly within another world. In mid-ocean, the 

 stormy petrel causes you to wonder how it survives the storms. 

 On the bald mountains of Alaska, or the barren shores of the 

 Arctic Ocean, the snow-white ptarmigan may be the means of 

 saving you from death by starvation; and when you discover 

 new lands in the mysterious and forbidding waters of the 



