26 Report of Committee on Bird Protection. 
“The Game Laws of Illinois last year were more carefully 
enforced than for many years, and a great many arrests were 
made among idle boys who were shooting small species, such as 
Robins, Woodpeckers, etc. I think the same watchfulness will 
be continued this year.” 
In a later communication Mr. Deane writes as follows: 
‘Fashion in feather ornamentation has not materially changed 
since I wrote you in detail in the spring. We occasionally see 
the heads or wings of some of our native species worn in their 
natural color, yet the tame Pigeon and Egret head the list in this 
section of the country. 
‘“‘T wrote you before that I had endeavored to use influence in 
the protection of Herons in a certain ‘Crane Heaven’ on the 
Kankakee River in Indiana. During two trips in the past two 
weeks in that region I find, quite to my satisfaction, that no raids 
were made on the heronry last spring and summer, as had yearly 
been the custom of the native boys and, I am sorry to say, some 
so-called sportsmen. My appeal may have done some good, but 
the fact that a bad fire played havoc in the woods near the her- 
onry, made the approach much more difficult. The location 
where the Night Herons bred, a long stretch of low ‘ pucker 
brush’ bordering the marsh, was wiped out by fire, but the birds 
evidently found another favorable site, for they are much more 
abundant now than I have seen them in years. 
“T have been living this summer at Highland Park, a small 
town twenty-five miles up the Lake shore. The authorities have 
taken strict action against the killing of insectivorous and song 
birds, and have posted that section of the law on the trees and 
public buildings of the town. ‘The unusual abundance of many 
of the summer resident birds is no doubt the result of the enforce- 
ment of the law.” 
CALIFORNIA. 
Mr. Leverett M. Loomis reports for California as follows : — 
“« Several days ago I sent you a ‘separate,’ giving some account 
of the havoc that is being made by the light keepers among the 
sea birds on South Farallon Island — the sale of eggs to collectors 
