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Bird - Lore 



•WHITE PELICANS AMONG THE SAGE-BRUSH NEAR CLEAR LAKE 

 Photographed by William L. Finley 



and the plumage shipped to wholesale milliners. This investigation of the 

 National Association led to the first important step in saving birds in that 

 region, by the establishment of three great wild-bird reservations, embracing 

 Lower Klamath, Clear, Malheur, and Harney Lakes. The market-men and 

 plume-hunters have resisted from the beginning, and are now making a big 

 effort to get back what they have lost, so that they can finish their work of 

 extermination. Lovers of wild birds on the Pacific Coast, and especially in 

 California, feel that they never can repay the National Association for its 

 generous contributions toward the establishment and maintenance of these 

 great wild-bird nurseries, and in aid of the campaign to sustain the 

 non-sale law. 



Since the model bird-law was passed by the Oregon legislature in 1903, 

 the sale of aigrettes, and of the plumage of other native birds, has been stopped 

 almost entirely. A few years ago, a mail-order business sprang up on the 

 Pacific Coast, and aigrettes and other forbidden plumage could thus be 

 obtained from New York and Philadelphia, when they could not be purchased 

 on this coast. This cut into the trade of both wholesale and retail milliners 

 here, and they asked for a law prohibiting the wearing of such plumage. This 

 law was passed by the Oregon legislature in 19 13. When it went into effect, 

 public notice was given that it was to be enforced. A woman was employed 

 as warden, persons wearing aigrettes were told that they were violating 

 the law, and in each case the plumes were confiscated by the state. Where 

 plumes were given up without resistance, and a promise made to obey the law, 

 no arrest was made; in fact, it has not been necessary to take a single case 

 into court. This was the result of the newspapers of the state backing up this 



