56 Bird -Lore 



the expenses of the same being borne by a liberal and public -spirited corpo- 

 ration that was organized for another purpose. The magnitude of the 

 undertaking was too great for any person or corporation to carry on unaided, 

 the actual physical labor and the great expense were beyond the strength or 

 purse of anything but a cooperative movement among the several states and 

 the contributions of hundreds of individuals. There was also a total lack 

 of supporting laws, nor was the warden system adopted during the first 

 movement. 



Origin of the Second, or Present Audubon Movement. — The second cycle 

 of bird protection practically commenced in January, 1896, when the sys- 

 tem of State Audubon Societies was started by the -organization of a Society 

 in Massachusetts; this was followed by one in Pennsylvania, and thereafter 

 state organizations followed in rapid succession, until now there are societies 

 in thirty-five states, one territory and the .District of Columbia. Many of 

 these societies are large ahd flourishing ones, some of them being incorpo- 

 rated. The Society in North Carolina is unique in that it acts in that 

 state as a Game Commission with power of appointing bird- and game- 

 wardens who can arrest violators of the game-laws. 



Uniform bird legislation was found to be absolutely necessary and has 

 rapidly been secured, so that at this date the model law is in force in 

 twenty-eight states, one territory and the Northwest Territories in the 

 British Provinces. In addition, the Audubon Societies, individually and 

 through the National Association, have exerted avast and valuable influence 

 in game-bird protection, having found it impossible not to become 

 interested and involved in this important branch of economics. All of the 

 societies stand emphatically for short open seasons, no spring shooting, 

 non- export, no sale of game, and every known method of preserving the 

 rapidly diminishing game-birds of the country. 



Another of the gains is the powerful auxiliary to Audubon work, the 

 very excellent illustrated magazine BiRD-LoRE, now in its seventh volume, 

 which is the organ of the societies, and is a medium of exchange of 

 thought, methods and news between the several state Societies, and serves 

 to keep them in touch with one another; further, it is a means of com- 

 munication between the officers and committees of the individual societies 

 and their members. This magazine is of the highest character, being 

 scientifically correct and correctly popular; the editor having kept up to the 

 high standard promised in his editorial in the first number, February, 1899. 

 The several societies and bird lovers at large can in no surer way advance 

 the cause of bird protection than by extending very widely the circulation 

 of our official organ, BiRD-LoRE. 



The Thayer Fund. — Early in 1900 Fashion had again attacked the Gulls 

 and Terns, and dealers said that the demand for these skins far exceeded the 

 supply. An appeal to bird lovers was made by Mf. Abbott H. Thayer, and 



