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Bird -Lore 



honeysuckle, which, as well as the bush 

 honeysuckle, has edible berries. 



Surround this hedge by a border of rich 

 «arth a foot wide, in which plant either wild 

 strawberries, transplanted from the fields, or 

 the castaways from the home bed, and 

 every six feet stick in a plant of the Lucretia 

 dewberry. Then, when this is once started, 

 hands off; don't peek and pry and intrude, 

 — simply let Nature take her course and the 

 Attest will survive. 



If, in due time, a tree or shrub is blown 

 ■over or dies, still keep your hands in your 

 pockets; the charitable vines will soon hide 

 its downfall and prepare a retreat from 

 which a Carolina Wren may send forth his 

 delicious notes. Let the leaves lie where 

 they fall; who knows but what a quail 

 may take a notion to nest among them ! If 

 ■strong canes of wild blackberries and barbs 

 of greenbrier make a fence about the 

 shrubbery, so much the better; the prowling 

 cat must stay outside, the snake finds 

 climbing uncomfortable, and for all else, 

 wild bird and wild rabbit alike, the wild 

 hedge should be Sanctuary. 



M. O. W. 



Notes and News 



The Directors of the National Associa- 

 tion held a meeting for organization and 

 •election of officers January 30, 1905. 



The officers elected were as follows : Presi- 

 dent, William Dutcher ; vice-president, 

 John E. Thayer; second vice-president, 

 Theodore S. Palmer; secretary, T. Gilbert 

 Pearson ; treasurer, Frank M. Chapman. 



This being a year when legislative ses- 

 sions are held in forty-three states and ter- 

 ritories, law-making is active ; and neces- 

 sarily the officers of Audubon Societies have 

 had to be alert and watchful to defend good 

 bird- and game-laws now in force and to 

 work aggressively for new legislation. 



Missouri. — A new law in this state was 

 greatly needed for several reasons: it is a 

 great cold-storage center; the present law 

 is absolutely worthless ; the state is a great 

 game country, and, finally, because the 

 Audubon bill introduced at the 1903 session 

 of the legislature was killed by boodle. 

 The Audubon Society, while discouraged 



at that time, was not disheartened, but re- 

 newed the fight at this session. Fortunately, 

 the chairman of the House Fish and Game 

 Committee was the Hon. Harry R. Walms- 

 ley, one of the vice-presidents of the Mis- 

 souri Audubon Society. He made a splendid 

 fight for House Bill No. 15, and was sup- 

 ported by all real sportsmen, the Audubon 

 Society and the press of the state. The bill 

 is practically the same as the one defeated 

 in 1903 and is the A. O. U. model law, 

 and, in addition, a complete game- and 

 fish-law, providing very short open seasons, 

 no sale, and a bag limit. The bill success- 

 fully passed both branches of the legislature 

 and has been approved by Governor Folk. 

 It is hoped that the Audubon Society will 

 in some measure become legally responsible 

 for the enforcement of the new law. 



South Carolina. — A bill copied almost 

 verbatim from the Louisiana model law has 

 passed both branches of the legislature and 

 has been approved by the Governor. The 

 A. O. U. model law is now in force in every 

 coast- wise state in the union, with the ex- 

 ception of Alabama. 



Florida. — Early in 1904, it was discov- 

 ered that a commercial bird-skin collector, 

 J. R. Jack, of Punta Gorda, was sending 

 to so-called scientific dealers in the New 

 England states and Canada, skins of the 

 rare and almost extinct Ivory-billed Wood- 

 pecker which were collected in direct viola- 

 tion of the Florida law, inasmuch as Jack 

 did not have a permit from the Secretary of 

 Agriculture of Florida to collect for scien- 

 tific study. 



In a letter Jack stated : " I have no more 

 Ivory-bills to sell at $15. I offered you 

 what I had at your own price, and, if you 

 can't pay that, all good and well ; I will 

 keep my birds. I also note what you say 

 regarding the birds in small doses. As for 

 my part, I prefer them in as large doses as 

 I can get. I now have orders for quite a 

 lot, and expect to get them if they are in 

 the state, and I think they are. As soon as 

 I can get off, I expect to go and get all the 

 birds I left. I am also counting on getting 

 some Everglade Kites and a few Paraquets." 

 So far as known, this species of Wood- 

 pecker is now to be found only in a very 



