Cbe ^utiubon ^ocietie^ 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 141 Broadway, New York City 



Membership in the National Association "builded far better than he knew" when his 



$5.00 paid annually constitutes a person a Sustaining love for wild life led him tO leave to this 



$100.00 pa?^'a"?one time constitutes a Life Membership Association a substantial legacy. If the 

 $1,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Patron National Association had not been placed 



$5,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Founder . . . . '^ 



$15,000,00 paid constitutes a person a Benefactor in ItS present Strong position through this 



benefaction, it would not have been able 

 FORM OF BEQUEST ' , 



, , , . , , , T^ *° carry on the enormous amount of legis- 



/ do hereby give ana bequeath to Ihe , . i ^u ^ •. u j i • 



National Association OF Audubon SociE- '^^'^^ ^°'''^ t^^* •' ^as done during the 

 TIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF WiLD BiRDS present legislative season. Heretofore, it 

 AND Animals (Incorporated) , of the City of was only after the most careful consideration 

 Neix) York, antl under the most urgent stress of circum- 



stances that money could be appropriated 

 for legislative work, but this year we have 



— " had able and energetic representatives doing 



missionary work at a number of capitals. 



The detailed story of legislative work 



Legislation which follows will show to the members of 



This issue of Bird-Lore might well be the Association and the readers of Bird- 



called the legislative number, as all of the Lore how important this branch of our 



matter in the Executive Department will work is. 



relate only to legislative proceedings through- 

 out the country. 



While much of the story will show that 

 the Association has been successful in many 

 of its attempts for better legislation and the 

 defeat of bad legislation, yet, unfortunately, 

 in some important cases the forces that have 

 combined against us have been successful. 

 In the entire experience of the President of 

 the Association in legislative work, the year 

 1907 surpasses all the others in the number 

 of bird and game bills that have been intro- 

 duced; they certainly number several hun- 

 dred. It is true that many of them are local 

 bills of little importance, but, on the other 

 hand, many of them seem to have emanated 

 from market-hunters and game dealers who 

 are becoming very restive under the pressure 

 of restricted opportunities for killing and 

 selling the fast-disappearing game birds and 

 animals of the country. 



Our great benefactor, Mr. Willcox, 



Congress and the Biological Survey 



While the story of how the House Com- 

 mittee on Agriculture attempted to end the 

 existence of this valuable and important 

 Bureau is familiar to many of the members 

 of the Association, because they took an 

 active and prominent part in continuing the 

 Survey, yet to others this episode will be 

 entirely new; further, it is well to place 

 such matters on permanent record. 



When the agricultural appropriation bill 

 was reported in Congress by the committee 

 in charge, it was discovered that no ap- 

 propriation whatever had been made for the 

 Bureau of Biological Survey. This meant 

 that this important and necessary Bureau 

 would be legislated out of existence, which 

 would have been such a serious handicap 

 and loss to the work of the National Associa- 

 tion that it would have taken years to have 

 overcome the setback. There was only one 



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