Cbe ^utiubon ^ocietie0 



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 individuals bars the way for a more rapid 



„ . . advance. The hope for the future lies in 



$5.00 paid annually constitutes a person a Sustaining _ t- 



Member the fact that right always conquers in the 



$100.00 paid atone time constitutes a Life Membership .,.1. a j i i 1 



$1,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Patron end, and, as the AuduboH Workers know 



$5,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Founder jj^ ^^^ absolutely in the right in the work 



$15,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Benefactor ^ •' *= 



that they are doing for the preservation of 

 FORM OF BEQUEST the wild life of the country, our courage 



/ do hereby give and bequeath to The must not decrease and our determination to 

 National Association OF Audubon SociE- succeed must not be abated one instant. 

 TIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF WiLD BiRDS jugj here it is important to call attention to 

 and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ membership is entirely too 

 Neiu York, .. . . , ^ .... , . . 



small ; among the eighty millions of citizens 



-— of this country are there not a few thousand 



who will join in the movement to preserve 

 for future generations the wild life of North 



America? Members, publish among your 



friends the work of this organization and 

 Legislation ^^1^ them to give us their support and in- 



fluence. It is hard to see this civic effort 

 "The world is growing better— I know languish when the aid of a few thousands 



it. A great unceasing movement toward of interested persons would make the Asso- 



truth and goodness is carrying slowly for- ciation a great power for good. Bear in 



word ever the character of this great, rnjnj ^^at if the vigilance of the National 



mighty, mysterious humanity. How slow Association is relaxed an instant all of 



it is, but oh, how real it is, the study of the j^e work already done will be dissipated in 



ages tells. And yet behold how the good f^e twinkling of an eye.— W. D. 



causes fail. Behold how selfishness comes 



in to paralyze each great endeavor for the 



good of man. Alas for him who sees only 



this surface fact; who does not feel beneath 



it all the heave and movement of the whole 



race forward toward goodness. . . . The 



best is strongest and shall ultimately con- 

 quer." — Sermon by Bishop Brooks. 



The above seems also prophetic of the 



conditions that now obtain in the bird world 



as well as in the realm of humanity. The 



stories which follow of the results obtained 



during the past few months show that there 



is a steady, although slow improvement in 



legislative conditions; although, on the other 



hand, how true it is that the selfishness of 



California.— The most important gain in 

 California in the way of legislation in the 

 interest of wild birds and game protection 

 at the session of 1907 is a hunting license 

 law fixing an annual fee of $1 for hunters 

 who are citizens of the state, $10 for citizens 

 of the United States who are non-residents 

 of the state and $25 for aliens. 



There are one or two defects in this law 

 that will no doubt be remedied two years 

 hence, but there was quite a pronounced 

 prejudice in many parts of the state against 

 a hunting license law of any sort, and it 

 was only by the hardest possible work on 

 the part of the friends of game preservation 



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