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summary. It may be well, however, to call attention to the fact that some of 

 our most notable gains have been in the New England states, where the educa- 

 tional campaign has been longer waged than elsewhere. The results in that 

 territory serve to emphasize most strongly the tremendous importance of dis- 

 tributing literature, using the press, and maintaining strong, intelligent field 

 agents. 



EDUCATIONAL EFFORT 



During the year, our regular educational and special leaflets have been issued 

 to the number of 155,000. In addition, there have been published 2,000 annual 

 reports, 10,000 copies of the president's address, 1,000 supplemental leaflets for 

 the booklet "How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds," 30,500 letters and circu- 

 lars in the interests of New York legislation for the session of 1908-9, and 19,000 

 for the legislative season of 1909-10; 1,000 post-cards for the New Jersey legis- 

 lation, and 500 post-cards for the Virginia legislation. Thus making a grand 

 total of 216,000 separate documents issued by the Association. Besides this, 

 the general correspondence of the New York office has been unusually heavy. 

 Syndicate articles have been issued to the public press regularly, as heretofore, 

 and detailed information was furnished to a number of persons engaged in the 

 preparation of magazine articles. It has been possible for the officers and field 

 agents to accept only a small per cent of the invitations which have been received 

 asking for bird lectures. The demand for public talks of this character is growing 

 annually. 



FEDERAL BIRD RESERVATIONS AND WARDENS 



To this Association is largely due the credit of interesting President Roosevelt 

 in estabHshing the fifty-three National Bird Reservations now in existence in this 

 country. Until July i of the present year, this Association had borne the entire 

 expense of employing the warden force which guarded them. Since that date, 

 the salaries of the wardens have in part been paid by the government. The fol- 

 lowing is a complete list of the bird reservations established up to date: 



List of Reservations Made by President Roosevelt, Together with the Dates 

 of the Several Executive Orders 



March 14, 1903 Pelican Island Reservation. Pelican Island in Indian River, 



Florida. 

 October 4, 1904 Breton Island Reservation. Breton Island, Old Harbor and 



Free Mason Islands, Louisiana. 



March 9, 1905 Stump Lake Reservation. Stump Lake in North Dakota. 



October 10, 1905 Siskiwit Islands Reservation. Unsurveyed islands of the Siski- 



vvit group on the south side of Isle Royal in Lake Superior, 



Michigan. 

 October 10, 1905 Huron Islands Reservation. Unsurveyed islands of the Huron 



Islands group. Lake Superior, Michigan. 

 October 10, 1905 Passage Key Reservation. An island near the mouth of Tampa 



Bay, Florida. 



