EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



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

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



William Dutcher, President 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Acting President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 



Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President Jonathan Dwight, Jr., Treasurer 

 Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



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 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



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Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



DEATH TO THE PELICAN! 



During January there began a great 

 outcry against the Brown Pelican at vari- 

 ous points along the Gulf Coast of the 

 United States. Those who have been show- 

 ing the most active interest in starting a 

 war on these big picturesque birds are 

 people financially interested in commercial 

 fisheries. The claim is being put forth 

 that Pelicans are eating up the fish at such 

 a rate that the birds must be destroyed 

 if we are going to have sufficient food to 

 feed our people and win the war against 

 the Kaiser. 



The Evening Independent of St. Peters- 

 burg, Fla., has championed these food 

 conservators of the Tampa Bay country. 

 The articles which appear in its pages 

 tend to show that the Federal and state 

 governments have done a very foolish 

 thing in seeking to protect birds that are 

 so terrifically destructive to fish. Editori- 

 ally this paper says: 



"It is time that the Government was in- 

 formed as to the destruction that is being 

 wrought by Pelicans in southern waters. 

 The Pelicans are protected by a National 

 law and therefore are thriving and increas- 

 ing in number, and it will be only a few 

 years until the people will have to choose 

 between the Pelicans and the fish. The 



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Pelican is no earthly use to anybody and 

 serves no useful purpose. The fish are 

 needed to help supply the deficiency in 

 food. 



"One Pelican will consume 100 to 300 

 small fish in a day. Multiply that by the 

 thousands of Pelicans in this section, and 

 you have some idea what the Pelicans do 

 to destroy fish. It is a tremendous price 

 the Government is paying to satisfy a few 

 sentimentalists who want to save the 

 birds." 



Captain Barney Williams, Deputy Fish 

 Commissioner at St. Petersburg, has 

 advanced a plan which he thinks will take 

 care of the matter locally. His plan is to 

 destroy all the eggs laid by Florida Peli- 

 cans for a period of five years, and then 

 let them have one year in which to bring 

 fqrth their young. 



The Evening Independent announces its 

 hearty approval of this plan. 



At the last two sessions of the legislature 

 of Texas, bills were introduced which had 

 for their purpose the authorization for 

 people to kill Gulls and Pelicans along the 

 coast of that state, because of their 

 alleged destruction to food-fishes. From 

 this source fresh complaints are now com- 

 ing. They claim that fishermen should be 



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