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Island, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, 

 Oregon, New Jersey, and the District of 

 •Columbia.— T. G. P. 



A Result of Stopping Spring Shooting 



The New York Legislature, in 1910, 

 ■enacted a law prohibiting the killing of 

 Brant in spring, after January 10, thus 

 making the Brant season conform with 

 the statutory period allowed for killing 

 •other wild fowl in the waters about 

 Long Island. 



Before that time, these birds could be 



aging Black Ducks to remain and nest in 

 the region. We have the authority of 

 Dr. Frank Overton, of Patchogue, New 

 York, for the statement that, the past 

 summer, over 300 of these birds nested on 

 the meadows in the vicinity of Moriches 

 alone. The photograph shows about three 

 hundred resident Black Ducks, and Dr. 

 Overton states that fully as many more 

 were in this one flock, which the camera 

 failed to record. What more concrete 

 evidence does any one need to demonstrate 

 the value of prohibiting the spring shoot- 

 ing of water-fowl? — T. G. P. 



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BLACK DUCKS, MORICHES, LONG ISLAND. RESULT OF 



STOPPING SPRING SHOOTING 



Photographed September 8, 1911 



shot until April 30. Complaints were 

 general that many gunners, under the 

 pretense of shooting Brant, killed other 

 water-fowl many weeks after the time 

 allowed them by law. Hence this new 

 restriction was designed not only to con- 

 serve Brant, but to throw an additional 

 safeguard about those Ducks and Geese 

 which pass here in great numbers while 

 in flight to their northern breeding- 

 grounds. 



Stopping spring shooting on Long 

 Island has not only tended to protect 

 transient species, but it is also encour- 



A Correction 



The National Association of Audubon 

 Societies recently issued a circular regard- 

 ing the collecting of aigrettes for com- 

 mercial uses, in which it was stated, on 

 information from an officer of the Depart- 

 ment of Paleontology of the Paris Natural 

 History Museum, that M. Mayol Grisol 

 was not known to that institution. 



We desire to record that the President 

 of New York State Audubon Society has 

 since been advised by the Director of 

 the Museum Naturelle Francais, Paris, 



