396 Bird - Lore 



In Connecticut, three cat license bills were introduced. None of them 

 passed. A bill passed providing a closed season on Golden and Black-bellied 

 Plover, Greater and Lesser Yellow-Legs, and Wilson's Snipe, from Decem- 

 ber 31 to August 31, inclusive. Other small shore-birds are protected, and 

 for those that may be shot a bag limit of ten was established. 



A cat license bill was also introduced in the Legislature of New Hamp- 

 . hire, but did not become a law. 



In the New Jersey Legislature, a bill providing for a bounty on Hawks and 

 Crows was again introduced. The New Jersey Audubon Society opposed 

 this, and the bill died. 



By far the most important pending legislation of the year has been the 

 Enabling Act in Congress. This is a bill to provide authority for enforcing 

 the Migratory Bird Treaty between the United States and Canada. 



Early in the year the bill was reported in the Senate by the Senate Com- 

 mittee having the matter in charge. During the months of January and 

 February the Secretary spent most of the time in Washington, directing a 

 lobby in the interest of this matter. Special workers were brought, at the 

 expense of the Association, from Kansas and Alabama, and much publicity 

 was given to the entire subject. The members of the Association, as well as 

 the officers and members of affiliated societies and clubs throughout the 

 country, were appealed to and responded nobly by bringing to the atten- 

 tion of their Senators the expression of local sentiment. The Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society was especially helpful and was very liberal in its contribu- 

 tions. The bill would doubtless have passed at that time but for the fact that 

 it was regarded as an administrative bill, and was therefore one of the meas- 

 ures doomed to defeat by the "little group of twelve wilful Senators." 



When the new session of Congress convened in the summer, the bill was 

 reintroduced. It was reported favorably by the Senate Committee that had 

 it in charge, and on July 29 passed the Senate by a large majority. The meas- 

 ure has not yet been brought up for consideration in the House. The second 

 gathering of the present session of Congress will probably take place in Decem- 

 ber. Every effort must be made at that time by the friends of the birds to 

 bring the bill up for a vote and thus end this fight for which conservationists 

 have been working for many years. 



FIELD AGENTS 



During the past year, in addition to our regularly employed field staff, we 

 have financially cooperated with several other forceful workers who have 

 represented the Audubon cause in their respective fields of endeavor. 



Ten of these are mentioned under the head of 'Summer Schools.' Others 

 are: Mrs. Granville R. Pike, of Washington, who lectured in the schools of 

 her home state for three months, where she organized large numbers of Junior 



