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a shore patrol, but I believe we will be able 
to prevent hunting, by energetic work. 
I feel it would never do to let our good 
work of the summer be annulled by with- 
drawing our patrol in the winter. It 
will be very hard, disagreeable work in the 
winter on account of the outdoor work in 
stormy weather. 
“T have succeeded in making ten arrests 
and securing nine convictions under state 
laws; the tenth case is still pending and 
I hope to secure a conviction in this. In 
doing this, I believe I have not forfeited 
the sympathy of the people in general 
to the enforcement of the game laws, as I 
have been fortunate in prosecuting de- 
serving cases. I am preparing to do some 
effective winter work, and have spent 
considerable money in a winter equip- 
ment.” 
A New LrasEe.—The National Associa- 
tion has just secured a lease from the 
Governor and Council of the state of 
Maine, through Mr. Edgar E. Ring, Land 
Agent and Forest Commissioner of ‘The 
Brothers” and “Pulpit Rock” islands at 
the mouth of Englishman’s Bay. Both 
of these islands are breeding-places for 
large numbers of Herring Gulls. The state 
of Maine generously gives the lease, with- 
out any rent consideration, provided the 
Association will use the islands only as a 
bird refuge and will keep them properly 
policed. 
259,000 Pairs of Wings Seized! 
The value of Bird Reservations, and the 
continued wholesale slaughter of birds for 
millinery purposes, are both emphasized 
by news just cabled from Honolulu that 
Capt. W. E. Jaboks, of the revenue cutter, 
‘Thetis,’ has arrested twenty-three Japan- 
ese on the Hawaiian Island Reservation 
where they had already collected 259,000 
pairs of birds’ wings. 
It should be noted that this is one of the 
Reservations secured in part, through the 
efforts of the National Association, having 
been set aside by Ex-President Roosevelt 
on February 3, 1909. 
Bird-Boxes 
The National Association has and still 
recommends the use of the yon Ber- 
lepsch bird-boxes and feeding-houses. It 
is necessary, however, to call the attention 
of prospective buyers to the fact that 
to the prices quoted in the von Berlepsch 
book must be added about 125 per cent 
for duty, freight, custom-house and inci- 
dental expenses. 
In this connection, the National Asso- 
ciation desires to call the attention of the 
readers of BirD-LoRE and Audubon 
members in all parts of the country, to 
some excellent American-made bird-boxes. 
Through the enterprise of Mr. J. Warren 
Jacobs, of Waynesburg, Pa., various types 
of nesting-boxes, from simple designs, 
suitable for the use of Bluebirds, Wrens 
and other hole-nesting birds, to more elabo- 
rate structures, suitable for Martins, can 
now be readily obtained in this country. 
We hope that Mr. Jacobs’ business ven- 
ture will receive sufficient support from 
those interested in attracting birds about 
their homes to warrant his continuing 
his industry, and also to devise some 
machinery that will enable him to make 
an artificial nesting-hole for Woodpeckers. 
The Trade in Plume Birds 
The address delivered by Mr. James 
Buckland before the Royal Society of Arts 
in London on December 8, 1909, contains 
some startling figures in relation to the 
plume trade. Quoting from the ‘Consular 
Reports on the Trade and Commerce of 
Venezuela,’ Mr. Buckland shows that 
in 1898 at least 1,538,738 White Egrets 
were killed for their plumes while in 1908 
the number had fallen to 257,916. Mr. 
Buckland remarks: “These particular fig- 
ures cannot be considered too gravely. 
They furnish complete evidence, not only 
of the rapid diminution of the species in 
Venezuela, but also complete evidence— 
unless effective protection comes in time 
to save the bird—that what has happened 
in North America and in China is going 
to happen in South America; and, for 
