The Audubon Societies 
time in Richmond county prior to the year 
nineteen hundred and fourteen. 
Section two hundred and forty of said 
act is hereby amended by adding a new 
subdivision to said section, to be known 
as subdivision eighteen thereof, and to read 
as follows: 
18. Plumage includes any part of the 
feathers, head, wings or tail of any bird, 
and wherever the word occurs in this 
chapter reference is had equally to plum- 
age of birds coming from without the 
state as to that obtained within the state, 
but it shall not be construed to apply to the 
feathers of birds of paradise, ostriches, 
domestic fowl or domestic pigeons. 
This act shall take effect July 1, r9rr.”’ 
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A Bird Park Established 
Mrs. Mary Emery, of Cincinnati, has 
recently purchased, at an estimated cost 
of $250,000, a tract containing about two 
acres of land located near the grounds 
of the University of Cincinnati, which is 
to be made a “Bird Park,” surrounded 
by a cat-proof fence. 
It has been given to the city, and its 
improvements and care will be directed 
by the Department of Biology of the Uni- 
versity, the head of which, Prof. H. W. 
Benedict, is credited with having interested 
Mrs. Emery in this public-spirited idea.— 
Tr. GP. ; 
Heron Colonies Raided 
Word has just reached this office that a 
colony of Snowy Herons in eastern North 
Carolina has been ‘shot out.’ It is re- 
ported that the men who did the killing 
realized something over $70 for the plumes 
gathered that day from the backs of 
the birds which were killed. Our infor- 
mation is that the feathers were shipped to 
a northern market, and, as this is a viola- 
tion of the Federal statute, known as the 
Lacey Act, the case has been placed in 
the hands of the United States Attorney 
for the eastern district of North Carolina. 
Warden W. M. Sprinkle, who patrols 
certain of the bird colonies on the Louisi- 
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ana coast, reports that, when he visited 
Dutcher’s island on May 3, he found that 
it had been plundered by eggers. The two 
thousand Louisiana Heron nests had been 
rifled of their eggs and a number of the 
birds shot. 
These cases emphasize the tremendous 
importance of having the income of this 
Association greatly enlarged at once, if 
many of our birds are to be saved. The 
Snowy Heron is one of the very rarest 
plume birds in the United States today. 
We know of two unprotected colonies, 
each of which could be guarded at a cost 
of $100 annually, but our present resources 
are already strained to the limit, and the 
additional expense cannot now be under- 
taken. Is there not some reader of BirD- 
Lore who is willing to contribute the 
necessary amount to save one of the few 
remaining breeding haunts of this aigrette- 
bearing Heron?—T. G. P. 
Some Audubon Field Workers 
On January 28 there was organized in 
the energetic city of Edmonton, Alberta, 
a Provincial Audubon Society, which gives 
promise of doing much splendid work for 
bird and game protection in that section 
of the Dominion of Canada. The officers 
elected are president, Glenn B. Chadwick, 
1240 Victoria avenue, and Sidney S. S. 
Stansell, to25 Sixth street. We shall 
expect to hear good reports of their 
activities. 
Miss Gretchen L. Libby of Riverside, 
California, who has been lecturing for the 
Association and the Audubon Society of 
California for a number of months past, 
has been doing some very aggressive 
work. During the months of February and 
March she visited forty-one schools in 
eleven cities and towns and gave one hun- 
dred and twelve talks. In this way she was 
able to reach about six thousand children 
and over four hundred adults. As a result 
of the work in the schools, twenty-two 
Junior Audubon Societies were organized 
with a total membership of over one thou- 
sand, and, as a number of schools have 
