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refuges; birds can be attracted to a lo- 
cality by feeding in winter and furnishing 
drinking and bathing pools in summer, 
and especially by furnishing artificial nest- 
ing boxes and holes. 
In this connection, it is a pleasure to 
announce that Houghton, Mifflin & Com- 
pany have just published a book written 
by Gilbert H. Trafton on “Methods of 
attracting Birds.’ 
This Association is also the selling 
agent in the United States of the English 
translation of the von Berlepsch book, en- 
titled ‘How to Attract and Protect Wild 
Birds,’ and also has for free distribution 
leaflets on ‘Winter Feeding’ and ‘Putting 
up Bird Boxes.’ 
The readers of Brrp-LORE who desire to 
erect artificial breeding boxes and holes 
for birds should correspond with Mr. J. 
Warren Jacobs, Waynesburg, Pa., and 
Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, Meriden, 
New Hampshire, both of whom are now 
successfully manufacturing artificial 
breeding boxes.—W. D. 
Another Reason for International 
Bird Protection 
Mr. William Alanson Bryan, our 
Hawaiian representative, sends the fol- 
lowing from the ‘Sunday Advertiser,’ Hon- 
olulu, of August 7, 1910: 
“Jars POACHING ON Laysan” 
“The officers of the schooner Concord, 
which arrived late Friday afternoon from 
Laysan Island, stated that a small Japan- 
ese schooner had recently put in at Laysan, 
supposedly for the purpose of poaching 
upon the bird reservation, but there was 
no actual proof that any had been done. 
It was said that the Japanese made no 
pretense of secrecy, and that there was a 
large number of men on the schooner. 
“There are thousands of birds on the 
island, and it is easy for poachers to get 
them if there is no one to guard the island. 
The place is said to be overrun with rab- 
bits. The Japanese vessel is said to have 
left Tokio last January. The officers of the 
-craft told Captain Miller of the Concord 
Bird - Lore 
that another Japanese schooner had been 
lost recently on the Pacific. The Japanese 
had no bird skins or feathers that could be 
seen by the crew of the Concord.” 
Foreign Bird News 
With many thanks, I have the honor to 
acknowledge receipt of your kind letter of 
August 6th, and the volume of your Edu- 
cational Leaflets. I must say that we 
are full of admiration for the great work 
and the noble aims of the Audubon So- 
cleties. We are very glad to receive your 
magazine BrrD-LoRE. 
I shall take great pleasure in sending 
you a communication relative to bird 
protection in my country. We work by 
articles in the journals and periodicals. A 
prominent part is a series of lectures given 
by the President in schools and societies 
in the country. We have some small is- 
lands reserved and protected by a warden. 
T enclose a prospectus. LAURENT MEBRN, 
Lieutenant-Colonel, Foreign Correspond- 
ence Secretary, in the Society ‘‘Svalen.” 
Post address: Store Kongensgade 95-3. 
Copenhagen. 
“SVALEN” 
(The Swallow) 
Society for the Protection of Birds and 
Other Animals in Denmark. 1909 
The Society “Svalen” has now done 
more than eleven years’ work in further- 
ance of the aims which it has set before 
itself; especially, to protect the avi-fauna 
in such a manner that they may be de- 
veloped to the advantage of agricultural 
interests. In the course of time, we have 
succeeded in enlightening a large portion 
of the public as to the paramount im- 
portance of birds in the great economy of 
Nature, and we have done our best to se- 
cure the carrying out of the Game Laws. 
The society participates in the inter- 
national efforts directed against the mas- 
sacre of birds in the South. 
“Svalen” discourages the wearing of any 
feathers except those of the ostrich and 
domestic fowls—discourages illegal bird 
