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jects. Among the 2,000 persons receiving this issue were the legislators and the 

 employes of the Division of Game and Fish, Illinois Department of Agriculture. 

 Jesse L. Smith contributed a very able article on "Bird Protection in Illinois," 

 setting forth the Society's wishes in regard to the new game and fish code which 

 was then being framed. As a result of this and activities following it, the 

 Division of Game and Fish asked the Society's secretary to submit in writing 

 provisions the Society desired incorporated. It is gratifying to report that the 

 new code, effective July i, meets most of the Society's wishes, embodying in 

 places the wording as submitted. 



In the new code, the Illinois Audubon Society inserted the words "or attempt 

 to shoot, kill, destroy, or catch," in the provision protecting non-game birds. 

 It provides for the protection of Sparrows and Finches, inadvertently omitted 

 from protection by Federal regulation under the Migratory Bird Treaty with 

 Canada. The Society substituted for the words, "Chicken Hawk" in listing 

 outlaw birds, the specific words, "Cooper's Hawk, Sharp-shinned Hawk, 

 Goshawk, Duck Hawk, Pigeon Hawk;" specified only the Great Horned Owl; 

 and listed, the English Sparrow, Crow, Blackbird, Blue Jay, and Cormorant, 

 as the other non-protected species. We suggested that no hunting license should 

 be issued to any person under eighteen years of age. The law as passed reads 

 " — no person under the age of sixteen years, without the written request of the 

 father or mother or legally constituted guardian of such person." We objected, 

 with others, to giving hunting rights to foreign-born, unnaturalized persons, 

 and advocated favoring citizens of Illinois more than citizens of other states 

 coming to Illinois to hunt. These points are covered in the new code. Also,^we 

 advocated, with others probably, the provision giving the same fees and mileage 

 to sheriffs, deputy sheriffs, constables, stnd other police officers making arrests 

 and serving warrants under the code, as the old law gave to Constables only, 

 and also giving one-half the fines imposed and collected in cases where said 

 officers have filed complaints. These are provided. 



In this issue of The Audubon Bulletin, the Society took sharp issue with the 

 DuPont "National Crow Shoot" campaign. It was gratifying to note that T. 

 Gilbert Pearson, in Bird-Lore, May- June, 1919, opposed the campaign with 

 even greater force. Robert Ridgway, dean of American ornithologists, made a 

 strong plea for game and forest preserves in southern Illinois; H. C. Norcross, 

 editor of The Illinois Sportsman, forcefully advocated game preserves; and Mrs. 

 Rebecca H. Kauffman again urged that the white pine forest of Ogle County 

 be made a preserve. In a strong editorial, Jesse L. Smith sharply criticized 

 departments of our state government concerned with conservation of natural 

 resources and made constructive suggestions. 



The Illinois Audubon Society beHeves that a most effective means of creat- 

 ing public sentiment in favor of bird-conservation — and sentiment is more 

 powerful than the law — is afforded in the Junior Audubon Classes of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies, It therefore is glad to report 



