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whether such a bill would be consti- 

 tutional. 



On March 2, the National Association 

 received a check from $284.50 from the 

 legacy of Ephraim B. Repp, deceased. 



Mr. Repp was a carpenter, and had 

 lived in Washington, D. C, for the past 

 thirty-five years. He had always been 

 greatly interested in bird protection, and 

 encouraged many people to become 

 members of the Audubon Society. That 

 he desired to see the good work carried 

 forward is shown by his making provision 

 that a portion of his estate should go toward 

 the support of the Audubon movement. 



The first arrest for violation of the new 

 Audubon Law in New Jersey, which pro- 

 hibits the sale of aigrettes, was made on 

 March i, when Game Warden H. M. Love- 

 less arrested Isaac Goldberg, head of the 

 firm which operates the Goldberg de- 

 partment store in Trenton, and the same 

 day he arrested a woman who operates 

 a millinery store in Trenton. 



Both defendants were charged with 

 selling and offering for sale Heron ai- 

 grettes. The woman pleaded guilty on six 

 counts, and paid a fine of $160. Goldberg 

 paid a fine of $300, under protest, and 

 the case will be carried to the higher courts. 



This should be a warning to other mil- 

 liners in New Jersey, for Mr. Ernest Napier, 

 the State Game Commissioner, does not 

 intend to permit this law to be violated 

 with impunity. 



Five additional National Bird Reser- 

 vations have recently been created by 

 executive order. Mr. Frank Bond, of 

 Washington, one of the members of our 

 Advisory Board, who prepared and sub- 

 mitted the necessary papers for President 

 Taft's signature, reports that these new 

 reservations will add much to the territory 

 already set aside by the Government for 

 the protection, at all times, of wild birds, 

 their nests, and eggs. 



Three of these were created on January 

 II. Two of them, Forrester Island and 

 Harvey Islands Reservations, are situated 



on the coast of Alaska; the third, Niobrarai 

 Reservation, containing about twenty- 

 three square miles of land, is located in- 

 Northern Nebraska. On February 21, 

 Green Bay Reservation, regularly known as- 

 Hogg Island and situated in Lake Michigan: 

 off the coast of Wisconsin, was established. 



During the heavy fall of snow in Jan- 

 uary, the Robins came in great numbers- 

 to the town of Pittsboro, N. C., and fed 

 on the berries of the cedar trees. 



In order that the birds might be killed 

 without restriction, the Board of Aldermen 

 suspended the Ordinance against the firing: 

 of guns in the town, and permitted the 

 inhabitants to kill the Robins. 



Hon. Bennet Nooe, the Mayor, not 

 approving of this action, resigned. In at 

 letter to us he says: 



"I was out of town for a few days, during 

 which we had some unusually bad, snowy 

 weather, and the birds, not being able to- 

 get food on the ground, had to go to the 

 cedar and other berry trees for food and, 

 as it happened, there were a lot of trees, 

 in the town which they fed from. About 

 all of the male population promptly got 

 guns and went for them. 



"Hearing of this, on my return, I went 

 to the Aldermen, all of whom were guilty, 

 and told them that they and all others who 

 were guilty would have to be fined; three 

 out of five submitted and paid up, but they 

 insisted that the ordinance be changed to 

 read exactly as it is written here, with the 

 exception that all could shoot Robins in 

 the town until the first of March; where- 

 upon I resigned, as was stated. 



"It is estimated that about four thou- 

 sand Robins were killed during the few 

 days that the birds were here. This of 

 course, does not include the county, but 

 just in and around the town." 



In the report of a trip to the coast of 

 Virginia by Mr. H. H. Cleaves, published 

 in the November-December Bird-Lore, 

 the dates given should have been June in- 

 stead of July. The pictures which accom- 

 panied the article were taken on Wrack 

 Island. 



