EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City 



William Dutcher, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 

 F. A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan D wight, Jr., Treasurer 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may bf 

 come a member, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of 

 Wild Birds and Animals: 



$5.00 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100.00 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000.00 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Massachusetts Legislation 



After one of the most strenuous cam- 

 paigns ever waged in Massachusetts for 

 game protection, a law has just been 

 enacted which prohibits the sale of native 

 wild game in that state. Provision is also 

 made for encouraging the propagation of 

 game by permitting the sale of certain 

 species if reared in captivity. Foreign 

 game of certain forms not likely to be 

 confused with native species is also 

 permitted to be sold. Abuses of these 

 privileges are guarded against by a system 

 of tagging, which appears to be working 

 so well in New York at the present time. 

 A bag-limit bill was also passed, which 

 regulates the amount of game that a man 

 may take in any one day. 



These features were most furiously 

 Opposed, especially by the market gunners 

 of Massachusetts and certain of the dealers 

 who have been profiting by selling game 

 in the past. Opposed to these men who 

 are working for self interest were the va- 

 rious State and National organizations 

 which are interested in the preservation 

 of wild life in Massachusetts. 



Mr. E. H. Forbush, the New England 

 Field Agent of this Association, conducted 

 a campaign of publicity with an amount 

 of labor which can hardly be realized by 

 one never engaged in such an enterprise. 



The Association was also ably repre- 

 sented by a Boston attorney employed 



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for the purpose. Not only were we engaged 

 in helping to secure this constructive legis- 

 lation, but we were forced to put forth 

 heroic efforts to prevent the repeal of the 

 anti-spring-shooting law. Five bills were 

 introduced in quick succession at the 

 instance of the commercial Duck shooters, 

 with the hope of again opening up spring 

 shooting. 



The expenses of the Massachusetts 

 campaign have drawn heavily on the 

 resources of the Association, but we feel 

 amply repaid by the splendid results. 



The time has come in our civilization 

 when, if our wild game birds are to be 

 saved (and they shall be saved), we must 

 stop commercializing them. As long as 

 an open market can be found for Ducks, 

 shore-birds. Grouse and Quail, just so 

 long will there be found hundreds and 

 thousands of men who will make a business 

 of taking advantage of the laxity of the 

 laws by slaughtering these birds for sale. 

 In their utter disregard of the final results, 

 many of these men take every possible 

 advantage of the wild creatures, and often 

 secure them at seasons, and by methods, 

 and at times in direct violation of the 

 statute. When the good day comes on 

 which it shall be illegal to sell native wild 

 game in any market in the United States, 

 we may feel that we are then well on the 

 road to repopulating the depleted covers 

 with a bird population similar to that 

 found here by our fathers. — T. G. P. 

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