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of the wardens' watchfulness are: White and Brown PeHcans; Herring, West- 

 ern and Laughing Gulls; Common, Arctic, Caspian, Royal, Cabot's and Least 

 Terns; Puffins; Comorants; Guillemots; Egrets and other Herons; Grebes; 

 Gallinules; Rails; Geese, and various forms of Ducks. 



It is impossible to make anything like an accurate estimate of the number 

 of many of these species, but it is probably conservative to say that from one 

 to two million birds inhabited the protected areas during the past year. 



EGRET PROTECTION 



Members and other friends of the Association, to the number of 950, 

 united the past year and contributed $6,427.54 for the further protection of 



SNOWY EGRETS, ORANGE LAKE, FLORIDA, ROOKERY 

 Photographed by Dr. H. R. Mills 



the pitiful remnant of the great flocks of White Egrets once found in this 

 country. The names of these contributors have been published from time to 

 time in Bird-Lore. With this sum we have not only conducted an extensive 

 campaign of publicity on the horrors of the aigrette trade, but four agents were 

 sent into the southern swamps during the spring and summer to locate such 

 colonies of nesting birds as were yet to be found. Twenty-six breeding rook- 



