The Association at the same time is doing its utmost 

 to educate the public against the wearing of wild 

 birds' feathers. Educational Leaflet No. 54, describ- 

 ing in detail the horrors of the egret traffic, together 

 with colored pictures of the birds, will be sent free to 

 anyone upon request. 



HINTS FOR BETTER GAME 

 PROTECTION 



By George D. Cross 



To one who is interested in Nature study nothing 

 can be more satisfactory than to see a country well 

 stocked with so-called game birds, and it is a great 

 pity that our country in the past has not done more 

 to protect them. Compared to densely settled parts 

 of Europe, we have one bird where Europe has thou- 

 sands, and these thousands are due principally to the 

 great care which is given to protect them. 



Our section of the country in the past supported 

 large numbers of quail and ruffed grouse, or par- 

 tridge, and was the breeding ground of many migra- 

 tor}' game birds, such as woodcock, snipe and upland 

 plover — in fact, it is very probable that at some time 

 or other, since white men have lived here, most of 

 the birds peculiar to the temperate zone of the eastern 

 United States could be found where we now live. 

 There is no reason why this condition cannot be dupli- 

 cated at the present time. All that is required is in- 

 telligent effort on the part of all land owners and 

 bird lovers. 



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