an organization as ours should have an active member- 

 ship of at least ten thousand. It should be generously 

 endowed. 



We invite investigation of this subject on the part 

 of the readers of the Oriole. We shall be glad to 

 send our Annual Report, Bulletins and other matter 

 to anyone requesting same. Every dollar member- 

 ship helps the cause by so much. 



We feel confident that the time will come when 

 some wealthy and philanthropic individual will put an 

 endowment fund at the disposal of the Society, the in- 

 come from which will make possible the realization of 

 achievements far in advance of those which we have 

 yet attained. We only hope that such a happy con- 

 summation ma^^ come in time to save some of our 

 vanishing species and to contribute to the happiness 

 and welfare of the present generation. 



EDITORIAL. 



Bird- protectionists are not such severe and prohib- 

 iting characters as they may seem to their adversaries. 

 We wish to allow all the privileges we can to the 

 Sportsmen, the Milliners, the Oologists and those who 

 kill birds in the name of science. We are not against 

 their business; we are not against their conducting 

 that business. Onl}^ — birds and their preservation 

 come first to us. 



All we wish to succeed in is the modification of such 

 business to a basis where it does not become an actual 

 total destructive bird force; i. e., where the destruction 

 so caused is not more than the increase beyond a fair 



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