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Any other construction of this law 

 would tend to hinder scientific col- 

 lecting and would result ultimately in 

 much surreptitious violation of the 

 law, and would extend it beyond the 

 intent and import of the law at the 

 time of its passage. 



One of the grave dangers that the 

 laws relating to conservation gener- 

 ally will meet is an effort on the part 

 of those charged with the enforce- 

 ment of such laws to arbitrarily and 

 and unnecessarily extend the operation 

 of said laws beyond their reasonable 

 interpretation and thereby align 

 against such laws any person v^ho 

 will be thus effected, and likewise to 

 bring the laws and the reasonable en- 

 forcement of the same into ridicule 

 and disrepute. Officers charged with 

 the enforcement of these laws will do 

 well to realize that a person who is 

 of the class entitling him to a certif 

 icate to collect under such laws is a 

 person to be trusted with the proper 

 disposition of his specimens. 



R. M. Barnes. 



Some Rare Things. 



We have recently received from a 

 collector located on the Northwest 

 Arctic coast of Alaska a number of 

 sets of eggs which are unusual in any 

 collection, and have thought proper 

 to record some of the facts with rela- 

 tion thereto, viz.: 



These eggs were taken on or near 

 the Arctic coast about three hundred 

 miles Northeast of Bering Strait, and 

 the nesting dates of the specimens 

 taken as shown by the data accom- 

 panying them is as follows, viz.: 



June 6, Yellow-billed Loon, Red- 

 throated Loon, Long-tailed Jaegar, 

 Point Barrow Gull, Pacific Eider, 

 Black Brant, all being fresh except 

 Long-tailed Jaegar, the eggs of which 

 were long- advanced in incubation. 



June 10, Alaskan Longspur, fresh. 



June 12, Point Barrow Gull, Pacific 

 Eider, Pectoral Sandpiper, Bairdi 

 Sandpiper, Pacific Red-backed Sand- 

 piper, Turnstone, all of which were 

 fresh except the Pectoral and Red- 

 backed Sandpiper, in which incuba- 

 tion had begun, and the Least Sand- 

 piper in which incubation was ad- 

 vanced. 



June 13th, Turnstone. 



June 14, Red Phalarope and Pacif- 

 ic Red-backed Sandpiper, both of 

 which were fresh. 



June 15, Alaskan Longspur, fresh. 



June 16th, Turnstone, incubation 

 slight. 



June 18th, Red-throated Loon, fresh. 



June 20th, Pacific Eider, fresh. 



June 22, Pintail Duck, Pacific Eider, 

 Black Brant, Little Brown Crane, 

 Northern Phalarope, Buff-breasted 

 Sandpiper, all of which were fresh 

 except that incubation was slight in 

 the Pacific Eider and Buff-breasted, 

 Sandpiper, and far advanced in the 

 Northern Phalarope. 



June 23, Pacific Loon, Black Brant, 

 Pacific- Golden Plover, all fresh ex- 

 cept the latter, in which incubation 

 was slight. 



June 24th, Pacific Eider, incubation 

 slight. 



June 26th, Old Squaw, King Eider, 

 Snowflake, the former fresh, the lat- 

 ter incubation slight. 



July 3, Pallas' Murre and Stone 

 Chat, the later fresh; the former in- 

 cubation far advanced. 



July 5, Pallas' Murre, incubation 

 slight. Stone Chat, fresh. 



July 7 , Horned Puffin, one fresh. 

 Many sets found badly incubated, 



July 5-15, Many sets Pallas' Murre 

 taken between these dates all of 

 which were either fresh or the incu- 

 bation very slight. 



NESTING LOCATIONS. 



The nesting locations of these vari- 

 ous birds in this far away Northland 



