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or Territory in which specimens are 

 proposed to be taken, and the purpose 

 for which they are intended. Each 

 application for a permit must be ac- 

 companied by certificates from two 

 well known ornithologists that the ap- 

 licant is a fit person to be entrusted 

 with a permit. 



2. Permits will be valid only dur- 

 ing the calendar year in which issued, 

 are not transferable, and are revocable 

 in the discretion of the Secretary of 

 Agriculture. 



3. Every permittee must report to 

 the Secretary of Agriculture on or be- 

 fore January 10 following the expira- 

 tion of his permit, the number of 

 skins, nests, or eggs of each species 

 collected, bought, sold, or transported. 



4. Every package in which migra- 

 tory birds or their nests or eggs are 

 transported must be marked clearly 

 and conspicuously on the outside 

 thereof with the name and address of 

 the sender, the number of permit, the 

 name and address of the consignee, 

 and a statement that it contains speci- 

 mens of birds, their nests, or eggs for 

 scientific purposes. Any package 

 transported or offered for transporta- 

 tion from Canada into the United 

 States or from the United States into 

 Canada, must also bear an accurate 

 statement of the contents. 



5. Every permittee must carry his 

 permit on his person when he is col- 

 lecting specimens thereunder, and 

 must exhibit the permit to any person 

 requesting to see the same. 



6. A permit will authorize the 

 holder to possess, buy, sell, and trans- 

 port, in any manner and at any time, 

 migratory birds and their nests and 

 eggs for scientific purposes under the 

 conditions above stated. 



Public museums, zoological parks 

 and socieies, and public scientific and 

 educational institutions may possess, 

 buy, sell, and transport migratory 



birds and their nests and eggs for 

 scientific purposes without a permit, 

 but they cannot kill or collect them 

 without a permit. 



Section 4 of the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act applies to all birds, 

 whether migratory or not. This sec- 

 tion prohibits the shipment, transpor- 

 tation, or carriage, by any means 

 whatever, from one State, Territory, 

 or District to or through another 

 State, Territory, or District, or to or 

 through a foreign county, of any bird 

 or the nest or egg thereof, captured, 

 killed, or taken, or from which it was 

 shipped, transported, or carried. This 

 section also prohibits the importation 

 of any bird or the nest or egg thereof, 

 captured, killed, taken, shipped, trans- 

 ported, or carried contrary to the laws 

 of any province of Canada in which 

 the same was captured, killed, or 

 taken, or from which it was shipped, 

 transported, or carried. 



Section 6 of the Migratory Bird 

 Treaty Act makes the violation of the 

 Act a misdemeanor punishable by a 

 fine of not more than $500, or by im- 

 prisonment not more than six months, 

 or both. 



Very truly yours, 



Robert W. Williams. 



Technical Names 



The value of much of the present 

 day ornithology literature is very 

 much lessened in the hands of many 

 people by the disposition of certain 

 class ornithologists to always hide 

 what they have to write under some 

 Latin or alleged scientific name which 

 is unintelligible to about 90% of these 

 who read or see the article. That 

 this fact is at least being noticed is 

 evidenced by a reference to page 497 

 of the October Auk, wherein the edi- 

 tor of that journal takes Dr. Oberhol- 

 ser to task because in his "Second 

 Bird Survey at Washington, D. C, pub- 



