CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS IN 



WILD LIFE PROTECTION AND 



EXTERMINATION* 



From January 1, 1915, to January 1, 1917. 



1915 



Jan. 1. — The Canadian Government rendered all importations of 

 wild birds' plumage illegal, except the feathers of the ostrich, 

 pheasant, and peacock; of birds used for food, and of specimens 

 for scientific purposes. This was effected by the insertion of 

 the following clause in Schedule C of the Customs Tariff: 



"Aigrettes, egret plumes, or so-called osprey plumes, 

 and the feathers, quills, wings, tails and skins or parts of 

 skins of wild birds, either raw or manufactured." 



Thus Canada complemented the action of the United 

 States, and thus was closed all of North America above Mexico 

 to all further importations of wild birds' plumage for the 

 feather trade. 



Various dates, 1915. — During the year 1915, various orders prohibit- 

 ing the exportation of plumage, either of all wild birds or sched- 

 uled species, were issued in the following colonies: Mauritius, 

 Sychelles, Straits Settlements, Bermudas, Virgin Island, Do- 

 minica, St. Helena, Soloman Islands, the Gilbert and Ellice 

 Island protectorates, Barbadoes and the Gold Coast, West 

 Africa. Similar enactments were previously in force in Aus- 

 tralia, New Zealand and India. 



Jan. 6. — The importation of quail from Mexico into the United 

 States was prohibited by order of the Secretary of Agriculture, 

 on account of a reappearance in Mexico of the "quail 

 disease." 



Jan. 8. — Prof. C. F. Holder and his Wild Life Protective League (of 

 Pasadena, Calif.) won a notable victory over the Italian and 

 Japanese fishermen, and the 13 tuna canning industries of 

 Santa Catalina. The fight was made to save the tuna of Santa 

 Catalina — the most famous big-game fishing grounds in the 

 world, — from extermination, by stopping netting operations. 

 The California State Fish Commission sided with the commer- 

 cial fishermen, but Prof. Holder and his friends succeeded in 

 passing their bill stopping the netting of tuna in Santa Catalina 

 Bay, even for use as bait. 



*In the preparation of this Chronology the Campaigning Trustee gratefully acknowl- 

 edges the receipt of valuable cooperation from Dr. Theodore S. Palmer of the U. S. Biologi- 

 cal Survey, and Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, Secretary of the Canadian Interdepartmental 

 Advisory Board on Wild Life Protection. 



