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Apr. 18.— In South Dakota, in the case of A. M. Shaw, Judge J. D. Elliott 

 of the Federal Court, decided that the national migratory bird law 

 is constitutional. 



Apr. 24. — The Rhode Island bird protectionists, headed by Dr. Horace 

 P. Beck, won their fight against the use of motor boats in hunting 

 waterfowl. Rhode Island also enacted a law making the bird laws 

 of that state conform to the regulations of the national migratory 

 bird law. 



May 7. — The United States Senate, by a vote of 45 to 17, restored the 

 House appropriation of $50,000 for the enforcement of the federal 

 migratory bird law. Thus ended a campaign that never should have 

 been rendered necessary ! 



May 27. — In the United States District Court at Jonesboro, Arkansas, in 

 the case of Harvey C. Schauver for a violation of the national mi- 

 gratory law, Judge Jacob Trieber decided that the law is unconsti- 

 tutional. An appeal was taken by the United States, and the case 

 is now on is way to the United States Supreme Court. There is a 

 possibility that it may be reached in 1915. 



May 30. — The Canadian government decided to make a serious and far- 

 reaching effort to preserve the prong-horned antelope from complete 

 extinction in Canada. Preliminary steps were taken to establish one 

 large fenced range in Alberta, another in Saskatchewan, and a third 

 in Manitoba. Messrs. Maxwell Graham and Earnest T. Seton were 

 called upon to assist in selecting suitable sites for the three pre- 

 serves, which were located on lands not desirable for agriculture. 

 Two of the areas chosen are in localities already inhabited by ante- 

 lope, and to the third one it is proposed to drive antelopes with the 

 aid of mounted police. 



Unfortunately the outbreak of the European war has postponed 

 the practical consummation of this admirable plan. 



June 3 & 4. — Meeting in Washington of the Advisory Board to the De- 

 partment of Agriculture on the Migratory Bird Law. A number 

 of recommendations were adopted and transmitted to the Secretary 

 of Agriculture. 



June 12. — The long campaign of the Camp-Fire Club of America, begun 

 in 1912, for the enlargement of Waterton Lakes Park in south- 

 western Alberta, terminated in success. This movement, proposed by 

 Frederick K. Vreeland, was for the purpose of saving a good moun- 

 tain sheep country from being desolated by sportsmen and ranchmen. 

 Waterton Lakes Park, with its southern base on the international 

 boundary at Glacier Park, originally contained 50 square miles, which 

 later was reduced to 13% square miles. Now the Park as enlarged 

 northward contains 436 square miles, and embraces practically all 

 the mountain sheep country in Alberta, south of Crow's Nest Pass. 



June 13. — The Rockefeller Foundation purchased 85,000 acres of swamp 

 lands bordering the Gulf of Mexico, known as the Grand Chenier, 

 west of New Iberia, as a bird preserve; and later on it was turned 

 over to the State of Louisiana. 



Aug. 3. — At the outbreak of the European war, the "Hobhouse bill," 

 introduced in the British Parliament by Postmaster General Hob- 

 house, for the prohibition of the importation and sale in England of 

 wild birds' plumage, was on the point of being passed. For twelve 

 months a great struggle had been made by the Royal Society for 

 the Protection of Birds (Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Lemon and Miss 



