CONTENTS 



CHATTER PAGE 



VIII. The Traffic in Feathers ... 140 

 War on the Sea Swallows — What the 

 Ladies Wore — The Story of the Egrets 

 — Amateur Feather Hunters — Mari- 

 bou — Pheasants — Numidie — Goura — 

 Women's Love for Feathers — Ostrich 

 Feathers Are Desirable. 



IX. Bird-protective Laws and Their 

 Enforcement . . . How Laws 



Are Made 167 



Definition of Game — Audubon Laws — 

 Game Law Enforcement — Lacy Law — 

 Federal Migratory Bird Law — History 

 of Game Laws — The Theory of Shiras 

 — Work of the Bird Committee — 

 Government Explanations — World's 

 Only Bird Treaty. 



X. Bird Reservations 190 



First Federal Bird Reservation — Con- 

 gressional Sanction — Florida Reserva- 

 tions — Distant Reservations — Presi- 

 dent Taft a Bird Protectionist — Audu- 

 bon Society Reservations — The Cork- 

 screw Rookery — Wardens Shot by 

 Plume Hunters. 



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