CHAPTER X 



BIRD RESERVATIONS 



THE creation of reservations where wild birds 

 can be protected at all times is a modern 

 idea, brought prominently to public atten- 

 tion by the efforts of the Audubon Society. The 

 first interest that the United States Government 

 manifested in the subject was about thirteen years 

 ago. On May 29, 1901, the legislature of Florida 

 was induced to enact a statute making it a misde- 

 meanour to kill any non-game birds of the State with 

 the exception of the Crow and a few other species re- 

 garded by the lawmakers as being injurious to man's 

 interests. 



First Federal Bird Reservation. — Shortly afterward 

 the Audubon Society friends employed a man to pro- 

 tect from the raids of tourists and feather hunters a 

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