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own estates. This has already been done in 

 many places. One of the most successful is 

 that of Mr. Frederick C. Walcott, at Norfolk, 

 Connecticut. Here is a four thousand-acre tract 

 of typical New England country, with four ponds 

 — two natural and two artificial ones — dedicated 

 to the cause of bird protection only three years 

 ago at this writing and now literally alive with 

 birds at certain seasons. Not only the land 

 birds but the waterfowl also have found it a 

 haven of refuge. To use a bit of Mr. Walcott's 

 own description : — " Between two and three thou- 

 sand black ducks drop into the home pond each 

 fall and remain until late December before go- 

 ing farther south ; and each fall and spring, from 

 forty to fifty wild Canada geese stay with our 

 geese several days, for food." A further de- 

 scription of this and other more or less similar 

 sanctuaries may be found in Mr. Walcott's 

 chapter on "Private Game Preserves" in Dr. 

 William T. Hornaday's book, Wild Life Con- 

 servation in Theory and Practice. 



The following letter from John B. Burnham, 

 President of the American Game Protective and 

 Propagation Association, is very valuable as 

 showing how a state legislature has set an ex- 

 ample in making easy the establishment of bird 

 sanctuaries. 



