124 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 
is a separate question, and need not be discussed 
here. As to the character of the legislation that 
would be most effective, there are certain demands 
so imperative as to be perfectly obvious, and the laws 
that would satisfy them would be so universally bene- 
ficial, their enactment would be desirable to every 
state and territory, save two or three. They are as 
follows : — 
“1. Prohibit all egg collecting, except under license 
from state game commissioners, and the payment of a 
license fee. 
“2. Provide for the extermination of the English 
sparrow. 
“3. Prohibit the sale of dead game, at all seasons.! 
“4, Prohibit the killing or capture of wild birds, and 
of quadrupeds, other than fur-bearing animals, for com- 
mercial purposes of any kind. [This will stop the 
slaughter of birds for millinery purposes. ] 
“5, Prohibit all spring shooting. 
“6. Prohibit the carrying or using of a gun without 
a license. 
“7, For three years prohibit the killing or capture of 
any birds, except such birds of prey as may be declared 
by the U. 8. Biological Survey to be sufficiently noxious 
to merit destruction. The only exception should be in 
favor of persons desiring to collect for scientific pur- 
poses, zm moderation, and then only when properly 
1This has long been earnestly advocated by Forest and Stream, and 
the proposition is constantly gaining advocates. It is also one of the 
planks in the platform of the League of American Sportsmen. 
