248 AN INTRODUCTION TO THE BIRD WORLD 
3. Loyally and vigorously support the National Govern- 
ment and your own state authorities in enforcing most 
vigorously all the terms of the new federal law for the protec- 
tion of our six hundred and ten species of migratory birds. 
4. Insist upon it that your state shall afford full and ade- 
quate protection to all your grouse, quail, wild turkeys (if 
any) and all other birds that are not migratory. 
5. Help to close all the markets of your state against the 
sale of all native wild game save that reared in captivity, and 
officially tagged for sale by your state authorities. 
Tue VASTNESS OF THE Birp WorLp.—Go where you will 
upon this earth—save in the great deserts—some members 
of the bird world will either bear you company, or greet you 
as you advance. Some will sing to cheer you, others will 
interest and amuse you by the oddities of their forms and 
ways. On the mountain backbone of the continent, you 
will meet the spruce grouse, the raven and the mountain 
jay. In the foot-hills and on the great sage-brush plains, the 
stately sage grouse and the garrulous magpie still break the 
monotony. 
In the fertile regions of abundant rain, bird life is—or 
rather was once—bewildering in its variety. In the tropics, 
the gorgeous colors and harsh voices of the birds remind you 
that you are fairly within another world. In mid-ocean, the 
stormy petrel causes you to wonder how it survives the storms. 
On the bald mountains of Alaska, or the barren shores of the 
Arctic Ocean, the snow-white ptarmigan may be the means of 
saving you from death by starvation; and when you discover 
new lands in the mysterious and forbidding waters of the 
