596 HOW DOES MAN CONSERVE HIS RESOURCES? 



other animals. Thanks to the treaty of 1916 with Great Britain, 

 more than 500 kinds of migrating birds are protected in this 

 country and Canada from capture, killing, or sale. All over this 

 country, owing to the work of the Audubon Society, of Dr. Horna- 

 day, and of other leaders, we have awakened to the fact that our 

 birds are valuable assets and we have enacted laws prohibiting 

 the killing of game birds during the breeding season, and of most 

 wild birds at any time. 



State and government methods of protection. In 1909 the 

 Federal Government framed a law known as the Lacey amendment, 



U. S. Bureau of Biol. Surrey 

 What is your state doing for the protection of birds ? 



which prohibits shipping of birds from a state where it is illegal 

 to kill them. In the tariff act of 1913 a law went into effect, which 

 protects migratory game birds as well as insect-eating birds, such 

 as robins, orioles, and swallows. Later, the law was amended to 

 forbid the importation for commercial purposes of egret plumes 

 (taken from breeding egrets), or any wild bird skins. 



Many states now have protective laws for the birds. New 

 York State has a law which forbids the sale of all game birds, no 

 matter where they were taken. 



