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NATURE NOTES 
Committee gave a garden party on the estate on July 21, which 
was attended by five or six thousand people. We hope to be 
able to give one or more views of the grounds in our next 
number. 
Churchyard-Bottom Wood, Highgate, was formally opened 
by the Duchess of Albany on July 23, its name being altered to 
Queen’s Wood. 
A Law for the Protection of Birds. — A Bill for the Pro- 
tection of Birds was passed on March 24, by the Senate of the 
United States, introduced into the House of Representatives on 
March 25, and referred to the Committee on Agriculture. It is 
entitled “ An Act for the Protection of Song Birds,” and its 
provisions are as follows : — 
“ Section i. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Represen- 
tatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That 
the importation into the United States of birds, feathers, or 
parts of birds for ornamental purposes be, and the same is here- 
by, prohibited : Provided however, That nothing herein contained 
shall be construed as prohibiting the importation of birds for 
museums, zoological gardens, or scientific collections, or the 
importation of living birds or of feathers taken from living birds, 
without injury to the bird. The Secretary of the Treasury is 
hereby authorised to make regulations for carrying into effect 
the provisions of this section. 
“ Section 2. That the transportation of birds, feathers, or 
parts of birds, to be used or sold, from any State or Territory 
of the United States to or through any other State or Territory 
of the United States, is hereby prohibited. Whoever shall 
violate the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction in 
the district where the offence shall have been committed, be 
punished for each such offence by a fine of fifty dollars. 
“ Section 3. That the sale, keeping, or offering for sale, 
within any Territory of the United States, or within the District 
of Columbia, of birds, feathers, or parts of birds, for ornamental 
purposes, except such as are excepted in the first section of this 
Act, be, and the same is hereby, prohibited. Whoever shall 
violate the provisions of this section shall, upon conviction, be 
punished for each such offence by a fine of fifty dollars.” 
We heartily approve of this proposed legislation, but we 
value it much more because of its educative influence than 
because of its probable effect as a prohibitive and restrictive 
measure. We have hoped that the women of our country might 
be moved by compassion to abstain from the use of ornaments, 
every one of which costs the life of some innocent and beautiful 
creature of God. In common with all humane people we have 
protested against the selfish vanity of women in wearing such 
certificates of heartlessness. We have appealed to women of 
fashion to use the power which they possess — and it is a power 
