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Assistant United States Attorney, 
Atlanta, (Jsorgla* 
Dear t&r* Henlay * 
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1 wish ym would accept ay timaiss for fear latter of the 1st 
instant, reporting In detail the’result of osrtaia prosecutions for 
violations of the Moratory Bird frosty Act at Atliesis. I take tills • 
occasion to iaproaa my own as soil as the PspartMBt’s appreciation 
of tli® earnest and vigorous attention yon hare given to these eases. 
and to say that ha Hits scop®ration in all districts In the 
country wo fml that the purposes of the 1 m would wary speedily fee 
secured* 
1 m smcli Interested in your stateaent of the attitude of 
defendant denyeph 1# in, and will proceed to advise you with 
reference to, the questions you raise relative to Ms proposed defease. 
It is cults evident to oa from your statement of Mo case his 
■belief is uwA mks indicted ion hilling growl 4«ms# sailed 
are known to him and others in MS o«ataaity a. K gafflu g doves. $hi 
confusion arises out of the fact that in the south - and I may say 
hart that ay hmm is in Florida - the true aosarnihg devo is loaown 
tc turtle or Carolina done, while th© little | w& dovo is cult© 
coouesly called mourning dove. If the defendant had la.Hod yroimd 
not liars fcesa lodictafcla, as the ground dove 
Species; it not a Myrutory doss botwocm the United States and Can. la* 
But the fact is that hs hilled mourning lofts, Imoim to hi m m turtle 
loves, and It will ho 0 , vary easy natter to prove that the doves ho 
II ■ i wore maun turtle denes and act ground Hnn* Sou 
probably knot of your ow& lajowltbge that no out hunts grg&ad doves 
in t'.-c south# ?hi*N» are not ©a of that to furnish the slightSft 
decree of sport, they are too small, an! t - , Sc not eongrsgato in 
flocks as do the mourning doves. ddtoy rarely art seen mors than 
three t< Ilf only two# S’na moivuiing loros saw iJ wrgia 
and other southern states in the winter in vast tms®R , ooogre;.jating 
in floods sometimes of a thousand or more. 
In short, the "newalJCg* dovo of ornithology is 
is protected by the lliyratoiey Bird frosty and the Act of 
a ir&^rafeorr bird between the United Cfcatoo sal Canada 
tiiQ dove which 
f 0 ongro os'. 
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is the dove 
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