8 BIRD CONSERVATION IN LABRADOR 
A campaign of education is necessary, therefore, and I believe 
that the bird reservation will do more good in making the people 
understand, not only the need of bird conservation, but its advan¬ 
tages. The game wardens will be looked upon, not as enemies to be 
avoided and cheated, but as friends who are working for the people’s 
good. If the matter is well managed, the people will regard their 
reservation with pride, and public opinion will keep the birds there 
inviolate. The wasted regions near fishing villages now devoid of 
all sea-bird life on the one hand and the crowded bird reservations 
oil the other will be powerful object lessons in this process of educa¬ 
tion. I would suggest the placing of a brief notice on each reserva¬ 
tion, printed in English, as well as in French, Montagnais or Eskimo, 
where these languages are used, worded somewhat as follows: 
BIRD RESERVATION 
The purpose of this reservation is to preserve the 
birds from destruction and to increase their numbers, 
so that there will be better shooting on the coast. The 
people are asked not to disturb the birds or their eggs 
on this reservation and to avoid the use of guns in its 
neighbourhood. 
There are a number of places that could be named, some of which 
have responsible men living near, who could be made guardians. 
For example, on the Canadian Labrador coast I would suggest a 
small island at the mouth of the bay of Seven Islands, the Perroquet 
Islands off Long point, Mingan, where the lighthouse keeper could 
be put in charge; Sea Cow island and the small islands in its neigh¬ 
bourhood near Eskimo point; an island at Betchewan; one at 
Piashti bay; one or two at Natashkuan; a strip of the sandy shore 
near the lighthouse at Natashkuan point; Triple islands, off Ro- 
maine; Outer and Gull islands and the cliffs of cape Whittle; 
Gull island at point au Maurier, where the interesting colony of 
ring-billed gulls breed; St. Mary’s island, with its lighthouse; one 
of the Harrington group of islands; Treble Hill island and Flat 
island off Great Mekattina; some of the islands of Kecarpoui, near 
Shekaticka and Old Fort, and lastly, and very important, the famous 
Perroquet island, in Bradore bay. On the Newfoundland Labrador 
similar scattered reservations should be made. 
These scattered reservations are, it seems to me, more important 
and more easily kept sacred than large ones, such as the 64 miles of 
coast between Cape Whittle and Mekattina, suggested by Col. 
William Wood in his admirable address in 1911 on “Animal Sanc¬ 
tuaries in Labrador.” 
Some of these islands are now nearly depopulated of birds, but 
the birds can be trusted to find out where they are safe. On the 
coast of the United States, where reservations have been established, 
sometimes close to great cities, the birds, that are elsewhere very 
shy and wary, are here tame and confiding. I would also suggest 
that the guardian of the reservation be instructed in the eider down 
