COMMISSION OF CONSERVATION 9 
industry,* and that a beginning of this industry be made in the 
reservation, both to eke out the small stipend of the guardian, and 
as an object lesson to the people. 
If the reservation movement is well managed, so that the people 
are in sympathy with it, it will be a success, and one may look for¬ 
ward to many benefits as a result. First and fundamental, the birds 
will be saved from extinction. This fact may not appeal to the peo¬ 
ple, but the improvement in the shooting during the migrations 
will be welcomed as a great boon. The introduction of the eider¬ 
down industry, which, I believe, will follow the reservation move¬ 
ment, should add a large yearly income to the people of the coast. 
Another desirable result of the reservations will be to make the coast 
more attractive to tourists in general and to ornithologists in par¬ 
ticular, and this class will help the people in several ways. They 
will necessarily spend money along the coast, will introduce better 
transportation facilities and new and better ideas of living. To 
ornithologists everywhere it will be an enormous relief to know that 
the great destruction of bird life, so vividly portrayed by Audubon, 
is at last stayed, and the wonderful bird nurseries of the Labrador 
coast are again assuming their rightful function. 
*See paper “A Plea for the Conservation of the Eider,” by Dr. C. W. Townsend 
“The Auk,” Vol. XXXI, 1914, pp. 14-21. 
