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conservation of wild life has become a nation-wide issue. States are 
passing laws for their protection. 
Pennsylvania has probably done more for the protection of wild life 
than any other state. In 1905 the legislature authorized the state game 
commission, with the consent of the department of forestry, to establish 
game refuges within state forests. At the present time the state has 
nearly 100 such refuges totaling over a million acres distributed over 
almost half of its counties. A keeper is in charge of each refuge, and no 
person is permitted to hunt or disturb the game or birds within the 
limits of refuges with either gun or dog at any time of the year. The 
steady increase of the supply of both large and small game in the refuges 
and on the large public hunting grounds surrounding them has been re- 
markable. 
Tennessee is making progress in the conservation of her wild life under 
Calhoun, the present game commissioner, who is enforcing the laws and 
educating our people in every way that he can as to the importance of 
wild life conservation. He needs the support of every citizen. We have 
two local organizations, the Audubon society and the Izaac Walton 
League which are devoted to the preservation and conservation of wild 
life. 
These organizations merit your active support. Let us assure the 
future of our helpful birds and other forms of wild life by giving them 
ample protection. 
It has been stated by the highest authorities on the subject that the 
age of mammals is drawing to a close and fifty years more will see the 
last of virtually all wild four-footed creatures. But, while twenty years 
ago a similar fate seemed to threaten the bird world, that condition has 
been greatly relieved. The world may yet see an “‘age of birds.” 
Tufted Titmouse Observations 
By WM. I. LYON 
ANY times during the colder months of the year I had heard the 
M call of peto peto peto peto and watched the small bunch of gray 
feathers hurrying about the branches in the tops of the tall 
trees, but never had the opportunity of making a close observation until 
November of 1922 when my first Tufted Titmouse was found in a trap. 
After being banded it repeated in the trap several times and brought 
another to be trapped and banded a week later. Of course it had to be 
photo’d, but the problem of how to keep the bird from fighting long 
enough to get its picture was difficult. After much posing and waiting 
it heard the call of the mate and sat erect to listen just long enough for 
the camera to snap the picture, then it was off. 
