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many safeguards have been put into this provision. Hawks for falconry 
must be obtained from a dealer, and young birds cannot be taken from 
the nest. 
At the time the article was written for the September, 1957, issue of 
the Audubon Bulletin, we did not know too much about the protection given 
to Crows. No protection has been given to them. Under the bill passed in 
1957, Crows were listed among the birds that could be hunted with a license. 
Before this was inserted in the Game Code, a gunman could be afield with a 
gun, hunting birds without a license, and tell the enforcement officers that 
he was shooting Crows. Now that a license is required, a man has to have 
a specific reason to carry a gun afield. This permits better control. 
Our new Hawk and Ow! Law is better than those in other states. In Illi- 
nois, individual birds that are causing damage may be destroyed by the 
landowner, but he must be able to prove the damage. In most states, one 
only has to say that a hawk or owl was damaging property or livestock. 
Here one must be able to prove the destruction. We now have an excellent 
bird protection law; let’s keep it. Attempts will be made to have the law 
changed. One attempt has already been made. However, it failed miserably, 
as it won no support in a hunting club where pressure was applied. 
Box 112, Route 1, East Moline, Il. 
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FUERTES QUAIL TO HANG IN STATE PARKS 
VISITORS TO SEVERAL Illinois State Parks next year will have the pleasure 
of seeing lithographed copies of the Fuertes Quail, the same drawing that 
appears on our J.A.S. armband. These framed pictures, a gift of the Illinois 
Audubon Society, will hang in the lodges at Starved Rock, Giant City, Pere 
Marquette, Illinois Beach, and White Pines State Parks, through the co- 
operation extended the Society by the Conservation Department of Illinois. 
Other copies of the Fuertes Quail are being distributed in the southern 
part of the state by Mrs. C. F. Russell, an I.A.S. Director from Decatur. 
They will hang in public libraries in Effingham, Hillsboro, Rantoul, and 
Lincoln; other cities will also benefit. In the greater Chicago area, Raymond 
Mostek of Lombard has distributed copies of the picture to the York Center 
Public Library, the Stephen Mather High School of Chicago, and the Wild 
Life Haven at Glen Ellyn. The Cook County Forest Preserve District has 
accepted two pictures to hang in the lodges at Camp Sagawa in Palos Hills. 
This area is used for teacher-training courses. 
Louis Agassiz Fuertes was an ornithologist and lecturer at Cornell Uni- 
versity; his pictures are to be found in many bird books. He is well known 
for his work on the Harriman expedition to Alaska and his natural history 
discoveries in Western Texas and New Mexico. His life-like drawing of a 
quail standing in a grain field was made especially for the I.A.S. about 35 
years ago. An engraving of the picture has appeared ever since as part of 
the I.A.S. stationery and on our membership application blanks. 
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