iamee De GU Neo: UREN 49 
The International Committee for Bird Preservation 
The following is an extract from a letter recently received by 
our Secretary, Miss Catherine A. Mitchell: 
“T wish to draw your attention to the work of the International 
Committee for Bird Preservation. National Sections composed of 
official representatives of the leading ornithological and conservation 
societies in twenty-six countries* are organized to advance the cause 
of bird protection. 
“Our work in Continental Europe is centralized in the Brussels 
office of the Secretariat, and in like manner the countries of the 
British Empire are connected with the London office. In New York, 
we are now working especially with the West Indies, Central America, 
and South America. Within the past few months we have learned 
that in most of the countries to the south of us almost no attention is 
paid to bird protection. Great numbers of our birds, including twenty- 
one species of ducks, many song birds, and virtually all of our more 
important shore birds, pass the winter south of us. We cannot hope 
to rebuild our North American bird supply without the aid of these 
southern neighbors which are doing no more for the protection of 
birds than was being done in the United States forty years ago. 
“We desire to gather all possible information regarding bird- 
protective conditions in other countries. We would, therefore, be glad 
if you will draw to the attention of your membership this movement 
for saving the birds that know no national boundaries, and ask any 
who have traveled abroad to advise us regarding their observations 
on bird-protective conditions. 
“The Fourth Bulletin of the International Committee for Bird 
Preservation will gladly be furnished upon request. 
Yours sincerely, 
T. GILBERT PEARSON, 
President Emeritus, 
Nat’l. Ass’n. of Audubon Societies.” 
Dr. Pearson is Chairman of the International Committee. The 
address of the American office is 1775 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 
*( Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, 
Ecuador, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Mexico, 
Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Rumania, Sweden, Switzerland, Union 
of South Africa, United States, Yugoslavia. ] 
