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of "collecting". 
Within a limited district in the outskirts of Malden, 
Mass., fifty broods of native sens eek. were this season Kept 
under trained observation: Of these fifty broods, only ten escaped 
robbery by boys. Woburn sends in a similar report. In Medford, 4 
few seasons back, one of the keenest bird-observers in the state 
reported a still higher percentage of robbery. 
We have law enough to stop this, but the law is practi- 
cally a dead letter. 
A leading idea of the Bird-Restorer organization is the 
diversion of this craze for spoliation, by organizing youth ( and 
to some extent adults) into badged Obversation and Protection 
Patrols, nis tenes to definite local districts inhabited by birds, 
which they are to traverse as often as other duties may allow, 
keeping the native birds and broods they find under chivalrous 
protection and regularly reporting resvlts of the trips to the 
local societies, on saceok saan prepared for the pur pos @. 
Wherever presented, this patrol idea has so far been re- 
ceived with enthusiasm both by the young and by adults, “It is now 
in successful local operation. 
Other leading ideas are the planting of trees and shrub- 
bery, especially for the birds, the systematic erection of suitable 
bird-houses and the providing of food and nesting material for song 
birds, the providing of free practical talks, and the circulation 
of good literature about birds, co-operation with the birds through 
