Image from page 279 of "Bird-lore" (1899)
Identifier: birdlore17nati
Title: Bird-lore
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library
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atif she (it must be a woman or else a manwho had a remarkably good mother) willsend me her address, she need not giveher name, I will send her a few views ofour mine and vicinity as a small tokenof my appreciation. Aigrettes Seized We have been untiring in our effortsto assist the Conservation Commissionin New York to bring violators to justice. had their attention called to the illicitsale of aigrettes six weeks ago. Theyassigned Protectors Benson, Ward, Gal-lagher, Wacker and Allen to find thelawbreakers, but this group made noprogress until they called in the help ofwoman detectives. By this means forbidden goods werelocated, according to the raiders, in theshops of Thomas Reilly, No. 9 WestThirty-third street; L. Yarmus, No. 63Clinton Street; Goldstein and Metz, No.73 West One Hundred and SixteenthStreet; R. Harris, No. 17 Clinton Street,and M. Finklestein, No. 137 DelanceyStreet. These stocks were seized. The Thomas Reilly mentioned above isthe man recently placed under bonds in
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A BALD EAGLE KILLED FOR THE FUN OF IT. THESE MEN NEED EDUCATION It is with much pride therefore that wequote the following from the New YorkWorld, April 20, 1915. Five dealers in millinery supplieswere raided yesterday, and the city officeof the State Game Conservation Com-mission captured $10,000 worth ofaigrettes. The dealers not only perma-nently lost these ornaments, but becameliable to a general fine of $60 each, and anadditional penalty of $25 for each bird.The State law makes possession ofaigrettes for purposes of sale a misde-meanor. Chief Game Protector Llewllyn Legge,and Division Chief John T. McCormick, connection with the seizure of a largeillegal importation of wild-birds feathersby Captain T. J. Ashe, an agent of thisAssociation. Two New Federal Reservations The United States Government hasset apart as refuges for breeding birdstwo projections of the south coast of theStraits of San Juan de Fuca, Washington.One forms the outer barrier of the harborof Port Angeles, and is
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