Bird lore - Project Puffin

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lecturing throughout the state for some
time, under the auspices of the State
Federation, which has supported this
agency generously. The National Asso-
ciation has cooperated in all these matters,
and feels that it is abundantly rewarded
by results. It has now enabled Mrs. Pike
to extend her work, and it anticipates
still larger results in the organization of
Junior Classes, and in the stimulation of a
general interest in the cause throughout
the Columbia Valley.
Feather Importation In Canada
It may not be generally known to the
readers of Bird-Lore that, immediately
following the passage of the Tariff Act in
Washington, on October 3, 1913, which
prohibited the importation of feathers to
this country, the Canadian Parliament,
largely through the efforts of Dr. C. Gordon
Hewitt, passed a somewhat similar
measure. The Canadian law prohibits the
importation of:
"Aigrettes, Egret plumes, or so-called
Osprey plumes, and the feathers, quills,
heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins,
of wild birds, either raw or manufactured;
but this provision shall not come into
effect until January i, 1915, and shall
not apply to the feathers or plumes of
Ostriches; the plumage of the Enghsh
Pheasant and the Indian Peacock; the
plumage of wild birds ordinarily used as
articles of diet; the plumage of birds imported
alive, nor to specimens imported
under regulations of the Minister of Customs
for any natural-history or other
museum, or for educational purposes."
Allan Brooks a Soldier
Allan Brooks, the artist, many of whose
colored pictures of birds have appeared in
Bird-Lore, is with the English Army
"somewhere in France." In the summer
of 191 5 he wrote the oflice that he would
not be able to do further work for the
Association for some time, as he was going
to Europe to study. Almost immediately
after his arrival in England war broke out.
He at once returned to Canada and
enlisted in a company at his home in
British Columbia. He has been promoted
from the rank of Lieutenant to that of
Captain. Last December, when Captain
Brooks had attained the distinction of
the longest continuous trench service of
any officer of the Canadian army, he was
offered a more restful position behind the
lines, but he declined it.
In a letter received by one of his friends
a short time ago he stated that he had
thus far escaped injury with the excep-
tion of deafness in one ear, as a result of
a shell-explosion; and that, if he survived
the war, he would return to
America and hoped to paint better pic-
tures than before.
Deer-Killing Dogs
A lady writes from a village in northern
New York of the evil of loose dogs in
rural communities; and of her care for
winter-birds
:
"On Sunday morning, January 23, two
dogs chased a deer
strayed down from
(a young doe), that
the mountains, and
attacked it most viciously until it sank
exhausted and wounded on the grounds of
the summer home of the church of the
Heavenly Rest, of which my husband is
gardener and caretaker. He and my son
rescued the deer from the dogs, and a neighbor
notified the supervisor, who gave
permission for its removal to a barn, awaiting
the arrival of the game warden. My
three children are members of the Audubon
Society, and are greatly interested in all
wild things. They are heart-broken
about the deer, and we try to protect
everything wild that comes our way. We
have many wild birds around our house,
which we coaxed around by putting little
houses in the branches of nearby trees, and
putting crumbs and scraps in them. We
also fixed some branches of hemlock
on the windowsill of our dining-room, on
which my husband ties pieces of suet,
doughnut, bones, and pieces of a pudding
I make especially for them, of suet, currants,
raisins, bread-crumbs, and scraps of
meat; and oh, how they enjoy it!".
Mrs. John W. Payne.
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