VIII. THE TRAFFIC IN FEATHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
_War on the Sea Swallows--What the Ladies Wore--The Story of the Egrets--Amateur Feather Hunters--Maribou--Pheasants--Numidie--Goura--Women's Love for Feathers--Ostrich Feathers Are Desirable._
IX. BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT . . . HOW LAWS ARE MADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
_Definition of Game--Audubon Laws--Game Law Enforcement--Lacy Lava--Federal Migratory Bird Law--History of Game Laws--The Theory of Shiras--Work of the Bird Committee--Government Explanations--World's Only Bird Treaty._
X. BIRD RESERVATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
_First Federal Bird Reservation--Congressional Sanction--Florida Reservations--Distant Reservations--President Taft a Bird Protectionist--Audubon Society Reservations--The Corkscrew Rookery--Wardens Shot by Plume Hunters._
XI. MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
_Natural Nesting Places Destroyed--Nesting Boxes for Birds--Some Rules for Making and Erecting Bird Boxes--Sites of Bird Boxes--Feeding Birds--Community Sanctuaries--Birdcraft Sanctuary--Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries--A Birdless Cemetery--Birds of a New York Graveyard--Enemies to Be Eliminated--Berries and Fruit for Birds._
XII. TEACHING BIRD STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
_Teaching Children--Junior Audubon Societies--Correlated Studies--Keeping Scrapbooks--Records of Migrants--Essays--Sending Old Nests to City Children--Audubon Prizes--Bird Day._
Wood Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece in color_
A ferocious young Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
A male Plumbeous Gnatcatcher feeding young . . . . . . . . . . 38
A mountain Bluebird family whose home has been destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Young Robins quarreling at their bath . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Feeding station for birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Snowy Egret shot on its feeding grounds . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Farallone Cormorants and White Pelicans on a Government Bird Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112