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Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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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es sent agents into Texasand secured the passage of the ModelBird Law. In 1904, the Texas AudubonSociety was re-organized, with CaptainDavis as its secretary, and since that timehe has been the most potential factor inthat state toward the protection of wildbirds and wild animals. He writes andlectures constantly on the subject of birdand game protection, and is exerting awonderful influence for good. The Times-Herald, the daily paper ofWaco, has this to say of his work: Cap-tain Davis has waged a brilliant and suc-cessful campaign for bird protection forseveral years, and has succeeded in re-peopling the forests, the prairies, themeadows and the groves with bird life,which was rapidly reaching the point oftotal annihilation at the time he took holdof the work. To Captain Davis, more thanto any other one man, is due the pro-tective laws on the Texas statute books.He, more than any one else, deserves thecredit for the expulsion from the state ofthe market hunters and the plume hunters,
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DAMS ion of Audubon 214 Bird-Lore and, when Captain Davis dies, he shouldhave a monument with birds engravedon the column, and there no doubt thesongsters will gather and sing a requiem ofpeace to his soul. In disposition. Captain Davis is verygenerous and kind-hearted, but he prose-cutes his work with the vigor of a truecrusader. He is a most entertaining gentle-man, and has at his command a large fundof stories, which the writer has heard himrelate with most telling effect, both onthe rostrum and in the chapparal.—T.Gilbert Pearson. State Societies News The New Jersey .\udubon Society isabout to send throughout the State avery large number of appeals for new mem-bers. The appeal will be signed by a num-ber of citizens who are deeply interestedin the conservation of wild bird life inXew Jersey. SOME ENDORSEMENTS My dear Sir:—.\llow me to acknowl-edge with warm appreciation your kindletter of the seventh of September. It willgive me pleasure to have you use my namein connection wi

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