thing compared with the destruction caused by the bird students.  It is a severe indictment of the ornithologist that such statements as the foregoing happen to be true.

Almost as remarkable for its number of waterfowl of the same species is the roost on the east cliffs of Bonaventure island.  These have fortunately been rendered by Nature, thus far, inaccessible and the bird men have not yet found a way of getting among them.  Yet, even so, there is constantly a great deal of reckless shooting at the birds simply for the sake of “stirring them up.”  This place is not protected by law, I believe, as a special reservation, but that might easily be brought about if the matter were placed in the hands of some responsible citizen residing on that island.

There is a happy situation in connection with the great Perce rock at Perce, on the top of which the gulls and cormorants have kept house for untold generations.  These birds are a constant temptation to the men with a gun, but the Perce people are so attached to the birds that no one would ever think of killing one, except the occasional French fisherman who will eat a young gull when hard pressed.  Any attempt made by outsiders to use the birds as targets is resented so strongly that even the cormorants are let live.

Your address seems to me timely and extremely pertinent.  I hope your proposition may receive more than passing attention and the suggestions therein be made effective, for they certainly aim to maintain the natural attractions and the natural resources of the country.

Mr. Napoleon A. Comeau, author of Life and Sport on the North Shore, and one who has had fifty years’ practical experience within the Labrador area, writes from Godbout River, Que.: 

I trust your good work will be crowned with success.  A lot of good has already been accomplished by the spreading of literature on this subject by the Audubon Society, the A.O.U. and others, but much remains to be accomplished.  It has always been my aim in this section to prevent wanton destruction of all kinds and I am glad to say I have had considerable success in educating our younger generation here.  Small birds of all kinds used to be wantonly killed by boys, a thing I rarely see now—­it was the same in the other ways by men—­but I must say that real trappers or Indians are not the worst by any means.  These men will kill at all times and seasons but only through necessity; strangers and so-called sportsmen are generally the offenders.  I have been a trapper myself for years, a professional, but had been taught never to kill wantonly....  Of course, much study and care must be exercised in preserving species of birds and animals from destruction, or else, as you say, mistakes may be made.  There are species of such that are destructive to others when allowed to increase beyond certain limits, and it takes a very short time to do that in some