. Bird lore . nnedHawk. Your man on Bird Key is an ardentrat-trapper and is doing well as a warden. Battledore Island, La.—Throughthe courtesy of the National Associationand of Mr. Frank M. Miller, Presidentof the Louisiana Audubon Society, I to spend the first eleven days ofJune, 1908, on the Association patrolboat, Royal Tern, on a cruise over theentire Breton Island Reservation, off thecoast of Louisiana, and among all theislands owned or controlled by the Louisi-ana Audubon Society. In this briefgeneral statement preliminary to a fullreport I have space only for some generalrem

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. Bird lore . nnedHawk. Your man on Bird Key is an ardentrat-trapper and is doing well as a warden. Battledore Island, La.—Throughthe courtesy of the National Associationand of Mr. Frank M. Miller, Presidentof the Louisiana Audubon Society, I to spend the first eleven days ofJune, 1908, on the Association patrolboat, Royal Tern, on a cruise over theentire Breton Island Reservation, off thecoast of Louisiana, and among all theislands owned or controlled by the Louisi-ana Audubon Society. In this briefgeneral statement preliminary to a fullreport I have space only for some generalremarks. My main impression is of a vast areaof shallow waters, low-lying islands of saltmarsh, and outer sand-keys far to seaward^in all, hundreds of square miles, most of itteeming, sometimes swarming, with bird-life. I was too late to see the immensesquadrons of wintering or migratory wild-fowl, which, after enjoying this peacefulhaven of refuge where guns are outlawed,had departed for the far north. All but.

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