all migrations. Huron Island and
Siskiwit in Lake Superior, the homes of innumerable Herring Gulls, were
made perpetual bird sanctuaries, and Audubon wardens took up their
lonely watch to guard them against all comers.

_Florida Reservations._--At the mouth of Tampa Bay, Florida, is a
ninety-acre island, Passage Key. Here the wild bird life of the Gulf
Coast has swarmed in the mating season since white man first knew the
{195} country. Thousands of Herons of various species, as well as
Terns and shore birds, make this their home. Dainty little Ground
Doves flutter in and out among the cactus on the sheltered sides of the
sand dunes; Plovers and Sandpipers chase each other along the beaches,
and the Burrowing Owls here hide in their holes by night and roam over
the island by day.

When this place was described to President Roosevelt, he immediately
declared that the birds must not be killed there without the consent of
the Secretary of Agriculture. With one stroke of his pen he brought
this desirable condition into existence, and Mrs. Asa Pillsbury was
duly appointed to protect the island. She is one of the few women bird
wardens in America.

These things happened in the early days of Government work for the
protection of water birds. The Audubon Society had found a new field
for endeavour, highly prolific in results. With the limited means at
its command the work of ornithological exploration was carried forward.
Every island, mud flat, and sand bar along the coast of the Mexican
{196} Gulf, from Texas to Key West, was visited by trained
ornithologists who reported their findings to the New York office.
These were forwarded to Washington for the approval of Dr. T. S. Palmer
of the Biological Survey, and Frank Bond, of the General Land Office,
where executive orders were prepared for the President's signature.

The Breton Island Reservation off the coast of Louisiana, including
scores of islands and bars, was established in 1904. Six additional
reservations were soon created along the west coast of Florida, thus
extending a perpetual guardianship over the colonies of sea and
coastwise birds in that territory--the pitiful remnants of vast
rookeries despoiled to add to the profits of the millinery trade.

The work was early started in the West resulting in the Malheur Lake
and Klamath Lake reservations of Oregon. The latter is to-day the
summer home of myriads of Ducks, Geese, Grebes, White Pelicans, and
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