le of game stolen by market gunners from Maryland,
Virginia, the Carolinas and Pennsylvania.

It is time for Congress to bring the District of Columbia sharply into
line; for Washington must be made to toe the mark beside New York. The
reputation of the national capital demands it, whether the gods of the
cafes will consent or not.

FLORIDA:

Shooting shore birds and waterfowl in late winter and spring should
be stopped.

The sale of all native wild game should be prohibited.

A State Game Commissioner whose term of office should be not less
than four years, and a force of salaried game wardens, should be
appointed.

A general resident license should be required for hunting.

The killing of does and fawns should be stopped, and no deer should
be killed save bucks with horns at least three inches long.

The bag limit of five deer per year should be two deer; of twenty
quail, and two turkeys per day should be ten quail and one turkey.

The open season on all game birds should end on February 1, for
domestic reasons.

Protection should be accorded doves, and robins should be removed
from the game list.

In the destruction of wild life, I think the backwoods population of
Florida is the most lawless and defiant that can be found anywhere in
the United States. The "plume-hunters" have practically exterminated the
plume-bearing egrets, wholly annihilated the roseate spoonbill, the
flamingo, and also the Carolina parrakeet. On July 8, 1905, one of them
killed an Audubon Association Warden, Guy M. Bradley, whose business it
was to enforce the state laws protecting the egret rookeries. The people
really to blame for the shooting of Guy Bradley, and the extermination
of the egrets by lawless and dangerous men, are the vain and merciless
women who wear the "white badges of cruelty" as long as they can be
purchased! They have much to answer for!

Originally, Florida was alive with bird life. For number of species,
abundance of individuals, and general dispersal throughout the whole
state, I think no other state in America except possibly California ever
possessed a bird fauna quite comparable with it. Once its bird life was
one of the wonders of America. But the gunners began early to shoot, and
shoot, and shoot. During the fifteen years preceding 1898, the general
bird life of Florida decreased in volume 77 per cent. In 1900 it was at
a very low point, and it has steadily continued to d