IX. BIRD-PROTECTIVE LAWS AND THEIR ENFORCEMENT . . . HOW LAWS ARE MADE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 _Definition of Game--Audubon Laws--Game Law Enforcement--Lacy Lava--Federal Migratory Bird Law--History of Game Laws--The Theory of Shiras--Work of the Bird Committee--Government Explanations--World's Only Bird Treaty._ X. BIRD RESERVATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 _First Federal Bird Reservation--Congressional Sanction--Florida Reservations--Distant Reservations--President Taft a Bird Protectionist--Audubon Society Reservations--The Corkscrew Rookery--Wardens Shot by Plume Hunters._ XI. MAKING BIRD SANCTUARIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 _Natural Nesting Places Destroyed--Nesting Boxes for Birds--Some Rules for Making and Erecting Bird Boxes--Sites of Bird Boxes--Feeding Birds--Community Sanctuaries--Birdcraft Sanctuary--Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries--A Birdless Cemetery--Birds of a New York Graveyard--Enemies to Be Eliminated--Berries and Fruit for Birds._ XII. TEACHING BIRD STUDY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239 _Teaching Children--Junior Audubon Societies--Correlated Studies--Keeping Scrapbooks--Records of Migrants--Essays--Sending Old Nests to City Children--Audubon Prizes--Bird Day._ {xiii} LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Wood Thrush . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece in color_ HALF-TONE CUTS Facing Page A ferocious young Eagle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 Gannets nesting on the cliffs of Bonaventure Island, Gulf of St. Lawrence . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 A male Plumbeous Gnatcatcher feeding young . . . . . . . . . . 38 A mountain Bluebird family whose home has been destroyed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48 Young Robins quarreling at their bath . . . . . . . . . . . . 64 Feeding station for birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Snowy Egret shot on its feeding grounds . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Farallone Cormorants and White Pelicans on a Government Bird Reservation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Window "Cafeteria" at home of Mrs. Granville Pike . . . . . . 128 A Christmas dinner for the birds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 An Egret, bearing "aigrettes," in attendance on her young . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Egret brooding on a Florida island owned and guarded by the Audubon Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 The Downy Woodpecker is fond of suet . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Members of a Junior Audubon class at Fergus Falls, Minnesota . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 A California Hospital for injured birds . . . . . . . . . . . 224