The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-03-22
AUDUBON SOCIETY CHARTERED
TO PROTECT THE STATES BIRDS
1t Will Stop the Destruction of Our Song Birds and
Sea GuIIs and Terms. Prof. Pearson the
Prime Mover
Prime Mover.

sion upon the merits of the bill. did n
thing that was practically unprecedented.
The title of the law is IAN Act to Incor-
porate the Audubon Society of North
Carolina and to Protect and Preserve the
Song and Game Birds of the State
The incorporators are: j. Y. Joyner, 7.
Gilbert Pearson, X. II. Lewis, II. H.
Brimley, P. D. Gold, J. f. Jordan and
r. n. Wilson.
The bill stipulates that only the fol-
lowing shall be considered game birds:
looms and grebes swans geese, brant,
river, fish and sea ducks, rail coots, mud
hens and gallinules, plovers, shore and
serf birds, snipe, wood cock san pipers.
yellowlegs and curlews wild turkeys.
grouse, partridge, pheasant, quail, dove,
robin and meadow lark.
1t is made unlawful to kill or catch
any other wild bird, or to destroy need
lessly the nest or eggs of any wild nom
game birds.
y The house sparrow, owls, hawks crows,
black birds, jackdaw and rice birds are
not protected by the act.
1t is made unlawful to purchase, offer
for sale, or transport without the State
wild birds, game and otherwise except
for propagation purposes by permission
of the society, or by permit from the
clerk OF the court.
The appointment of game wardens by
the Governor is provided for, to see that
the law Is carried OFT.
There is a provision requiring all hun
ters coming from other States to pay $40
for 2 license in every county in which
they shoot
This money is to go to the society to
pay the expenses of the wardens.
The bill calls for no appropriation from
the State, but provides for revenue to
be raised oddly enough from a class Of
persons, numbers of whom have already
declared thei desire to furnish it. These
are the non. 'ident gunners. 1t is pro-
posed to reqm a gunner, not a resident
Of the State pay $40 for a seasons
license before he can shoot in the State,
this money to be turned over to the Au-
dubon Society to be used for the employ
ment Of game wardens.
The Audubon bill also provides for the
protection of the song and most OF the
insect destroying birds of the State.
Another provision of great Importance
is the prohibiting of the further shoot
ing of the beautiful sea gulls and terms
1t is well known to the people OF the
State that the vast swarms of these
birds which a few years ago bred on our
coast have nearly all been slaughtered
for millinery purposes, and their young
left to rot in the sunshine. Along the
coast of every State north of North Car
DINA, the birds are protected by war
dens, and the birds are permitted to rear
their young in safety. They are also pro-
tected about the Florida coast. wherc
they go in numbers upon the approach OF
winter. But during the migrating season
as they pass the North Carolina coast
they are waylad and systematically shot
for their feathers
1t is known that one man along the
Carolina banks hires several men to
shoot these birds. and has already been
responsible for the destruction of largo
numbers of them.
Prof. T. Gilbert Pearson of the state
Normal and Industrial College. Green's
poro' drew the bill. and it was intro
duced by Representative Wescott Rober-
son. of Guilford