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Title: The American Museum journal
Identifier: americanmuseumjo13amer (find matches)
Year: c1900-(1918) (c190s)
Authors: American Museum of Natural History
Subjects: Natural history
Publisher: New York : American Museum of Natural History
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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Pelican Island, Florida. From the painting by Bruce Horsfal, background of the brown pelican group in the American Museum. Pelican Island, the first national bird reser- vation, was set aside in March. 1903. by order of President Roosevelt. It is guarded by a warden employed by the National Association of Audubon Societies. Only visitors who have secured a permit from this warden are allowed to land on the island albatrosses, shearwaters, frigate birds, noddy and sooty terns, and the beautiful snow-white Pacific tern resort to breed. Here are also found resident throughout the year the peculiar Laysan rail, the Laysan teal, the Laysan finch, and the Miller bird. How the Birds are Protected In many cases the chief protection to the birds lies in the isolation of the reservation. The islands on the Washington coast and the Farallon Reservation are very difficult to land on even when the sea is smooth, and in rough weather are practically inaccessible. On the larger and more accessible reservations wardens are stationed throughout the year or at least during the season when the birds are breeding. In several cases, chiefly through the cooperation of the National Association of Audubon Societies, motor boats are provided for the use of the wardens in patrolling the waters about the islands. To protect the birds on Bird Key in the Dry Tortugas, recourse is had to the Navy Department which several times each year sends a Naval tug from Key West to the reservation to transport the warden and his supplies. In the case of the Hawaiian Reservation a revenue cutter is now despatched from Honolulu at least once each year and sometimes oftener, to make the round of the islands and ascertain whether the birds have been disturbed. In 1909 a company of twenty-three Japanese plumage-hunters visited Laysan and Lysianski and destroyed 212

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