most potent factors in the conservation of our
rapidly disappearing wild life. The Camp-Fire Club of
America has taken, and is taking, an active part in the
movement for the establishment of such sanctuaries in
various places. We believe that such sanctuaries should be
established in Labrador in the near future, while an
abundance of undeveloped land is available and before the
wild life has been decimated to such an extent as to make
its preservation difficult;

"_Be it therefore Resolved_, that the Secretary convey to
Colonel Wood the assurance of our hearty interest in and
approval of the plan to establish adequate animal
sanctuaries in Labrador, and our hope that such sanctuaries
will be established in the near future."

Dr. John M. Clarke, Director, Science Division, New York State
Education Department, and a gentleman acquainted with the wild life of
the gulf of St. Lawrence, writes:

I have taken much interest in reading your paper. It seems
to be based on an extraordinary acquaintance with the
situation.

Canada is blessed with many unique natural resorts of animal
life and I have been particularly impressed with the
invasions that have been made on the wonderful nesting
places of the waterfowl. In my repeated stays on the coast
of Gaspe and the islands of the Gulf, now running over a
dozen years, I have had my attention forced to the hideous
sacrifices of bird life that are constantly going on; for
example in the Magdalen islands with their extraordinary
array of shore birds. The great lagoons within the islands
afford ideal breeding conditions, and an extraordinary
attraction for the hunter as well.

My observation leads me to the conviction that the shooting
law is not in the least respected on these islands, except
perhaps by the residents themselves. In some cases the
outsider is obliged to wait for the fall migration of the
ducks and geese and so comes within the law, but there are
plenty of early migrants that arrive during the close
season, only to be quickly picked up by the summer hunter,
who realizes that he is too far away to incur the law's
force.

As far as the shore birds are concerned, it is not the
occasional hunter that does the real damage. The islands are
becoming widely known to students o