WILDLIFE RESTORATION AND CONSERVATION 
 
 
Little brown crane grulla (Grus canadensis). 
  This is one of many species of crane spread over all the continents. 
A -winter inhabitant of some portions of the country and a bird of 
passage in others. 
  Mostly found in the northern States, that is to say Sonora, Lower 
California, Nuevo Leon, and Coahuila. Flies south in winter in 
search of warmth, when it frequents lakes in Michoacan, Morelos, 
Tlaxcala, Puebla, etc., and flies back north in the spring. 
Swans (Cygninae), Geese (Anserinae), and Ducks (Anatinae). 
  Almost all these are migratory birds wintering in our country, 
much hunted by sportsmen in its central portions, and over lakes 
in the northern part of the Republic. This branch of sport will al- 
ways be expensive due to the high cost of cartridges in Mexico. 
SArnwdas or wholesale tier-shooting was forbidden 4 years ago by 
presidential decree, but is still occasionally practiced by evading 
oficial vigilance. 
  I sincerely trust that the information I have contributed may be 
of use for the purposes of this conference, and to bring my talk to 
a close, I wish to express to the honorable delegates, on behalf of 
my Government, our sincere appreciation of the opportunity afforded 
to us, through this conference, of cooperating in the good work of 
protecting wildlife and to express our feelings of cordial friendship 
and esteem for the governments and peoples of the United States 
of America and Canada. [Applause.] 
  Chairman SiLcOX. We are very appreciative of your address, Mr. 
Zinser, on the situation of the wildlife in Mexico, and we appreciate 
your bringing to the attention of this conference the species in 
your country. 
  We have a representative from the Canadian Government, who will 
bring to us a message on "The administration of the wildlife of 
Canada." Mr. Hoyes Lloyd, who has been very active in this work 
for a great many years, is secretary of the advisory board on wildlife 
protection, of anada. [Applause.] 
                  REMARKS OF MR. HoyEs LLOYD 
  Mr. Hoym LioYD (Ottawa, Canada). Mr. Chairman, ladies and 
gentlemen: I had the pleasure of introducing our chairman last 
year, and he has to introduce me this year, you see, just from 
courtesy. 
  I don't think that it need be attributed to the fact that I presided 
over the American Game Conference last year that immediately 
afterwards it became defunct and dead, because it has just grown 
into this larger conference, which I am delighted to see. 
  In Canada the administration of wildlife in the various Provinces, 
  aside from that in the national parks of Canada, is a, Provincial 
responsibility. The ratification of the migratory bird treaty with 
the consent of the Provinces, and the passing of the Migratory Birds 
Convention Act in 1917, changed this slghtly and brought the 
administration of migratory birds under the jurisdiction of the 
Dominion. 
  The migratory birds treaty was a culmination of several years' 
efforts effectively to protect migratory bird life in North America. 
 
 
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