ORNITHOLOGY 



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ox THE INDIAN RIVER, FLORIDA 



With the Audubon Societies. 



NOTES FRo^r THE ANNUAL KEI'OKT. 



The Annual Report of the national 

 association of Audubon Societies shows 

 that this organization now has assets 

 amounting to over $400,000, about 

 ninety per cent of which is credited to 

 the endowment fund. Its income for 

 the year just closed, with unexpended 

 balance carried over from the year pre- 

 vious gave the society $106,787.12 as a 

 total available sum for its year's work. 

 Of this amount, about $80,000 was ex- 

 pended, — the greater proportion being 

 for educational work in its various de- 

 partments, — leaving a substantial bal- 

 ance at the close of its fiscal year, Oct. 

 19. 



A new island has been purchased in 

 Orange Lake, Florida at a cost of $250. 

 Boats now owned by the society and 

 used in bird protection work aggregate 

 some $3,000 in value. A little more 

 than that sum was spent in the egret 

 protection work in the South, and has 

 accomplished results of great value. 



Reports of the various officers of the 

 association ; of field agents, secretaries 

 of the state societies and wardens all 

 seem to have a cheerful tone and show 



large things accomplished the past 

 year in bird conservation work, look- 

 ing forward with bright prospects for 

 the coming season. The new depart- 

 ment of Applied Ornithology, under 

 the expert guidance of the Rev. Her- 

 bert K. Job, is proving a great success, 

 and showed a balance of about $4000 

 at the close of the vear's work. 



Moving Pictures of Bird Protection 

 Work. 



Arrangements are being made by the 

 national association to have some of 

 the excellent moving picture reels of 

 l)ird protection work, obtained by Mr. 

 Job, exhibited in regular moving pic- 

 ture houses throughout the country. 

 This should have a far-reaching effect 

 in educating young people to protect, 

 rather than to destroy, our native birds, 

 as it will bring this work before thous- 

 ands of people not reached through the 

 ordinarv channels of the Audubon 

 Work. " 



If Nature you would know, 



You have not far to go; 



The nearest road, or left or right, 

 Will bring her breezy realms in sight, 



And lay her portals low. 



— Emma Peirce. 



