214 BIRD FRIENDS 



Burroughs Nature Club. The Burroughs Nature 

 Club was organized in 1910 for the purpose of study- 

 ing Mr. Burroughs's writings, and local clubs have 

 been formed in many towns. This club has taken 

 a special interest in the protection of bird life. 



Examples of the development of the Burroughs 

 Club idea appear in the bird sanctuaries established 

 by the organization. Among the most notable is the 

 "Wren's Nest," the old home of Joel Chandler 

 Harris at Atlanta, Georgia, dedicated by Mr. Bur- 

 roughs himself by placing a wren's nesting-box on 

 a branch near the porch where so many of the Uncle 

 Remus stories were written. 



The Cottage Grove and Fernwood Sanctuary was 

 established by the Rochester Burroughs Club on 

 the shore of Lake Ontario. 



Near Ellenville, Ulster County, New York, the 

 Mount Meenahga estate of seven hundred acres, 

 in the midst of a wild section of about four thousand 

 acres, has become one of their regular sanctuaries, 

 where there have been erected over one hundred 

 nesting-boxes and devices for winter feeding. 



Each year, Burroughs's birthday, April 3, is ob- 

 served by the dedication of new sanctuaries, usually 

 consisting of school grounds or public parks. The 

 year 1915 saw this done in Utica, New York, and 

 in Toledo, Ohio, where the bird-boxes were made 

 by the children and placed in the parks, with the 

 cooperation of the city government. 



