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Bird - Lore 



-H'jUSES— SCHOOLBOY AT WORK 

 Photograph by H. T. Bohlman 



of bird life. Two contests for prizes are being carried on now in this county 

 and Yamhill Coiintv for the best written accounts of the observations made."' 



Good Work in a Pennsylvania School 



THE annual public meeting of the Audubon Society of the Darlington 

 Seminar}- was held Saturday evening. ^Nlrs. Bye opened the program 

 with an account of the objects of this Society, and read a letter received 

 from \Vm. Butcher, President of the National Association, New York, acknow- 

 ledging the receipt of the fee, which entitles the school to sustaining member- 

 ship, also $5 for a subscription to Bird-Lore, a dehghtful work on omitholog}'. 

 Mrs. Ball read an instructive paper on "The Background of Ornithology.' 

 Mrs. Bye then made an earnest appeal to ever\- woman especiall}- to con- 



