" Voii cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird's sons'." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this depart- 

 ment should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



■With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



-, rr „^v,;r^ Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



New Hampshire 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr.. 187 Bowen street. Providence. 



C nnecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



New Jersey..... Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford Ave., Plainfield, N.J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Coiumbia ' . .^ ! Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delainore place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. 



South Carolina.'.'.'.'.'....'........ l^'SS S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida Mrs. C. F. Dommerich, Maitland. 



Qjjjij Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern Ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana Amos W. Butler, State House, Indianapolis. 



Tii!„„,v Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Illinois ,, ^ „ „ ^, , , 



tq^^ Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



■Wisconsin.... Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee M rs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



fexas Miss Cecile Sei.xas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Bird Protection and the Merchant 

 Milliners 



This year is full of significance in 

 matters relating to bird protection, and 

 a nev/ impulse seems sweeping over the 

 country regarding the entire matter. 

 Moreover, the increased interest is trace- 

 able to perfectly sound and reasonable 

 thinking, brought about by the increase 

 of nature-study and the systematic circu- 

 lation of the accepted and indisputable 

 facts concerning the relations between 

 birds and agriculture, as well as the 

 attention attracted by protective legis- 

 lation. 



To bear out this latter statement, I 

 would ask every officer of an Audubon 

 Society to read Bulletin No. 12 of the 

 U. S. Department of Agriculture, Divi- 

 sion of Biological Survey, entitled 'Legis- 

 lation for the Protection of Birds Other 



than Game Birds.' This pamphlet of 

 nearly one hundred pages, written by 

 T. S Palmer under the direction of Dr. 

 Merriam, gives all existing laws, so that 

 it may be seen at a glance in what States, 

 or counties of a given State, bird laws 

 are either absent, defective, or efficient. 

 A thorough reading of this summary is 

 sure to bring about much State legislation 

 as well as lead to national cohesion, 

 for, as the introduction says, 'The pro- 

 tection of birds is a national, not a local, 

 question.' 



The history of legislative protection is 

 briefly given, beginning in 1791, when 

 New York enacted a law protecting Heath 

 Hens, and ending with the text of the Lacey 

 Bill, which became a law in May last. 

 This bill gives wide discretionary powers 

 to the Department of Agriculture, and 

 is of the greatest importance. 



Another matter, formulated, doubtless, 



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