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was also passed which prevents the biu-nhig or setting tire to tules in the swamps 

 where Ducks, Geese and other birds are accustomed to nest. With these improve- 

 ments, we think our laws are not siurpassed by any state in the Union. 



There seems to be little complaint of shooting on the reservations, the work 

 accomplished by the wardens being very satisfactory. Mr. Alva Lewis, the warden 

 on Klamath Reserve, by arresting the Mayor of Merrill and tliree other leading 

 citizens, for shooting Ducks on the Reserve, taught hunters throughout that 

 locality to give more heed to the observance of game laws. 



This Society has sent S200 to the National Association, to assist in caring 

 for the Oregon Reservations. It is our intention, later in the season, to use another 

 hundred for the purchase of an extra launch for use of the warden on Malheur 

 Lake. 



Early in the spring, letters were sent to the milliners of the state, warning 

 them that the laws protecting native birds were to be enforced, and that no plu- 

 mage of these birds could be sold. No regard was paid to the letters, and we caused 

 the arrest of ten of the leading milliners of Portland. Two of the ten repeated the 

 offense, and were again arrested. They all pleaded guilty and were fined, the 

 fees amounting to $140. These arrests related especially to the sale of aigrettes, 

 and, while we have reason to think that there are some aigrettes sold, they are 

 sold under cover and promise of secrecy. In the main, the sale of these plumes 

 has been stopped, and a salutary lesson taught, by the publicity given through 

 papers and otherwise. We have in the past month become incorporated under 

 the laws of Oregon. We expect this year to push our work along the lines open 

 to us, realizing that ''precept upon precept, here a little and there a httle, " when 

 taken together, makes a goodly sum. — E. J. Welty, M.D., Corresponding Sec- 

 retary. 



Pennsylvania. — The work of the Societ}- during the past year has been more 

 in the schools than ever before, and therefore encouraging. A number of teachers 

 have taken up the work in a most enthusiastic and intelligent way, with most 

 satisfactory results among their pupils. 



A number of Audubon Clubs through the state have been busy doing field 

 work during the spring and summer, after careful preparatory winter work 

 in the museum collections. Our club made a special study of the songs of the 

 Thrushes, and, by patience and hard work, gained a remarkably good idea of 

 the identity of this puzzling family of singers by their notes alone. 



A step backward in legislation has to be reported, for, in spite of opposition 

 from the Audubon Society and other bird-lovers, the Bald Eagle, Osprey, Heron^ 

 Bittern, Kingfisher and Shrike have been taken off the protected list. To some- 

 what compensate for this error, however, we have a law which forbids " unnat- 

 uralized foreign-born residents of the state to hunt or own shotguns or rifles. '^ 

 The traveling libraries took their usual place in the work of the year, and 

 several additions were made to their 'st.— Elizabeth W. Fisher, Secretary. 



