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FIELD AGENTS 



The Field Agents heretofore employed of recent years have been continued. 

 Through lectures, published articles, correspondence, and personal work, this 

 body of men and women are annually performing services of great value to 

 the cause of wild-life protection. 



E. H. Forbush, Field Agent for New England, is one of the busiest men in 

 Massachusetts, and his monthly communications on bird-migration and bird- 

 protection are matters of household discussion in that state. His public lectures 

 have continued with great frequency the past year. 



Among the Field Agents' reports that will be heard today, the one from 

 Winthrop Packard will show how diversified a man's work may be when 

 engaged in Audubon Society undertakings. His office and field duties are 

 numerous and have been splendidly discharged. 



William L. Finley, of Portland, Ore., lecturer and agent for the Pacific 

 Coast States, has been leading the fight made by the Oregon Audubon Society 

 and the National Association to secure the passage by referendum of a bill 

 which it is hoped will insure the perpetuity of Malheur Lake as a United States 

 Bird Reservation. Mr. Finley made a most successful lecture trip through the 

 eastern states the past winter, and during the summer he and Mrs. Finley have 

 been engaged in making additional moving pictures. They were with your 

 Secretary for a time on the coast of Texas in May, from which point they left 

 to continue their field-work in the Yellowstone Park. 



Mrs. Mary S. Sage, who returned to the field staff of the Association in 

 October, 1919, has been engaged most of the year in lecture and organization 

 work on Long Island, where her efforts are made possible by the cooperative 

 arrangement existing between the Long Island Bird Club and the National 

 Association. 



Herbert K. Job, in charge of the Department of Applied Ornithology, has 

 conducted another successful session of his Summer School of Bird Study at 

 Amston, Conn. Hundreds of visitors continue to flock to the Association's 

 Experimental Farm at this point. Wild-fowl, Ring-necked Pheasants, and other 

 birds being propagated there have had a successful season. The game-birds 

 are in direct charge of Keeper Calvin McPhail and under the general direction 

 of Mr. Job. 



Arthur H. Norton, of Portland, Maine, reports much correspondence 

 and other work occasioned by the rapidly growing interest in bird-protection 

 in Maine. As a guest of the State Game Commission, he was able to make 

 an informing and very valuable trip of inspection to many of our guarded 

 bird colonies along the coast of his state. 



Miss Frances A. Hurd has spent the greater part of her time this year in 

 Connecticut where she has been engaged chiefly in lecturing in schools, organiz- 

 ing Junior Audubon Classes, and conducting other educational activities. 



