402 Bird - Lore 



and tourists. Strong efforts will be made for a general revision and improve- 

 ment of the game laws at the legislative session next spring, and the Society 

 is working harmoniously with the better class of sportsmen of the state for 

 the purpose. The Wild Life League, recently organized in Lee County, is 

 making an effort to unite the conservative sportsmen of the state to stop the 

 senseless murder of wild life that has been. practically unchecked during the 

 past six years, owing to inadequate means of enforcing the game laws. The 

 Society has been fortunate in recently obtaining several municipal bird sanc- 

 tuaries, which now number eight in the state. Also, through the efforts of the 

 Society, the protection of nesting water-birds on the keys at Pass-a-grille has 

 been made effective. Reports from the nesting-grounds of Herons and other 

 water-birds in Lee County are very encouraging, and bird-life in the vicinity of 

 Fort Meyers seems to have greatly increased during the year. The Society 

 has begun an active campaign in the public schools which will be continued 

 during the fall and winter by our new Field Secretary, Mrs. Byrd Spilman 

 Dewey. — W. Scott Way, Secretary. 



Illinois. — The activities of the Illinois Audubon Society for the year 

 1920 have been of a very modest character, but have been quite encouraging 

 in that there have been new ideas brought into our plans that we hope will 

 greatly enlarge the influence of the Society and bring it into closer touch with 

 the entire state of Illinois, as well as the adjoining states of Indiana, Iowa, 

 and Michigan. 



March 20 and 27, well-attended lectures were given by Harry C. Oberholser 

 and William L. Finley. The lectures have become a very welcome feature of 

 each year's work, and the plans for 192 1 for an open meeting of the member- 

 ship to be given in early March, followed by three paid lectures, will be an- 

 nounced early in the year. 



A zonal map of Illinois, dividing it into north, central and southern 

 divisions, and having attached a list of birds to be found nesting in each division 

 will soon be ready for distribution. The map is being prepared under the super- 

 vision of a well-known ornithologist and will be a valuable addition to the data 

 for the state. 



A definite plan is under way to have representatives of local bird organiza- 

 tions meet in some convenient city centrally located for a discussion of bird- 

 conservation and education, such group meetings to be held in different sections 

 of t lie state, the object being to have local secretaries appointed who shall report 

 the activities of the different clubs to the state organization. 



Miss Catherine A. Mitchell has been elected Secretary, taking the position 

 vacated by the removal of Roy M. Langdon to the Pacific Coast. — Orpheus 

 M. SCHANTZ, President. 



