Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs ,^69 



The attendance runs from ten to thirty, averaging about twelve members and 

 six guests. During the yearly cycle some 140 different species are encountered 

 in highly diversified habitats — fields, gardens, chaparral, coniferous and decid- 

 uous forests, artificial lakes, tidal marshes and flats, open ocean and land- 

 locked bay. Only twice in fifty-four consecutive months has rain interfered 

 with the trip. The exceptionally abundant rains of the winter of 1920-2 1 

 effected a marked readjustment of the bird population throughout our district, 

 not only among the visitants, l)ul as well with the resident species, and we are 

 all looking forward with interest to de\'elopments of the coming season. 



The joint committee of the Cooper Ornithological Club and this Association 

 has worked perseveringly with the oil com[)anies to the end that all those opera- 

 ating tankers have undertaken to discharge their water ballast into receiving 

 ponds at their loading points around San Francisco Bay, thus obviating the 

 pollution of the ocean surface and the needless slaughter of multitudes of water 

 birds. We are justified in stating that a material betterment of conditions has 

 been effected. The Association has continued the publication of its monthly 

 bulletin. The Gull, carrying notices and reports of its activities and other data 

 pertinent thereto. 



Junior work, under the immediate auspices of the Association, has languished 

 for lack of leaders, a deficiency which we share with every other organization 

 looking to the development of our boys and girls. It is upon our school teachers 

 that we are depending for direction of the minds of children to consideration of 

 the sentimental and economic relations of our feathered friends to man, and for 

 the spread of bird-lore. Our teachers furnish a large proportion of the active 

 membership of the Association and they are responding finely, as ever, to this 

 need. — A. S. Kibbie, President. 



Audubon Club of Norristown (Pa.). — The Club has held four evening meet- 

 ings during the year at the Regar Museum of Natural History. On September 2, 

 1920, Edward Avis gave a very delightful lecture recital, 'Bird-land,' imitating 

 the birds by whistling and also reproducing their notes on his violin. December 

 2, Ernest Harold Baynes gave a very interesting lecture on 'Birds in Their 

 Nesting Season,' illustrating his talk with beautiful lantern-slides. One of the 

 best lectures ever given here was that of Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, Assistant Curator, 

 American Museum of Natural History, on March 3, 192 1. He spoke on 

 'John Burroughs and His Favorite Haunts,' and illustrated the lecture with 

 extraordinary motion pictures and beautiful lantern-slides, giving intimate 

 personal glimpse of this beloved naturalist who so shortly afterward passed on. 



Another address, remembered with delight, was the one given by T. Gilbert 

 Pearson on June 3, 1921. He spoke in a very interesting way of his travels 

 along the coast from Nova Scotia to Key West, following the flight of the birds 

 as they migrate from one extreme to the other and showing just what is being 

 done to protect them. Motion pictures of exceptional educational value have 



