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'Travels in Bird-Land,' and 'Protecting and Attracting Wild Birds about the 

 Home,' by Clinton G. Abbott; and 'Our Animal Allies in the World War,' 

 by Ernest Harold Baynes. The Club also arranged for a matinee lecture for 

 the school children of Englewood by Mr. Baynes, which was of great interest. 



To further awaken the interest of the community in birds, a public exhibition 

 of feeding-devices and a later exhibition of nesting-boxes are planned. The 

 Club has active Committees on Publicity, Protection, and Field-Study. The 

 membership is increasing. The Treasurer's report shows net assets of S488, as 

 of September 30, 192 1. — (Miss) Amy C. Parkhiirst, Secretary. 



ForestHills Gardens (N.Y.J Audubon Society. — Our seventh annual report , 

 June 8, 1920, to June 8, 192 1, shows plenty of good work done in an educational 

 way for both Juniors and seniors. Two first-rate free lectures were given by 

 T. Gilbert Pearson and Louis Agassiz Fuertes, and Mrs. Mary S. Sage of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies was loaned to the Gardens Society 

 by the Bird Club of Long Island to speak to the children in the Forest Hills 

 schools. The Society has always given the Gardens the best it could find in the 

 way of lecturers. It believes that it is not enough merely to instruct children 

 in the hope that a future generation will do the things that we ought to do. 



The routine work of the Society, such as protection and winter feeding, 

 has gone on as usual. Aside from the intensive work, the Society has before 

 it the big ideal of making Long Island ' A singing island. ' With this aim in view, 

 its representatives met the representatives of the Bird Club of Long Island and 

 took the first steps towards bringing about a definite program for making the 

 cemeteries, parks, country clubs, and golf clubs of Long Island into a chain of 

 bird reservations extending the length of the Island. It was decided that the 

 Gardens Society should work within the city limits and the Bird Club of Long 

 Island over the remainder of the Island, and that the method of approach to 

 the coimtry clubs and golf clubs should be preferably a direct personal request 

 to the ofl&cers of the club by a member of either the Gardens Society or the 

 Bird Club, that at a regular meeting each Club adopt the following resolution 

 and carry out the action it implies, setting out in detail what this would mean. 



"Resolution: It is recommended that the Golf Club or Country Club, 



cooperate with the Forest Hills Gardens Audubon Society and the Bird Club of 

 Long Island in taking such measures for the protection of birds as will include 

 the planting for shelter and winter feeding, bird-pools or water-hazards, the 

 placing of nesting-boxes on the grounds, and posting the property with suffi- 

 ciently emphatic signs." 



A resolution on paper is a long way from the realization of anything, but 

 back of this effort on the part of the two organizations are the leadership and 

 experience of Mrs. Townsend, the president of the Bird Club of Long Island, 

 and the belief of the Gardens Society that the plan will succeed. — (Miss) 

 Makv Eastwood Knevels, Secretary. 



