388 Bird - Lore 



Summer lectures were given as usual at both boys' and girls' camps, in- 

 cluding the Scouts. Work in cooperation with the Dominion Parks Commis- 

 sion continues. The honorary game wardens send in reports from time to 

 time. The appointment of a Federal game warden for Quebec has given an 

 added impetus to this work. The Society is pleased to record a great increase 

 in the various species of birds throughout the Province owdng to the great 

 improvement in wild-life conditions due to the Migratory Bird Convention 

 Act. — (Mrs.) W. E. L. Dyer, Honorary Corresponding Secretary. 



Rhinebeck (N. Y.) Bird Club. — The Club at present has the following 

 membership: Life, lo; Sustaining, 13; Active, 76; Associate, 18; Junior, 37g. 

 The Junior list is particularly gratifying, as it is by far the largest since the 

 founding of the Club and represents Junior Audubon Classes in every one of 

 the twelve schools in the township. 



Only one public lecture has been given this year, for which we are indebted 

 to Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy, all available funds having been used in the 

 pubhcation of a year-book to cover the years 1918, 1919, 1920. This is a 40- 

 page pamphlet containing articles and photographs by members and a preUm- 

 inary Hst of the birds of Dutchess County, briefly annotated and enumerating 

 229 species. — Maunsell S. Crosby, President. 



Rockaway (N. Y.) Bird Club. — The Club has held monthly meetings except 

 in the summer. The November meeting consisted of an exhibit of nearly all 

 the well-known books on American birds which are suitable for Christmas 

 gifts. These were reviewed briefly and lists of the books, giving publisher, 

 price, etc., were distributed to all members and printed in the local papers. 

 There was also an exhibit of these books in the local library. The Club worked 

 for the prevention of the passage of the Smith bill for granting to private 

 parties irrigation privileges in the Yellowstone National Park. Mr. Charles 

 Hewlett lectured on the subject at the March meeting, using stereopticon 

 views borrowed from the American Museum of Natural History. Prizes were 

 given by the Club to members of the Junior Societies for the best report on the 

 spring migrants of the vicinity. The prizes offered were a subscription to 

 Bird-Lore, a folder containing the set of colored plates illustrating the ' Birds 

 of New York, ' and any one of the * Pocket Nature Guide ' series. 



Miss Broomall's Junior Audubon Society makes a feature of its 'Book of 

 Nature, ' and several numbers were prepared during the year. This consists of 

 written accounts of the personal observations of the class, anecdotes, stories, 

 etc., as well as crayon, water-color, and j^en drawings by the more artistic 

 members of the class. In January, Miss Broomall discovered the haunt of a 

 Saw-whet Owl and members of both the adult and juvenile bird clubs made 

 frequent visits to him during the two weeks he remained in the vicinity. He 

 obligingly posed for his photograph on numerous occasions. Our teacher- 



