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Irom St. Louis and on the presenceof the Chuck-wills-widow in St. Louis County. 

 Successful prosecution of alien hunters for shooting protected birds in St. Louis 

 County received support from the Club and obtained wide publicity in the 

 state. Legislative matters (Smith of Idaho bill, Missouri Wild Life Conservation 

 bill, ordinances on local park regulations) occupied a large part of the work of 

 the Executive Committee. 



Through the kindness of Miss Eunice Smith, the Bird Club and its guests 

 were entertained by the lecture on the buffalo by E. H. Baynes. In the St. 

 Louis Bird Sanctuary there has been erected a bird-fountain in memory of 

 Mrs. Blanche Turner White, late secretary of the Club. This, which was a 

 a gift to the city by the Club and many friends, was dedicated in a public 

 ceremony May 3, 192 1. It is a weathered granite boulder from Iron County, 

 Mo. — Mrs. White's home. A rough basin has been cut out, water connection 

 made, and an inscri])ti()n carved on one side. A special keeper for the sanctuary 

 was appointed at the beginning of the summer. — (Miss) Jen'nie F. Chase, 

 Secretary. 



St. Petersburg (Fla.) Audubon Society. — After twelve years of enthusiastic, 

 intelligent bird-protective work, our Society has begun to reap its reward. 

 This year has seen the completion of a chain of bird sanctuaries throughout 

 our whole county (peerless Pinellas), probably the first of its kind in the United 

 States. These sanctuaries were created by municij^al action where cities and 

 towns were incoiporated, or by women's clubs or parent-teacher associations 

 where the villages were remote, and the conservation of bird-life has reached 

 such a high pinnacle that numerous requests come for membership cards and 

 for instruction for method in making privately owned land sanctuaries. Sanc- 

 tuary signs, with the birds in their habitats and the penalty for violations 

 painted on them, have been placed to mark all of the sanctuaries in this long 

 chain in Pinellas County. 



The Audubon Society has carried on the Junior Audubon work in the schools 

 most successfully through the Secretary, Mrs. S. E. Barton, and the Treasurer, 

 Mrs. M. G. Foster, over a thousand members having been enrolled last year. 



Three prizes are given each year. The first is $5 in gold to the boy or girl 

 who so builds a bird-house that it will attract nesting birds and within which a 

 family is raised. The second is a field-glass for the best list of birds made in a 

 single hike. The third is a bird-book for the best paper on the value of bird- 

 protection. These prizes have been in vogue so long that the first winners have 

 children now who will soon be old enough to compete. The Audubon tield and 

 water excursions are always so po])ular that a long list is kept of those waiting 

 for a place on same. This has done much to create public sentiment for bird- 

 protection. But the crowning honor came on June 25, 192 1, when President 

 Harding signed Order No. 3052, which added certain keys to Indian Key 

 Reservation, through the recommendations of the St. Petersburg Society to 



