3Q2 Bird - Lore 



Scranton (Pa.) Bird Club. — This Club, during its sixth year, proved indeed 

 this vicinity's growing interest in bird -study, bird -protection, and general 

 bird-lore. A September out-of-doors meeting, with an excellent opportunity 

 for bird observation, following an interesting program, and an Arbor Day sale 

 of perennials comprised the fall work. The winter's special efforts were many. 

 Among them, the 'Birds' Christmas Tree,' in Nay Aug Park, conducted by 

 Miss Helen Hay's Junior Club members, from the Audubon School, under the 

 direction of Miss Elizabeth Rice, the Christmas Day Census, the turning of 

 thirty-three used kindergarten Christmas trees into bird-feeding stations, the 

 contributing to the Yellowstone Park Fund, the planning, in connection with 

 the Boy Scouts, for Norman McClintock's motion-picture lecture on 'Wild 

 Birds and Their Habits, ' and the finishing of the first year's census. 



In February, the census list was completed and beautifully prepared copies, 

 appropriately framed, were presented to the Everhart Museum and to the 

 public library. These have been conspicuously placed and are of great reference 

 value. In the spring there was the annual bird-house competition, the giving, 

 by the President, Mrs. Francis Hopkinson Coffin and the Vice-Presidents, 

 Rev. L. R. Foster and Prof. R. N. Davis, of several helpful talks, in the interest 

 of bird-study, to organizations in and near the city, the bird-naming contests 

 for Girl and Boy Scouts, the Arbor Day meeting, the Merit Badge E.xami- 

 nation, conducted by our President, Mrs. Coffin, Mrs. J. T. Angwin, and Prof. 

 R. N. Davis, when badges were recommended for ten girls and two boys, and 

 the climax of the spring's work, the bird-study walks conducted from April 25 

 to May 26. 



Amid more or less uncertainty the plan for 6.30 ,v. m. walks was announced — 

 those in charge hardly daring to believe that more than the most ardent bird- 

 students would respond. It was most gratifying, therefore, to the group 

 leaders to find the list of people and the list of birds growing with each morning's 

 effort until the great climax of the fourth week when eighty-one people were 

 able to record 63 birds, 23 of these being new arrivals. Club activities end 

 with the June meeting, but activities in behalf of the birds never cease, as 

 shown by the active interest of William Anneman, game warden, who has 

 never failed to cooperate with the Bird Club in following uj) infringements of 

 the law and seeing that those guilty are properly punished. — (^Miss) Ele.wor 

 P. Jones, Secretary. 



Seattle (Wash.) Audubon Society. The work of the Society for the past 

 year has been very similar to that of the previous year. We have continued the 

 Junior Audubon Societies in the branch libraries and responded to many calls 

 for bird lectures in the public schools. Boy Scouts' meetings and women's 

 clubs in the city. Regular monthly meetings have been held in the Chamber 

 of Commerce for the general ])ul)lic. Mr. S. F. Rathbun and other speakers 

 have been very generous in giving us their time on these occasions. Field- 



