EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON. Secretary 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City 



William Dutcher, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, Firsl Vice-President T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary 

 F. A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan D wight, Jr., Treasurer 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may be- 

 come a member, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection o 

 Wild Birds and Animals: 



$5.00 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 Sioo.oo paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000.00 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000.00 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000.00 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Robin Protection 



The Robin is now on the list of pro- 

 tected birds in the state of Virginia. On 

 March i, 191 2, Governor William Hodges 

 Mann signed a bill which had just passed 

 the Legislature, making it a misdemeanor, 

 punishable by a fine of $5, to kill a Robin 

 under any circumstances in the state of 

 Virginia. Heretofore, this bird has been 

 one of those species which it has been 

 legal to shoot for game. 



This recent action was brought about 

 as a result of a campaign which this 

 Association has waged in the state over a 

 period of nearly two years, in which it 

 has had the assistance and co-operation 

 of the State .\udubon Society under the 

 leadership of ]\Irs. E. H. Harris, President. 



The enactment of this measure has been 

 a very live subject in Virginia during the 

 past winter, and no less than 10,000 

 school children responded to our appeal 

 for petitions to the Legislature, asking 

 that body to enact the law. In fact, this 

 petition was presented to the Virginia 

 Senate by a battalion of children from 

 the schools of Richmond. 



That the agitation of the subject by 

 the Audubon workers has been exceed- 

 ingly effective was evidenced by the fact 

 that the bill passed both branches of the 

 Legislature by a very large majority, and it 

 is to be hoped that this law w'ill never be re- 

 pealed or receive any harmful amendments. 



Much credit is due to Miss Katharine 



H. Stuart, of Alexandria, who, as field 

 agent of this Association and school sec- 

 retary of the Virginia State Audubon 

 Society, has labored with untiring energy 

 to secure the desired result. — T. G. P. 



Birds and the Recent Snowstorm 



The past winter has been an unusually 

 severe one on the wild bird life of the 

 northern United States, because of the 

 protracted period of snow and sleet which, 

 to a large extent, covered their natural food. 



The public press has contained many 

 accounts of the suffering of birds in vari- 

 ous parts of the country. 



Near Penn Yan, New York, where the 

 ice on the lake long remained frozen, 

 large numbers of Canvasback Ducks 

 became so weak that they either starved 

 or in a weakened condition were attacked 

 and eaten alive by Crows and Gulls. At 

 Fairport, large flocks of Pheasants came 

 to the barnyards and fed with the do- 

 mestic fowls. 



In Virginia, Meadowlarks and Bob- 

 whites are reported to have- sustained 

 much loss, whole covies of the latter 

 having been frozen, in many communities. 



In Pennsylvania, Dr. Joseph Kalbfus, 

 Secretary of the State Game Commission, 

 reports the death, by weather, of thou- 

 sands of Wild Ducks and other water- 

 fowl on the lower reaches of the Delaware. 



Bob-whites and Prairie Chickens suf- 

 fered so severelv in Iowa that the Waterloo 



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