The Audubon Societies 



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BIRD-BOXES BUILT AND SOLD FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE WAR-SUFFERERS 

 Photographed by W. \\'. Grant 



At the recent annual meeting of the 

 Ohio State Audubon Society, Miss Ger- 

 trude Harvey reported that twenty-five 

 kinds of birds nested every year in her 

 garden. 



The State Audubon Society of Cali- 

 fornia has designed a handsome seal, 

 depicting a Phainopepla in a pepper tree. 

 It is to be printed on a 'sticker' and used 

 as has become a custom with the Red 

 Cross seals at Christmas. 



An autumn meeting of the energetic 

 bird club of Saratoga Springs, New York, 

 was entertained by a novel 'stunt' in the 

 program. The hall was darkened, and the 

 Secretary, Miss Kate McCloskey, told 

 the progress of a June day in the bird- 

 world. As she proceeded from hour to 

 hour, calls of the various birds singing 

 during the day were given by a group of 

 boys stationed in different parts of the 

 auditorium — songs of the Robin, Whip- 

 poor-will, Thrush, Bob-white, White- 

 throated Sparrow and other familiar 

 acquaintances. In addition to this, pic- 

 tures of birds were thrown on the screen, 

 and phonograph records of their songs 



given simultaneously. Such programs are 

 both instructive to the audience and help- 

 ful to a society. 



More Alien Depredation 



The accompanying photograph repre- 

 sents the contents of an Italian's pocket 

 after his capture at South Norwalk, 

 Connecticut, one Sunday morning last 

 spring. It illustrates what would happen 

 here in the North if it were not for the 

 work of the wardens. To show the per- 

 sistency of the Italians in killing song- 

 birds, I have but to mention one swamp 

 adjoining the farm of an Italian on the 

 edge of a city, where for the fourth year 

 running we have captured an Italian 

 shooting small birds; and three years out 

 of the four the culprit was stopping at the 

 farmer's house, and each year was severely 

 fined. This summer I caught a man with 

 two Juncos and one Goldfinch, showing 

 that nothing is too small for them. Edu- 

 cation is to solve the problem through the 

 children, but enough old ones are among 

 us, and new ones all the time coming, to 



