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Bird- Lore 



Further to promote the new Experiment Station work, Mr. Charles M. 

 Ams, the owner of the tract, has generously put at the disposal of the Associa- 

 tion a comfortable two-story residence, furnished throughout, now known as 

 the 'Audubon House.' Collections of birds and of ornithological literature, 

 including the publications of this Association, have been installed, and the 

 house has been kept open the past summer as headquarters of the National 

 Association, where visitors have been welcomed, given opportunity for study, 

 and thence shown the practical work carried out on the 3-square-mile tract. 



In order to make it possible for visitors to remain at Amston to study and 



SCALED QUAIL IN BREEDING-PEN ON NATIONAL ASSOCIATION'S BIRD SANCTUARY 

 AND EXPERIMENT STATION, AMSTON, CONN. 

 Photograph by H. K. Job. 



enjoy the bird-life, there having been no local hostelry, Mr. Ams has enlarged 

 and renovated a former boarding-house, at a cost of $7,000, and had the new 

 enterprise opened last August as Amston Inn, with plain furnishings, good food, 

 and moderate prices. Bird-loving visitors and excursions of Bird Clubs have 

 already utilized it. 



From this Experiment Station, as well as from other sources, a large amount 

 of valuable data is being gathered for use in demonstration work, in corres- 

 pondence with inquirers, and for publications of the Association or through 

 other channels. Much of this is given out through various magazine and news- 

 paper articles, which helps to reach and interest a larger pubHc. During the 



