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group of the state's best women took the organizer through the driving rain 

 of an equinoctial storm, over slippery unsteady plank roads, to the schools 

 in the logging-camps of the Gray's Harbor region. When the schools of Moclips 

 and Pacific, on the very western rim of the continent, pledged themselves to 

 work for bird welfare, it seemed somehow a sacred, sacrificial thing that these 

 boys and girls, so remote from Audubon headquarters, should unite themselves 

 as a final link in one of its chains for the protection of wild life. 



FEEDING FRIENDLY FINCHES. 

 Photographed at Aberdeen, Washington, by Mrs. Granville R. Pike. 



Prominently among our bird mercies we reckon the fact that our Governor, 

 our State Superintendent of Schools, and our State Game Warden have each 

 given their personal and official encouragement to the cause of the birds and 

 have aided in the making of bird-exhibits which have formed an important 

 part of our educational activity this year. 



In addition, all the educational forces of the state are turning their attention, 

 in increased measure, to bird-conservation. Our higher institutions of learning 

 are putting considerable emphasis on bird-study, and our public schools are 

 giving more time to this phase of nature instruction than formerly. Seattle 

 had a notable Bird Day this year, and many other schools observed the day 

 worthily. 



Where, heretofore, the solitary bird-student pursued his lonely way, there 



