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Bird- Lore 



Three Rivers, Ypsilanti and Holland report bird-walks, exhibits, bird-house 

 building contests, Audubon Day programs and other activities. The Bird Con- 

 servation Week at Holland was the most educational of all, since a splendid 

 exhibit of mounted birds (grouped according to their uses), pictures, books^ 



VIEW OF PORTION OF EXHIBIT AT MID-WINTER BIRD RALLY HELD IN THE 

 HOME TOWN OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE MICHIGAN AUDUBON SOCIETY. DISPLAY 

 ARRANGED BY THE SCHOOL CHILDREN. 



magazines, charts, houses, cat-guards, and feeding and bathing devices, in a 

 downtown store building, was open the entire week, with efficient guides in 

 charge. E. H. Sargent and Mrs. Edith C. Munger visited every school, 

 giving talks on bird-protection and stereopticon lectures in the evenings. 



Since Michigan was the first state to form a Wild Life Conservation Depart- 

 ment in its Women's Committee, Council of National Defense organization, 

 and our President was made its Chairman, much publicity is afforded the 

 Audubon work through this channel. 



What the next year may demand of us we know not, but we do know that 

 our part in helping to add to the food-supply of the world will be through con- 

 serving bird-life as we have never done before. — (Miss) Gertrude Reading, 

 Secretary. 



Nebraska Audubon Society. — The Society has had a most satisfactory 

 year, with several achievements to our credit. We were successful in getting 



