VL\)t 3^uDubon Societies 



" You cannot -with a scalpel Jimi thf pot't's soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Faiifield, Conn., to whom all communications relating; to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockvvood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland. 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Devvhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delainore place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida 



Ohio. Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana. W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mks. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin. Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee............................... Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlaiids. 



Notes Hut it is not enough merely to enact laws; 



The work of a far-seeing Connecticut t'"^y ^"^1 be enforced and doubtful points 



gentleman, Mr. E. Knight Sperry, in secur- must be settled by the courts. The bird 



ing the co6peration of farmers in allowing 'aws of the United States, usually called 



their lands to be. without interference to game laws, are of two kinds (a) State or 



cultivation, banded in retreats where, in 'ocal laws and {h) Federal laws, 



addition to protection, game birds may find State laws prescribe the kinds of birds 



food in the hungry season, has suggested a "'I'^-h ^^Y or may not be killed, the 



work on similar li'iu^ tl,a. inav W done for time and manner in which they may be 



non-game aiul song birds and at the same '^ken, and the purpose for which they may 



time give an adde.l held of labor and in- l'^' ^-apUired. Thus the Illinois game law 



terest to all protectionists. ^I^»i"'^^ S^me birds and prohibits the killing 



This topic will be fuliv discussed in the "f of'i" ^irds at any time. In providing for 



next issue of HiRO-LoRK. Pame it fixes a definite season for shooting 



Acting on a suggestion made in this de- M":'il and ducks, but forbids the killing of 

 partment in December, 1899. Dr. T. S. ''"^^s at any season from a sail boat, with 

 Palmer has kindly sent Bird-I.orc the a swivel gun, or after sunset; furthermore 

 following admirable statement of the legal 't declares that it shall be unlawful to cap- 

 status of birds. -M. (). \V. "'re 'U'ail i" tlie State for sale, or to ship 



to other States except under license. In all 



Some Fundamental Principles of Bird "'e'*'- '"alters the State is supreme and 



Laws violations of its laws arc tried in the State 



iiv I', s. I'aimkh courts. 



A(ki|uatc laws necessarily form the The federal law, coimiionlv known a* 



fouiiilaiion of effective bird protection. the I.acev .\ci. or the .Act of Ma\ JS. 



