'" y'ojt cannot -,ctth a scalpri Jimi Ihr port's soul, 

 I^ or yet the wild bird's sont; ." 



Edited by Mrs. MAiiKt. Osgood Wrigm r ( Piesiik'iit of the Audiilion Society of the Stale of 

 Connecticut), I'aiifield, Conn., to whom all coinimiiiicalions rclalini; to tlie work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., desijjned 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. Batcheldkr, Manchester. 



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



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr.. 1S7 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 Sand ford ave., Plainfield, N.J. 



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



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten. 3033 P street, Washinjjton. 



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



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



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



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool. Maitland. 



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



Indiana ^^ • ^^ • Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



lQ,^a , Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



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



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Pitnam, 125 In.e;lehart street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner. Ripley. 



Wyoming Mrs. John A. Riner, Cheyeinie. 



California Mrs. George S. Gav, Redlands. 



Song Bird Reservations 



When the progress of civilization, via the 

 demands of an agricultural and manufac- 

 turing people, encroached upon and finally 

 overran the hunting grounds of the North 

 American Indian, tracts of land were re- 

 served for him where he might live partly 

 by his own industry and partly by bestowed 

 rations, this method being only successful 

 in a degree, owing to the uneconomic na- 

 ture of the individual so aided. 



Now that the same civilization is reducing 

 the woodlands and wild tracts that for ages 

 have been the birds" hunting grounds, 

 should not they too be provided with suit- 

 able reservations, where the food natural to 

 such places shall be sufficiently supple- 

 mented and the supply placed beyond the 

 vicissitudes of weather, etc.? For, unlike 

 the roving Indian, the bird is as great an 

 encourager of the agriculture that often de- 



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prives it of its time-honored haunts, as the 

 farmer who sows the seed. 



Everything that is said in the following 

 paper regarding the practicability of com- 

 bining farms in great preserves for game 

 birds can be even more easily accomplished 

 for Song Bird Reservations, it being gen- 

 erally conceded that the day has passed 

 when it is enough to satisfy the demands 

 for bird protection by simply ceasing to 

 kill. 



Not only may owners of large estates 

 arrange suitable winter shelter for resident 

 birds and establish feeding places where 

 daily rations are distributed, but small land 

 owners may pledge themselves, combine, 

 and by systematic arrangement convert 

 whole s(juares in suburban towns into these 

 reservations, appointing one member of the 

 union as "food agent" for a specified time, 

 so that there may be no forgetting, for that 

 "every one's business is nobody's business" 



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