" Vou caniioi 7filh a scalpel find the poet' 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), Fairfield, 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. Lockwood, 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 Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



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 W'. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 20S West street, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Milwaukee. 



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



Wyoming Mrs, N. R. Davis, Cheyeinie. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Encouraging Signs 



Bird protection is daily receiving fresh 

 impetus and that of the most valtiable kind. 

 It seems to be thoroughly understood that 

 feather wearing is a custom to be con- 

 demned, and one only to be stamped out 

 by good laws and practical education in the 

 matter of the value of bird-life and its con- 

 nection with general natural history, so that 

 we hear less of the millinery side of the 

 question, and the Audubon movement is 

 reaching a higher plane. At the present 

 time all the Atlantic states from Maine to 

 Florida are linked by the A. O. U. law 

 or its equivalent, and the experiment of 

 sending out traveling lecture libraries of 

 birds and nature books has been so suc- 

 cessful in Connecticut that other states are 

 following suit. 



The future would be rosy, indeed, but 

 for one cloud on the horizon, and that is 



the difficulty of enforcing these laws that are 

 our battle flags. 



The proper local enforcement of bird 

 laws is indeed a difficult task, requiring 

 moral courage, tact, and a clear head; also 

 the reporting of offenders should be made by 

 a legalized official, who can act without 

 the stigma of personality that must always 

 be felt when we complain of the law 

 breaking of our neighbors. If the deputy 

 sheriffs of each county could be appointed 

 as bird wardens, warning could be adminis- 

 tered and the incorrigible prosecuted in a 

 purely impersonal manner. 



It has also been suggested that in order 

 to make the laws effective in many places 

 they should be posted in Hungarian and 

 Italian, for the latter race come to us with 

 particularly lax ideas about bird killing. 



Undoubtedly the country is thoroughly 

 aroused : the task now before us is to hold 



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