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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by T. GILBERT PEARSON, President 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances, for dues and contributions, to 



the National Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 Broadway, New York City. 



Telephone, Columbus 7327 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President 

 Theodore S. Palmer, First Vice-President William P. Wharton, Secretary 

 Frederic A. Lucas, Second Vice-President Jonathan Dwicht, Treasurer 



Samuel T. Carter, Jr., Attorney 



Any person, club, school or company in sympathy with the objects of this Association may become 

 a member of it, and all are welcome. 



Classes of Membership in the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild 

 Birds and Animals: 



$5 annually pays for a Sustaining Membership 

 $100 paid at one time constitutes a Life Membership 

 $1,000 constitutes a person a Patron 

 $5,000 constitutes a person a Founder 

 $25,000 constitutes a person a Benefactor 



Form of Bequest: — I do hereby give and bequeath to the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals (Incorporated), of the City of New York. 



ARE YOUR BIRD NEIGHBORS HUNGRY? 



No method has yet been devised for de- 

 termining the extent of the loss of bird-life 

 during extreme cold weather. That many 

 birds are winter-killed is very well known. 

 Most students of bird-life in the northern 

 states and Canada have had the experience 

 of finding dead birds under evergreens, in 

 thickets, by the roadside, and under the 

 edges of out-houses, that have fallen from 

 their perches in bitter winter nights. 



Undoubtedly, it is not so much the cold 

 itself that is responsible for their death as it 

 is the lack of food. When snow covers the 

 earth for many miles in every direction, and 

 especially when sleet cements hard and fast 

 on the trunk and limbs of trees, every pos- 

 sible source of natural food is denied the 

 small wild birds. The temperature of a bird's 

 blood is very high. Its heart beats twice as 

 fast as the human heart, and it must have 

 food frequently and in considerable quan- 

 tities in order to keep burning the fires of 

 life. Therefore, when the food-supply fails, 

 the bird weakens and its constitutional 

 strength quickly deteriorates, with the re- 

 sult that a low temperature soon ends for it 

 the battle of life. 



Millions of birds are annually saved from 

 an untimely end by winter feeding, and this 



is the season of the year when bird-lovers 

 should be alert. It is but little trouble, and 

 but small expense, for a household to be 

 supplied with cracked grain and small seeds 

 with which the birds can be fed. Such ma- 

 terial can usually be bought at feed-stores 

 where it is sold as 'chick-feed.' A few boards 

 erected 3 to 4 feet from the ground, in such 

 a way as to keep the earth beneath free from 

 snow, affords an excellent place for distri- 

 buting food for grain-loving birds. Of course, 

 many food-shelters erected on posts are in 

 use throughout the country, and the expense 

 of constructing or purchasing these is not 

 great. At the butcher-shop, for a few cents, 

 a piece of beef-fat called 'suet' can be ob 

 tained, and this, when wired to a limb, sup- 

 lies heat-producing food for such birds as 

 Woodpeckers, Nuthatches, Chickadees, and 

 others whose diet ordinarily consists so 

 largely of insects. 



Teachers of Junior Audubon Clubs, espe- 

 cially in small towns in rural communities 

 where the school-houses are surrounded by 

 trees and bushes, can do much by directing 

 the efforts of their children in distributing 

 bird-food in winter. If it is not snowing, an 

 old table can be put out in the back yard and 

 food placed on this. From the windows the 



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