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children can readily sec the birds partaking 

 of the bounty which they have supplied for 

 them. Few acts of kindness in dealing with 



our wild feathered life yield more dividends 

 in the way of pleasure than the feeding of our 

 hungry bird population. 



A NEW AUDUBON SOCIETY BIRD SANCTUARY 



Miss Magnolia Woodward, active in the 

 work of the Audubon Society since its first 

 development in East Tennessee, reports that 

 a bird- reserve, covering 1,000 acres, on which 

 a club-house, with assembly-room, dressing- 

 room and kitchenette, will be erected, is to 

 be established in and around Island Home 

 Park, Knoxville, by the East Tennessee 

 Audubon Society. This acreage takes in all 

 of Island Home Park, and the land in that 

 vicinity, including the island, will be 2 miles 

 long and 1 mile wide. The club-house will 

 be erected within three-quarters of a mile of 

 the car-line on a lot which has been given for 



this purpose by Mr. Harry I jams, a member 

 of the Audubon Society. Members of the 

 Society have been at work on this plan for 

 some time and are very enthusiastic over the 

 results. There is only one large bird-reserve 

 in the state at this time, this being near 

 Nashville, owned by the state. The one here 

 will be the largest established and fostered 

 by an Audubon Society. 



Permits have been obtained from residents 

 within this 1,000-acre radius to post their 

 grounds and use them for the protection of 

 birds and nature. School-classes will be in- 

 vited to visit the reserve to study. 



WILLIAM WATSON WOOLLEN 



Mr. Samuel E. Perkins, III, sends the fol- 

 lowing notice regarding the passing of 

 William Watson Woollen, for so many years 

 prominently identified with nature-study in 

 and about Indianapolis: 



"Some years ago, at a ripe old age, William 

 Watson Woollen, President Emeritus of the 

 Nature Study Club of Indiana, gave his 

 early home 'Buzzard's Roost,' to the city of 

 Indianapolis for a park. The city, on accept- 

 ance of the gift, pledged itself to see that the 

 trees, flowers, and birds therein should not be 

 molested. It is a sanctuary. This place is the 

 situs of Woollen's 'Birds of Buzzard's Roost.' 



"He died on March 26, 192 1. On May 28 

 last, his birthday, the Nature Study Club of 



Indiana placed on an immense boulder in the 

 deep woods near the cabin, a bronze tablet 

 to his memory. The inscription reads as fol- 

 lows: 'William Watson Woollen, born May 

 28, 1838, died March 26, 192 1. This tract was 

 given by him to the city of Indianapolis De- 

 cember 9, 1909.— Nature Study Club of 

 Indiana.' 



"The Indiana Historical Society and the 

 Indiana Audubon Society joined in the me- 

 morial ceremony to do him honor. Professor 

 Stanley Coulter, Dean of Purdue University, 

 Judge Robert W. McBride, Dr. Frank B. 

 Wynn, President of the Nature Study Club, 

 and Charles W. Jewett, Mayor of Indian- 

 apolis, were the speakers." 



AIR-COOLED BIRD-HOUSES 



It has not been unusual to receive reports 

 that during the hot days of summer young 

 birds in small, close, nesting-boxes have been 

 killed by the heat of the sun, and the writer 

 has on more than one occasion seen instances 

 of this character. To avoid such catastrophes 

 and to render life in an artificial nest as com- 

 fortable as possible, various experiments 

 have been made to construct these boxes in 

 such a way that the heat of the sun would not 

 be so penetrating. One nature-lover who has 

 recently devised what he considers a very 



practicable bird-house, which may always 

 be depended upon to keep a reasonable tem- 

 perature in summer, is E. A. Oilman, of 

 519 E. Conant Street, Portage, Wis. Mr. 

 Oilman gives the following description of 

 this type of bird-home which he has found 

 to be very satisfactory: 



"Air-cooled shelter bird-houses are de- 

 signed and constructed to secure automatic- 

 removal of sun-heated air from their interior, 

 allowing the constant force of gravity to 

 effect an exchange of sun-heated air in open 



