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tion on an extensive marsh near the city 

 which at the present time is constantly shot 

 over. 



The Savannah (Ga.) Audubon Society, 

 under the energetic and resourceful leader- 

 ship of H. B. Skeele, is rapidly coming for- 

 ward as one of the most active local Audubon 

 Societies in the southern states. During the 

 spring the President of the National Asso- 

 ciation had the pleasure of visiting Savannah 

 on two occasions and seeing something of the 

 splendid work that is being accomplished in 

 this section of Georgia. Bird-walks have 

 been attended and renewed stimulus in orni- 

 thological study has been given an ever- 

 increasing number of observers studying the 

 bird-life of the region. The Society has an 

 article every week in the leading Savannah 

 paper. Inquiries are constantly received by 

 the President and other officers, asking how 

 birds may be better studied or more effec- 

 tively protected and encouraged to come about 

 the home. In March, several hundred people 

 collected in the Savannah theatre to hear an 

 illustrated address on bird-life. 



There are few State Audubon Societies 

 whose work has been expanded so extensively 

 the past two years as that of the Indiana 

 Audubon Society. Prof. M. L. Fisher is 

 President, and Frank C. Evans of Craw- 

 fordsville is Secretary. Although a man of 

 large financial interests and many obligations, 

 Mr. Evans has devoted a great deal of time 

 to the expansion of the Audubon work in 

 Indiana. A bulletin recently published 

 under his supervision, which gives in- 

 structions to those desiring to study wild 

 birds and aid others in doing so, has been 

 widely distributed throughout the state. The 

 National Association's plan of Junior Audu- 

 bon Clubs is being handled directly by Mr. 



Evans and his associates, and the material 

 supplied the children of the state is being 

 furnished directly from his office. There is an 

 unusually close bond of cooperation between 

 the Indiana Audubon Society and the State 

 Department of Conservation. The two 

 organizations work in the utmost harmony. 



The past season the Illinois Audubon Soci- 

 ety again gave a course of public lectures 

 which were largely attended by the people of 

 Chicago. Mr. O. M. Schantz, President, has 

 spent much time in lecturing on various 

 topics connected with conservation work, and 

 his influence has been felt throughout the 

 state. Miss Catherine A. Mitchell, the Sec- 

 retary, has had her hands full attending to 

 the correspondence and distributing litera- 

 ture called for by the people of her state and 

 elsewhere. 



The Western Tennessee Audubon Society 

 has succeeded in establishing a magnificent 

 bird-reservation near Knoxville, and it is a 

 great pleasure to announce that this has been 

 named in honor of Magnolia Woodward who 

 has been the mother of the Society since the 

 day of its first organization. It was she who 

 kept the Society alive some years ago dur- 

 ing a period of very little activity. The 

 naming of this important reservation for her 

 is, therefore, a most fitting and appropriate 

 tribute. 



During the first week in May the Audubon 

 Society of New Hampshire and the Man- 

 chester (N. H.) Bird Club had an extensive 

 exhibit in behalf of bird-conservation at the 

 Institute of Arts and Sciences, Manchester, 

 N. H. The exhibit took a wide scope, and 

 the National Association was very glad to 

 cooperate by sending such materials from the 

 office as would be of value and interest to 

 those attending the exhibit. 



ROBINS AND MULBERRY TREES 



Are the members of the Audubon Society 

 aware that our good friends, the Robins, Cat- 

 birds, Flickers, Woodpeckers, and other 

 berry- and fruit-eating birds are threatened 

 with extinction, and that our Federal Gov- 

 ernment is now issuing permits to kill Robins 

 "when they are committing or are about to 



commit serious injury to cherries and other 

 small fruits"? The holder of such permit is 

 allowed to shoot Robins "from half an hour 

 before sunrise to half an hour after sunset, 

 each day from May 16 to July 15, and to hold 

 the bodies in cold storage until after July 25 

 for 'food purposes.' " 



