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The warden at Birdcraft Sanctuary, the place that continues to be our 

 greatest factor in popular teaching, reports a more specialized interest. Those 

 that came at first merely to see and be amused are now becoming real students, 

 and many young sportsmen are hereby learning what may or may not be 

 hunted. A large delegation of the Fairfield County Game Protective Associ- 

 ation visited the Sanctuary recently. Game Warden W. F. Smith gave an 

 illustrated lecture and Warden Novak spoke on the life and habits of shore- 

 birds, illustrating with mounted specimens. 



Another feature of our work this year has been a weekly exhibit, in the 

 Museum, of the wild flowers in their season. A member of our Executive 

 Board and a special committee of the Fairfield Garden Club arranged these 

 exhibits, each specimen flower being placed by itself and labeled. This side 

 line has been very attractive, leading up to the important teaching that plants, 

 either in flower or fruit, are necessary to bird-life. It will thus be seen that 

 the bypaths opened through bird-study and -protection are many and varied. — 

 Charlotte A. Lacey, Secretary. 



District of Columbia. — Our Society was twenty-five years old last May 

 being the eighth Society to be formed in the United States. On May 18, 1897, 

 twelve persons met at the residence of Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten and formed 

 the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia. Of these twelve, nine are 

 still members of our Society. During these twenty-five years we have had two 

 presidents, three treasurers, and two secretaries. This year, at our annual 

 meeting, an enthusiastic audience listened to Dr. A. A. Allen's lecture on 

 'Birds and their Relation to Man.' Our five bird-study classes had a total 

 enrolment of 177 this spring; of these, 9 were teachers, 18 Girl Scouts, 3 Camp 

 Fire Girls, and 17 were Boy Scouts. 



BLACK POND, NEAR WASHINGTON, D. C, WHERE, ON MAY 27, 1922, MEMBERS OF 

 THE DISTRICT AUDUBON SOCIETY COUNTED 59 SPECIES OF WILD BIRDS 



