Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 437 



each meeting it is the custom for members who have been afield during the 

 preceding month to give three-minute reports of observations. 



The Club has joined with other parties in several field-trips and has ex- 

 pressed its sympathy with the measure to conserve the Quail in this country; 

 also it has written to United States Senators of New York and Representatives 

 of Brooklyn urging their support of Mr. Barbour's amended bill to establish 

 the Roosevelt-Sequoia National Park. During the past two years the Club 

 has kept posters at some of the entrances of Prospect Park, and this year 

 fresh ones, painted in oils, have been placed in the frames provided for that 

 purpose. — E. Tiplin, Secretary. 



Brookline (Mass.) Bird Club. — Our Club has enjoyed a most successful 

 year. As in other years, our principal activity has been our walks. These are 

 held on Saturdays and holidays, and during the spring migraton season, early 

 in the morning, each day except Thursdays, and on late Wednesday afternoons. 

 These have been so well attended that in nearly every case, during the spring 

 and early fall months, two or more trips have been conducted on the same 

 day. Many of our members have become greatly interested in bird-banding 

 and have done some excellent work. 



Our meetings have been well attended. The speakers have been as follows: 

 L. T. Little, 'The Birds of Nova Scotia;' Horace Taylor, 'Fuertes' Bird Draw- 

 ings;' Dr. John B. Brainerd, 'A Bird Trip in the Yosemite;' Rev. Manley B. 

 Townsend, 'Following Nature's Trail;' L. R. Talbot, 'Bird-Banding Experi- 

 ences in Thomasville, Georgia.' In February we held an exhibition of bird- 

 paintings by Ralph A. Quinby, of Dorchester. — (Mrs.) Mary Moore Kaan, 

 Secretary. 



Buck Hill (Pa.) Nature Club. — Although nature in its entirety lies within 

 the scope of the Buck Hill Nature Club, birds are kept always in the fore- 

 ground. Buck Hill Falls, Pa., the seat of the Club, is a bird sanctuary, within 

 whose limits nest nearly fourscore species of birds. Throughout the Club 

 season, which extended over the months of July and August, bird-walks were 

 taken on the average of four times weekly, two of them at daybreak. They 

 formed a part of the study course that, for adults, consisted of two classes 

 daily, five days a week. The Junior Classes met once every day except Sunday. 

 Attendance at the classes this summer totaled 1,188, a new high record. 



At the Club exhibit at the Barrett Township Fair, which is held annually 

 in August at Buck Hill Falls, emphasis was laid upon the value of birds. 

 Literature, generously supplied by the Audubon Society, was distributed 

 among the hundreds of visitors to our booth. We endeavored also to combat 

 the popular enmity toward 'good' snakes and to further the campaign for 

 wild-flower preservation. (The uprooting or picking of plants and flowers is 

 prohibited at Buck Hill Falls.) 



