Bird -Lore 



Sustaining Members, coutiiiufd. 

 Ombaugh, Mr. Chester B. 

 Osborn, Mrs. J. B. 

 Parker, Mrs. Harrison 

 Putnam, Prof. F. W. 

 Raymond, Mrs. James 

 Richards, Gen. John T. 

 Scott, Mr. William G. 

 Simonson, Mrs. Ethel B. 

 Smith, Miss Lillian 

 Snyder, Miss Mary L. 

 Stone, Mrs. H. F. 

 Suter, Mrs. C. R. 

 Vanderhoof, Mr. William M. 

 Wane, Mr. George C. 

 Wearne, Mr. Henry 

 Weber, Mr. R. H. 

 Webster, Mrs. E. H. 

 Wendell, Miss B. H. 

 Wheeler, Mr. C. W. B. 

 Whittemore, Mrs. J. H. 

 Williams, Mrs. C. D. 

 Williams, 2nd, Mr. Richard A. 



New Contributors 



Appleton, Mrs. W. C. 

 Benjamin, Mrs. John 

 Bostwick, Mrs. George W. 

 Brock Brothers 

 Brown, Mr. Irving Swan 

 Burton, Mrs. E. F. 

 Channing, Miss Eva 

 Cobb, Mr. Edward H. 

 Curtis, Mrs. F. R. 

 Duff, Mrs. M. E. 

 Farrell, Mrs. C. P. 

 Field, Mr. Cortlandt deP. 

 Fisher, Mr. Frederic A. 

 Fisher, Mrs. H. L. 

 Franklin, Mrs. V. G. 

 Fuller, Mrs. Arthur 0. 

 Fuller, Mrs. G. A. 

 Goldthwaite, Dr. Joel E. 

 Gyger, Mr. Edward G. 

 Hammond, Mrs. E. P. 

 "M. G. H." 

 "C. R. H." 



A Friend — Miss Tillie S. Jaregtu 

 Langdon, Mr. Palmer H. 

 Lewis, Mrs. John 

 Mead, Mrs. Prof. Ch. M. 

 Noeth, Mr. George E. 

 Perley, Miss Mary Y., In 



Memory of 

 Philipp, Mr. and Mrs. Moritz B. 

 Puffer, Mrs. E. D. 

 Scales, Miss Lilla M. 

 Sidman, Miss J. A. 

 Sylvester Mrs. H. F. 

 Taber, Mr. M. 

 Wells, Miss Lily 

 Williams, Mr. John D. 

 Winter, Mrs. I. L. 



General Notes 



On May i, 1913, four plume-hunters 

 raided the protected Egret colony at 

 Alligator Bay, Florida. Warden Williams, 

 employed jointly by this Association and 

 by Mr. Charles Willis Ward, was tem- 

 porarily absent at the time, but his assis- 

 tant and a boatman were on watch. Hear- 

 ing the shooting in the rookery, they 

 immediately took their rifles and started 

 to investigate. Upon their near approach, 

 the wardens fired on them and for some 

 time a fight with high-power rifles was in 

 progress. In the end the poachers re- 

 treated and escaped through the man- 

 grove swamps. It was found that they 

 had killed seven parent Egrets. In their 

 haste to leave, they had failed to secure 

 the plumes from two of the slain birds. 



The Pennsylvania Legislature has this 

 year made a splendid record in the matter 

 of bird-protection. Not only did it pass 

 the Audubon Law, introduced by Senator 

 Jones, to prohibit the sale of the feathers 

 of wild protected birds in that state, but 

 it also enacted a highly important measure 

 requiring a resident hunter's license, the 

 income from which is to be used for the 

 employment of a larger and much-needed 

 force of game-wardens. 



From the standpoint of bird-protection, 

 it is a pity the Legislature did not then 

 adjourn, for since then a bill has been 

 introduced offering a bounty on so-called 

 predatory birds and animals. In the list 

 of creatures on whose heads a price is set, 

 we find the words Hen Hawks. As the 

 term Hen Hawks is not defined, it is easy 

 to observe that the law can readily be 

 construed to apply to practically all spe- 

 cies of large Hawks found in the state. 



At once, upon learning that such a bill 

 had been presented to the Legislature, 

 this Association filed its most earnest pro- 

 tests with every member of the Pennsyl- 

 vania Senate and House of Representa- 

 tives. We shall continue to voice our 

 strong opposition to this measure and do 

 our utmost to bring about its defeat. 



