148 



Bird - Lore 



A. A. Sprague $io oo 



A. C. Banlett lo oo 



Dr. J. E. H. Kelso i oo 



Frederick W. Renz 5 oo 



Eliot D. Moore 5 oo 



Mrs. A. O. Treganza i oo 



Museum of Comparative Oology 5 00 



T. E. Douglas i 00 



G. O. Smith i 00 



G. Clyde Fisher 2 50 



Mrs. G. Clyde Fisher . 2 50 



Mrs. Rosa B. Roth 5 00 



Arthur Harris 5 00 



W. H. Fobes . . 10 00 



Harold G. Cook 5 00 



Mrs. W. H. Williams 5 00 



Theo. F. Thieme i 00 



Miss Mary King ... . . i 00 



Wm. E. Reed i 00 



William Shaffner i 00 



Miss Anna Fournace i 00 



Miss Sarah D. Gardiner . 5 00 



Mrs. George Church . . 5 00 



Louis L. Curtiss 2 00 



Mrs. John F. Russell 10 00 



Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Owen . . . 2 00 



Girl Scouts of Buffalo i 00 



Miss Mary Brickenstein 5 00 



Miss Lucy Brickenstein 5 00 



Audubon Society of the District of 



Columbia 100 00 



Woman's Club of Sarasota . . . 5 00 



Thos. W. Kussmaul 2 00 



Mrs. Edwin Barrows i 00 



Mrs. Carroll J. Post, Jr 5 00 



James F. Parker 2 00 



Mrs. Willard B. Walker 2 00 



Miss Anna Smith i 00 



Miss Margaret Burgi i 00 



Thos. C. Wilson i 00 



Rasmus Hanson ^5 00 



Benton Hanchett 10 00 



Mrs. Mary R. Stanley i 00 



Miss H. B. Audubon i 00 



Mrs. F. J. Sarmiento 15 00 



F. E. Smith 10 00 



Mrs. W. H. Shearman i 00 



Dr. Chas. T. Vorhies i 00 



Total Anonymous 23 00 



Names Withheld 565 50 



Total $6,777 55 



Reporting Violations 



Members of the Association and others 

 can help in the cause of bird-protection by 

 reporting to this office any violations of 

 the bird and game protective laws that 

 come to their attention. Some members 

 have been doing this for years, and when 

 the evidence presented is of such a char- 

 acter that it would seem a game warden 

 would be able, upon further investigation, 



to bring a successful prosecution, these cases 

 are immediately reported to the game com- 

 mission of the state in which the offenses 

 occur. State game officials are usually 

 prompt in giving attention to matters of 

 this character reported by the Association. 



The following letter from Game Pro- 

 tector Thomas H. Allen, of the State of 

 New York, addressed to Inspector Claude 

 Hanlon, is only one of numerous investi- 

 gations which have been brought about 

 through reports made by members of the 

 Association. 



Mr. Allen reported: 



"I beg to report to you in regard to the 

 complaint received from Westbury, Long 

 Island, as to the boys killing birds with 

 rifles, and to say that immediately upon 

 receipt of the complaint from the New 

 York office, I went to Westbury on Sat- 

 urday, December 28, 1918, and patrolled 

 the village. I found one boy with an air- 

 gun and took him home to his mother. 

 Took the gun from him. His mother stated 

 that she would not let him have the gun 



again. I then went to see Mr. . He 



stated that the boys were shooting birds. 

 I went to see Constable Conner and he 

 told me that he would stop all boys shoot- 

 ing air-guns in the village of Westbury. 

 After that I went to see the principal of the 

 school, but he was out of town during the 

 Christmas holidays. I will reach him by 

 letter and ask him to place this matter 

 before his boys and bring to their atten- 

 tion the seriousness of destroying birds of 

 any kind." 



Let Bird-Lovers Be Watchful 



Now that the world war is over, the 

 United States is faced with the tremendous 

 task of helping feed the famished countries 

 of Europe in addition to maintaining its 

 own domestic food supply. 



The wild birds constitute our greatest 

 natural guardians of the growing crops, 

 many of them daily eating their own 

 weight in insects. Never before has the 

 need for conserving our wild bird-life 

 been so tremendously vital as at this 

 time. It is, therefore, highly important 

 that everyone should be greatly interested 

 in bird-protection, and no opportunity 

 should be lost to encourage the birds to 

 come about the home, and to see that they 

 are protected from all destructive agencies. 



