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REPORTS OF AFFILIATED STATE SOCIETIES 

 AND OF BIRD CLUBS 



REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES 



Califomia.^ — Last June we held our thirteenth annual meeting. The 

 secretary's report at that time showed that bird-protection work had been 

 carried on in the usual manner, lectures being delivered, leaflets sent out, 

 information given, and violators of the law punished. It being legislative year, 

 our efforts were directed toward warding off adverse legislation. To this end 

 we published Leaflet No. lo, giving testimonials from ranchers in the grain- 

 growing parts of the state regarding the value of Meadowlarks and Blackbirds, 

 as well as those about the Flicker, which has been accused of destroying farm 

 buildings. These splendid testimonials were collected two years before by 

 our respresentatives, John D. Frederick and Mrs. Adele Lewis Grant. This 

 leaflet was sent to all our legislators and leading newspapers at the beginning of 

 the legislative session, and, for the first time in twelve years, no bills against 

 the Meadowlark were introduced. The other non-game birds were also not 

 mentioned, except that several of them were placed in bills that proposed to 

 put bounties upon them and certain animals. Other unfavorable bills aimed to 

 drain certain lakes that are breeding-places of our wild fowl, and repeal the 

 hunting license law. However, there was enough opposition to prevent 

 these bills getting far, and we feel that our thirteenth year was not an 

 unlucky one. 



Leaflet No. 6 containing a digest of the state bird law, was revised and 

 brought up to date in state and Federal regulations. This has been widely 

 distributed. 



As Chairman of Birds of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the 

 secretary compiled a leaflet of "Suggestive Bird Programs," with splendid 

 bibliography, for use in the various states in the Union. This leaflet has been 

 published in the General Federation Magazine and, because of this and a notice 

 given it by Bird-Lore, has gone into many homes in every state. Requests 

 for these programs are continually coming. With this leaflet are sent many of 

 those of the Audubon Society, so that the knowledge of our work is also spread- 

 ing throughout the country. 



An appeal was made for subscriptions for the Roosevelt Memorial Bird 

 Fountain, and many circular letters were sent out, as well as personal appeals 

 given, The response was fairly good, considering the many demands that have 

 been made upon the people the last two years. All seemed in sympathy with 

 the idea. Our director, Mrs. George W. Turner, is in charge of the Bird Work 

 for the Southern District of Women's Clubs, which comprises about six counties, 

 and is doing splendid work, using slides for her lectures. In the Los Angeles 



