Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 421 



District, comprising about the same number of counties, Mrs. F. T. Bicknell 

 (President of the Los Angeles Audubon Society) has been bird chairman and 

 done equally good work. 



The repeated requests for information and leaflets coming to us from educa- 

 tors, librarians, rural school teachers, as well as bird-lovers, assures us that our 

 work is well established. (Mrs.) Harriet Williams Myers, Secretary. 



Colorado. — The regular monthly meetings, that were interrupted last fall 

 by the influenza, have started this fall with a promise of greater enthusiasm for 

 bird-study than ever before. The monthly lecture by the secretary will be 

 followed by round-table discussion, questions, experiences, and other informal 

 intercourse. Field-trips, as in the past, will furnish inspiration for closer study 

 of birds and broaden the sympathies of the participants. Experiments in bird- 

 boxes, feeding-trays, and bird-baths have been successful and of much value to 

 the owners, as well as a convenience to the birds. 



Much has been done to encourage Junior Audubon Societies, and the increase 

 in numbers from 48 to 70 is but the beginning of what we may expect this year. 

 Forty-three of the Club bird-slides were loaned to the State University for 

 extension work throughout the state. Other slides were used by Dr. Bergtold 

 to illustrate his lectures at the Recuperation Camp and by several teachers 

 with their clubs in the schools. Bird-slides, charts, pictures, mounted birds, 

 and stuffed skins have been used by the secretary in her various lectures before 

 the Denver Supply Teachers, the P. E. O., the Colorado Daughters, Denver 

 Woman's Club, Y. W. C. A., the Boys' Division of Y. M. C. A., Olinger's 

 Highlanders, the Denver Horticultural Society, and the course of ten lectures 

 given to the Denver County Teachers' Institute. 



The attempt to get a bill, like the New York law compelling cat control, 

 through the legislature failed. May a wider education along the line of bird 

 mortality caused by cats reap success at the next session. Dr. Arnold has 

 continued his bird hospital. Mr. Warren is a center of bird activities in the 

 Colorado Springs district, not only as president of the Colorado Audubon 

 Society, but also as chairman of the Pike's Peak Division of the Nature Pro- 

 tection Committee of the Colorado Mountain Club. In fact, nearly every 

 member is a nucleus of group activity for study and protection of birds. That 

 we have the cooperation of many other clubs is not strange, as our members 

 include the president of the Burroughs Nature Club, the chairman of the 

 Conservation Committee of the Colorado Woman's Clubs, chairman of the 

 Bird-Study Class of the Colorado Mountain Club, and chairman of the Nature 

 Protection Committee, Denver Region, of the Colorado Mountain Club. That 

 many classes of people are interested in birds is j)lain when one considers the 

 various organizations that have called upon the secretary for lectures. — 

 (Miss) Hattik E. Richardson, Secretary. 



