422 Bird - Lore 



Connecticut. — The Connecticut Audubon Society sends greetings to its 

 fellow workers and announces that it has, by standing very pat, survived the 

 war and the Circat Hoover Cannini^ Period without itself becoming a victim 

 of the process I 



Though we have held fewer E.xecuti\-e Committee meetings than usual — 

 five only — we have never lacked a ciuorum and have handled a normal amount 

 of business. As we were beginning to think that song-bird protection was 

 thoroughly understood in the state, some of the most flagrant destruction of 

 protected birds has come before us this fall, so that the cry, with renewed 

 vigor, is, "Carry-on." Two more traveling libraries have been sent out, also 

 a lecture with colored slides and fifty Audubon Charts have been added to our 

 equipment. 



Over 7,000 people have visited Birdcraft Museum. On the Sunday after- 

 noon before this report was written, 180 people visited the Museum, 85 of 

 these being men. We are always trying to broaden our perspective and co- 

 operate with those who are working along similar lines, though from a different 

 viewpoint — I mean the true sportsmen who in their turn are becoming more 

 and more practical allies of song-bird protection. 



When, two years ago, a bill was passed in the Connecticut Legislature 

 placing all but five of the shore- and upland game-birds upon the protected 

 list, much honest confusion arose among the younger sportsmen, who wished 

 to keep the law, but were rather weak about the identity of certain of the 

 smaller birds. To meet this, all such men were invited by the Game Warden 

 of Fairfield County (also one of our Executive Committee) to freely visit 

 Birdcraft Museum, where the keeper has arranged these birds in such a way 

 that they may be studied, both in their habitat groups and close at hand. 



Many sportsmen availed themselves of this opportunity as soon as the 

 season opened, ten having come in a single day. The Fish Hawk, or Osprey, 

 too often mistaken for one of his detrimental kinsmen, is also an object lesson 

 of the Museum, which place, owing to the Warden's ability to constantly adapt 

 the exhibit to special needs, is becoming an educational factor in the state. 



Miss Belle H. Johnson, inspector of our libraries, makes the following report 

 of the use of our traveling material, supplied by us for circulation through the 

 State Board of Education. 



For the year ending September i, 1919, 173 Audubon Bird Charts were 

 circulated. Sixty-six of our libraries were in use, mostly in country schools. 

 A total circulation of 1,666 volumes was reported. The average number of 

 books circulated in each school reporting was 34. Twenty-six portfolios of 

 bird-pictures and 33 collections of mounted post-cards were sent to schools. 



The bird lectures were used thirty-eight times, the total attendance being 

 6,087. The lectures were given by Sunday-schools, Junior Audubon Clubs, 

 science classes in high schools, private schools, libraries. Christian Endeavor 

 Societies, community improvement associations, boys' departments of the 



