Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 



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Bird Club held appropriate exercises in Chapel on Stale Bird Day. One of the 

 members brought us a Great Horned Owl which her brother shot after several 

 choice ducks had been devoured. The bird was mounted, the Board of Educa- 

 tion and the Club sharing the expense. — (Miss) Elizabeth Burroughs, 

 Secretary. 



Ca)ruga ( N. Y. ) Bird Club. — Practising its wartime economy another year, 

 the Cayuga Bird Club made no special effort to obtain funds, but contented 

 itself with small services in behalf of the birds. Several feeding stations were 

 maintained in the Club's bird-sanctuary, and an increasing number of them 

 were kept up at the schools and at private homes throughout the city. 



I'.IRD-HOUSES MADE nv CHILDREN Ol ITHACA, \. Y., IN CONTEST HELD BY CAYUGA 



UIRD CLL'B, 1019 



In the spring the Club announced a bird-box competition for the school 

 children. The boys took part with great enthusiasm, about loo very good boxes 

 being entered, and suitable prizes of various kinds of tools were awarded. The 

 boxes were placed on exhibition in the assembly hall of the high school, and the 

 presentation of the prizes formed the main exercise of a convocation hour. 

 This year the children kept their boxes to put up at their own homes, anfl tlie 

 Bird Club has heard that a good percentage of them were tenanted. 



As usual, the early Saturrlay morning lield-trips were held for the gen- 

 eral pul)lic during Ajjril and May. There were several leaders, each of 

 whom took a small section, so that everyone could enjoy the migration to the 

 lull. A new feature of our work this year was the planting of al)out 500 red 



