Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 447 



ment of Agriculture at Washington. — (Mrs.) Kingsmill Marrs, Chairman 

 of Executive Committee. 



Kentucky Audubon Society. — -Our Society was formed on January 8, 191 1, 

 and now numbers 138 members. During the past year we have devoted the 

 most of our time to bird-study, fulfilling the schedule of two walks a week dur- 

 ing the spring-migration period, and one walk (for aquatic birds) this autumn. 

 Our four Junior Classes have been highly successful; and, in addition to the 

 regular Junior bird-study, small prizes were given in each public school in the 

 city to the pupil making the best nesting-box and to the first one reporting a 

 bird nesting in his box ; and special prizes to other schools. We have put several 

 large and small feeding- and shelter-houses in our beautiful cemetery, which is 

 a bird-sanctuary, and have put a bird-bath on our library grounds. These have 

 served as models fof the community. — Eugene Simpson, Assistant Secretary. 



Massachusetts Audubon Society. — During the past year the Massa- 

 chusetts Audubon Society, with the guidance and very substantial aid of the 

 National Association, has added 6,536 members to the Junior Class member- 

 ship, a total of 26,980 since the work began among the young people of Massa- 

 chusetts. There is abundant evidence that this work among the children 

 reaches the grown people as well, and the friends of bird-protection were never 

 before so numerous or so active iji the state. In this Junior Class work the 

 National Association joined with the Society in obtaining the services of Henry 

 Oldys, of Silver Springs, Maryland, who lectured day and night throughout the 

 state for a month, everywhere stirring up great interest. Mr. Oldys addressed 

 altogether 24,350 people. 



Since September, 1915, the Society has added 252 sustaining members, 

 making its total 2,716, and 86 life members, a total membership of 402. It has 

 four traveUng hbraries, in charge of Miss Alice G. Chandler of Lancaster, 

 Mass., which are constantly in circulation throughout the state; and its three 

 illustrated traveling lectures are always in demand. 



The Society joined with the National Association and the State Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture in a bird-protection exhibit at Horticultural Hall; and it 

 has loaned exhibits during the year to scores of bird-clubs, granges, etc., in 

 all parts of this state, and to some in other states. Its permanent exhibit at 

 Its ofl[ice, 66 Newbury Street, Boston, has been very largely attended, and the 

 office force has been constantly busy giving advice and encouragement to 

 those who seek to attract and protect birds. 



An evidence of the interest felt in the state was given, when, in November, 

 on the day of the Harvard- Yale football game, 1,000 persons gathered in Ford 

 Hall to hear Herbert K. Job, in charge of the National Association's Depart- 

 ment of Applied Ornithology, lecture on his trip with ex-president Roosevelt 

 to the Louisiana bird-rookeries. 



