464 Bird - Lore 



talked in various schools in the city. At the February meeting Dr. Edward L. 

 Rice, of Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware, Ohio, traced the evolution of 

 bird-life, showing pictures of birds with teeth and birds with long tails. He 

 called attention to the general adaptation of birds to their environment. 

 'Birds'-Nests' formed the topic for the March meeting, when E. S. Thomas, a 

 former president, showed pictures of nests taken in and about the vicinity of 

 Buckeye Lake. Unusual nests were brought by members to the meeting, and 

 were identified by Mr. Thomas. 



Through the Cleveland Bird-Lover's Club the Society was able to hear 

 Henry Oldys in April. Mr. Oldys charmed his hearers with his reproduction 

 of bird-songs. He talked in several of the schools, and as a result Robin, 

 Thrush, and Meadowlark calls were to be heard in the school-yards, and every- 

 body was eager to join the Junior Audubons. Mr. Oldys went with the Society 

 on a field-trip, when White-throats and other birds were whistled up all along 

 the route. After that field-trips were taken once a week until July. An excur- 

 sion to the country home of a member, Dr. R. D. Woodman, proved one of 

 the most delightful trips. The result of the field-trips has been not only an 

 increase in our knowledge of birds, but in the promotion of fellowship and of 

 interest in the Club. 



During the spring migration, Mrs. Robert O. Ryder, the Society's official 

 recorder, published each week in the Ohio State Journal a story of the birds to 

 be seen at that time, giving their likely haunts and marks of identification. 

 In fact, the Society is beginning to be recognized as headquarters for infor- 

 mation about birds. Frequent calls are received for speakers in schools, or for 

 out-of-town clubs. These are furnished through the efforts of the Society. 



Instead of urging persons to join the Columbus Audubon Society, the 

 members are often met with the remark, "We want to belong to the Audubon 

 Society;" or, "Since we have had a country home we have become interested 

 in birds; what do we have to do to join the Audubon Society?" — Lucy B. 

 Stone, Secretary. 



Cumberland (Md.) Audubon Society. — Our Society became formal!}- 

 affiliated with the National Association of Audubon Societies on July 8, 1916. 

 This action was brought about by a committee of five persons of this city, 

 early in April, in sympathy with the Audubon morals, and desirous that others 

 should be of the same mind. Their efforts culminated in several public meet- 

 ings, the most enthusiastic being the one before which Miss Katharine Stuart, 

 Field Agent of the National Association for Virginia, gave an illustrated lec- 

 ture, when nearly thirty of the audience present were enlisted as members of 

 the new society. It became the habit, during the migration season, for a party 

 of members to take walks on Saturday afternoons, for the purpose of studying 

 the feathered creatures in their native haunts, which was found the only true 

 way to fully appreciate bird-life. These jaunts afforded keen pleasure. 



