47° Bird - Lore 



minute addresses on three days a week during the school year will be made by 

 members of this committee. 



Our Club has done a great deal in the past to build up a strong public 

 sentiment in favor of bird-protection by publishing in the newspapers accounts 

 of its meetings, giving outlines of the addresses. 



We have a bird-sanctuary of about 2,500 acres situated south of Hartford 

 on and near Cedar Mountain; and a member, Dr. Ansel G. Cook, secured for 

 us the free use of the 70 acres owned by the Children's Aid Society. The Club 

 has agreed to equip the sanctuary at its own expense with such bird-houses, 

 shelters, feeding-trays, bird-baths, fountains, etc., as may be necessary, such 

 equipment to remain the property of the Club; and furthermore to provide a 

 competent person to take charge of the property, who shall visit the sanctuary 

 regularly at least once a month. The agreement is for a period of ten years 

 and contains other items in regard to the rights of both parties. The agreement 

 made with thirty owners of other tracts of land in the sanctuary is not so 

 eleborate. Besides the clause in regard to cancellation of agreement it is as 

 follows: "I hereby grant to the Hartford Bird-Study Club, acting through its 

 Sanctuary Committee in conjunction with the Fish and Game Commission of 

 Connecticut, the right to post signs and use such means as may in their opinion 

 be necessary to attract and protect wild birds upon my land." Other members 

 of the Sanctuary Committee have been making bird-houses, so that more than 

 100 were made and mounted on gas-pipes last spring. Shrubs and trees have 

 been planted or transplanted to provide food and protection. The first con- 

 signment of Pheasants from the state game farm were liberated at the sanc- 

 tuary in August, 1916; other birds are to follow. 



We thought last year we had issued the best 'yearbook' we possibly could, 

 but we think that this year's is ahead of that. It provides for nineteen field- 

 meetings aside from suggestions for Christmas and New Year's Day censuses. 

 Twenty regular meetings are planned for, at which papers are to be read and 

 field-notes given. Four illustrated lectures are also arranged for. 



The Records Committee consists of the presidents, honorary, past, and 

 present, and all records are carefully examined before being placed in our 

 book, and unusual observations are carefully investigated before they are given 

 a place. Our composite list of birds has reached 213. Our yearly composite 

 list has passed the 180 mark. 



Our field-meetings are so planned that at most of them some of the rare 

 birds may be seen, but the field-meeting held at Bristol on Saturday, October 

 14, 1916, was unusual in regard to breaking the records not only of Connec- 

 ticut, but of New York. On May 20, 1916, our Club took a census of the birds 

 in Hartford and vicinity, and positively identified 127 varieties. — Edwin H. 

 MuNGER, President. 



