Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 475 



pose to arrange for two or three lectures during the coming winter, in order that 

 there may be a continual stimulus given to birds and their protection. We 

 are seriously considering employing a game-keeper whose business it will be to 

 stimulate not only active interest in birds among the summer residents of the 

 borough of Rumson, but among the natives and school-children as well. — Ira 

 Barrows, President. 



Seattle (Wash.) Audubon Society. — This Society was organized in 

 April, 1916, and affiliated with the national organization in August, during 

 the time of T. Gilbert Pearson's visit to Seattle. There are at present 114 

 members. Field- walks were taken each month during the summer to acquaint 

 the members with our local birds. Formal addresses have been made before 

 the Society by Prof. Trevor Kincaid on 'Economic Value of Birds' ; by Adelaide 

 Pollock on 'The Birds of Puget Sound'; by S. F. Rathbun on 'Bird Migration;' 

 and by T. Gilbert Pearson on 'The History and Work of the Audubon 

 Movement.' 



Through the Superintendent of Schools the following extract from the 

 Washington Audubon law was read and posted in each school-room in the 

 city, and through the Park Superintendent the same notice was posted at our 

 park entrances: 



"SESSION LAWS OF 1903, CHAPTER 134" 



"Sec. 2. No person shall, within the State of Washington, take or needlessly destroy 

 the nest or the eggs of any wild bird other than a game bird, or have such nest or eggs 

 in his or her possession. 



"Sec. 3. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a 

 misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred 

 dollars for each offense, and an additional fine of one dollar for each bird, living or dead, 

 or part of bird or nest, or set of eggs, or part thereof, possessed in violation of this act, 

 together with the costs of prosecuting in such action, or to imprisonment for thirty 

 days in the county jail, or both, at the discretion of the court."" 



We are planning for a bird-exhibit in February, and are ottering two prizes 

 to pupils for the best essays on 'Bird-Protection.' — Mrs. Charles Crick- 

 more, President. 



Sewickley Valley (Pa.) Audubon Society. — This Society was organized 

 on April 28, 1914, and has now 234 members. We became affiliated with the 

 National Association on June 12, 1914. 



The past year, under the administration of President C. B. Horton, has been 

 one of unusual activity and interest. Ernest Harold Baynes gave an illus- 

 trated lecture to the Society in the early winter, and his suggestions for feeding 

 and attracting birds were widely adopted. An illustrated lecture by W. S. 

 Thomas (City Ornithologist of Pittsburgh) in the early spring was a timely aid 

 to the still further placing of bird-houses. From the middle of May until the 



