Qo Bird -Lore 



interesting lecture by J. H. McGillvray,of the Public Domain, on 'Forestry and 

 Birds.' A fine series of slides illustrated the work the Game Commission and the 

 Forest Scouts are doing in the state. The Society joined with the Conservation 

 Department of the Federation of Women's Clubs in holding an exhibit of bird- 

 houses and bird-shelters made by the boys of the manual training classes of the 

 public schools. A beautifully illustrated talk on shore-birds was given by G. L. 

 Abbott, of Grosse Pointe Shores, at this time. 



Field-outings were held during the months of October, November, and De- 

 cember. The Chairman of the Field Committee, Mrs. F. W. Robinson, secured 

 the cooperation of the Commissioner of Parks and Boulevards in an effort to 

 feed the birds on Belle Isle during the winter. Two shelters were built at his 

 direction and placed in locations chosen by the Committee. The result was a 

 decided increase in the number of winter birds on Belle Isle. The children of 

 the Junior Leagues made weekly trips all winter to carry food for the birds. 

 On February lo they found a Bluebird feeding, making the earliest Bluebird 

 record for Detroit, so far as we know. 



Six Junior Leagues, with an enrollment of 174, were organized by Miss 

 Gertrude Gilmore, Chairman of the Junior Leagues Committee. Two new 

 Leagues and many new members have been added this fall. This work was 

 begun in the school-gardens of the city. 



The Detroit Audubon Society responded to the call to help save the Migra- 

 tory Bird Law from ruin. 



Nicholas Woods, of the Game Committee, had the Michigan state law 

 relating to birds translated into several languages and posted in the foreign 

 districts. The President has given twenty-five talks, most of them with slides, 

 before schools, Hbraries, and clubs. Much interest and enthusiasm for birds 

 and their protection has been shown, especially among the school-children. — 

 Mrs. Jefferson Butler, President. 



Doylestown (Pa.) Nature Club. — The Doylestown Nature Club has 

 increased in membership and activities to a marked degree since the report 

 sent to the National Association of Audubon Societies last October. Our 

 membership now numbers 167. At the regular meetings which take place on 

 the second and fourth Mondays in the month, the following subjects were 

 studied and presented: The Wind in Poetry, Water Fowl, A Study of Roots, 

 Ferns in their Native Haunts, Emerson as a Poet of Nature, Luminosity of 

 Insects and Other Organisms, Poisonous Plants, Birds of Prey, Nature's 

 Highways and Byways, Seed Travelers, Wonders of the Sea, Serpents, A 

 Symposium, Nature's Calendar. A talk on 'Sweet Peas up to Date,' was given 

 among a thousand hybridized sweet peas at W. Atlee Burpee's Seed Farm, 

 Doylestown, in June by the sweet pea expert, George W. Kerr. 



C. F. Choflfner, founder of the Liberty Bell Bird Club, gave a stereopticon 

 lecture on the value of birds in the public school, to which the school children 



