Reports of Affiliated Organizations 95 



Glenville (W. Va.) Normal Bird Club. — Our Club was officially organized 

 March 30, 1917. We have an enrollment of 52 members, and at least 30 of 

 these are young teachers, while a large majority of the rest expect to teach. 



During the last five years we have studied birds in connection with a 

 Nature-study Course offered in the Normal School. A study of birds is 

 required of all Nature-study students and comprises nearly one-third of the 

 course. 



Beginning in the early spring and continuing until sometime in June, we 

 make two bird-study trips every Saturday morning. The first group starts at 

 5.30 and the second one at 8 o'clock. These trips are under the guidance of 

 the biology teacher, E. R. Grose, who is a most efficient student of birds. 



Last winter there were four feeding-boxes put up by members of our Club, 

 and two of these were so arranged as to be seen from the windows of the Train- 

 ing School. 



Miss Ina Barnes, Supervisor of Training, contemplates organizing a Junior 

 Bird Club in the Training School this year. 



Our Club has ordered a number of the cloth 'Warning Notices' and is going 

 to post them about our town and in the rural community surrounding it. We 

 feel that many people take no action against the mistreatment of birds through 

 sheer ignorance of the law concerning them. 



We have also distributed the following publications of the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies among our members: 'Audubon Movement,' 

 'Formation of Bird Clubs and Audubon Societies,' 'Women and the Birds,' 

 and 'Cemeteries as Bird Sanctuaries.' — Edgar I. Hatfield, President. 



Hartford (Conn.) Bird-Study Club. — The past season has been a busy 

 one for the members of our Club, as a copy of our Year Book will indicate. 

 We have held twenty-four indoor meetings and twenty field meetings. 

 Despite the number of persons engaged in the great war's activities, our 

 average attendance at both indoor and outdoor meetings has been good. As 

 heretofore, the greater part of talent for our indoor meetings has been supplied 

 by our own members. During the season, however, we have been favored with 

 illustrated lectures by Charles Crawford Gorst and Clinton G. Abbott, which 

 were largely attended and much enjoyed. 



Many rare and unusual birds have been seen on our outings, among which 

 might be mentioned the Little Blue Heron, Whistling Swan, Widgeon, Gadwall 

 and Canvasback Ducks, White-rumi)e(l and Pectoral SandpijK'rs, Golden and 

 Black-bellied Plover, Pileated Woodpecker, Snowtlake, Evening Grosbeak, 

 both varieties of Crossbills, and Connecticut Warbler. On one of our field- 

 trips we were privileged to see a female Worm-eating Warbler on her nest 

 within a few feet of us, and located not 60 feet from the nest of a Whip-poor- 

 will. The nest of a Rough-winged Swallow was also observed. 



Over 40 pounds of bird-seed have been fed at one windowsill feeding-tray 



