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tection for Blackbirds, Meadowlarks and Flickers, and the amendment 

 to the hunting license limiting the age of applicants to not less than fourteen 

 5'ears. 



We have had notices of meetings posted in all libraries and have joined 

 with the Pasadena Socipty and all interested in birds and formed an 'Audubon 

 Council' at which, after an enjoyable luncheon, we discuss all Audubon matters 

 and find this of material benefit. 



At the State Federation Meeting of Women's Clubs in Pasadena, our Society 

 participated, and on request furnished an attractive exhibit of a mounted 

 black cat, amid trees and shrubs, holding an Oriole in its mouth, and a nearby 

 poster announced it to be 'The Birds' Worst Enemy.' 



We have added a number of rare mounted birds to our Museum — birds 

 found disabled or dead — and have also secured over $150 to build a bird 

 fountain in Exposition Park. The President has had over five dozen 'war 

 posters' put up during the summer. During the field-trips, and 'trail' trips 

 conducted through the summer, there have been observed 125 species and 4,310 

 individual birds. — (Mrs.) George H. Crane, Corresponding Secretary. 



Majrwood (111.) Bird Club. — Our Club was organized March 6, 1917, at 

 the home of Samuel A. Harper, its founder and President. An able lawyer, 

 a successful business man, a social worker, two women active in club and 

 civic affairs, a minister, and a grade school principal compose its directorate. 

 Active membership numbers a few less than 100 persons. Meetings are held in 

 the village hall. The Club is a sustaining member of the National Associa- 

 tion of Audubon Societies and a contributing member of the Illinois Audubon 

 Society, 



As a mark of recognition, the Club has elected to honorary membership 

 three sons of Illinois who have attained eminence as ornithologists: Robert 

 Ridgway, Benjamin T. Gault, and Ruthven Deane. Other honorary members 

 are the presidents of the village School and Library Boards, and the teachers of 

 Junior Audubon Classes in Maywood and Melrose Park schools. 



The Club printed and distributed two circulars containing information about 

 nesting-boxes and the security of their tenants from cats and English Sparrows. 

 Copies of articles on the protection and encouragement of birds were distributed 

 at meetings, village ordinances relating to these matters were reprinted in tlu- 

 local papers, and items on the Club and its work and on the cat were contrib- 

 uted. At the request of the Club, Dr. W. A. Evans wrote, in the Chicago 

 Tribune, a health article on cats entitled, 'Cats Only a Menace.' Ten copies of 

 the Biological Survey poster, 'Feed the Birds This VVinter,' were displayed as 

 soon as they came off the press. The Maywood Public Library is adding a few 

 bird books each month, selecting titles from a list submitted by the Club. 



This spring, the Maywood Twentieth Centur>- Club offered prizes to school- 

 children for the Ix'st three essays on hirHs written by girls and for the best 



