Reports of Affiliated Organizations 115 



Sussex County (N. J.) Nature-Study Club. — This Club will, in November, 

 celebrate its eleventh birthday, and, although organized for the study of Nature 

 in general, from the first, birds caught and have held our interest, and our 

 'bird-walks' still prove the most popular feature of our work. While this has 

 not been a banner year in the number of birds seen, we have been pleased with 

 a number of the rarer ones — Pine and Evening Grosbeaks, several species of 

 Ducks, Lawrence and Mourning Warblers, and White-crowned Sparrow. The 

 food-shelves provided by the individual members attract the usual winter 

 visitors, many of whom become tame enough to eat from the hand. The in- 

 creasingly large flocks of Starlings are causing apprehension. Three years ago 

 only here and there was a stray one to be seen. 



Our Club has endeavored to comply with all recjuests sent by the National 

 and State Audubon Societies relating to legislative work, and have posted in 

 various places in our county the 'war' posters provided by the National 

 Association. During the year one moving- picture entertainment was given at 

 the county-seat, Newton. This consisted of an exhibition of reels from the 

 National Audubon Society. Every month a report of the Club-meeting is sent 

 to the county papers, and the interesting bird items contained in these reports 

 have, we believe, done their part toward rousing the interest of the people of 

 Sussex County in birds — their great value and the necessity of becoming their 

 protectors. As in many communities, there still exists in the hearts of some of 

 our hunters an antagonism for the Audubon Society, but a lack of sympathy 

 for the law-breaker is fast causing enforced respect, if not honest abandonment 

 of ruthless killing. — F, Blanche Hill, Secretary. 



Vassar College (N. Y.) Wake-Robin Club. — During the past year the 

 activities of our Club have not been so extensive as formerly, because of the 

 necessity found in all organizations in college of economizing both in time and 

 money, as a result of our war-preparedness program. We led the birds on the 

 campus during the winter In the spring the Club made its annual visit to 

 John Burroughs at 'Slabsides,' where, after a picnic lunch, Mr. Burroughs 

 spoke to us informal])- on the birds. — (Miss) Mildred .\. Tindle, SecreUiry. 



Vigo County (Ind.) Bird Club. — The plea of the birds was first heard in 

 Terre Haute in .\ugust of i()i6. Their messenger, Ernest H. Baynes, the 

 naturalist of Meriden, N. H., on a Chautauqua tour, organized the Vigo 

 County Bird Club, whose aim was to foster bird-presersation and -study and 

 further the movement for bird sanctuaries. The officers were: President. 

 Mrs. Sara Messing Stern; X'ice-President, Assistant Superintendent of School> 

 Tilley; Treasurer, .Mrs. William Cheney; Secretary, Miss .\manda Lolzc. 



The regular program for the \ear, under the direction of Prof. Tilley, 

 whose suggestions were most helpful, was as follows: 'Biography of John 

 .Audubon;' 'Fall Migration;' '.\ study of vacated nests' (found by the meml)er> 



