472 Bird - Lore 



REPORTS OF AFFILIATED STATE SOCIETIES 

 AND OF BIRD CLUBS 



REPORTS OF STATE SOCIETIES 



California. — During the year the Society has been carrying on its usual 

 activities, being materially helped by the various local organizations, each of 

 which has been looking after the needs of its own neighborhood. More than 

 ever have we been called upon to investigate cases of bird-killing. This is 

 because some birds pick fruit and vegetables, and some people have overlooked 

 their economic value. The small boy, too, imbued with the spirit of war, has 

 made use of the sling-shot and air-gun, and the birds have been the targets. In 

 an effort to counteract these conditions, we have distributed many of our own 

 cloth warning-cards, as well as those of the National Association. We are 

 looking forward to a legislative year and trying to be ready to meet the adverse 

 bird bills which we feel sure will be introduced. 



We are fortunate in having added to our ranks two splendid workers who 

 have come to make their home in California. One, Mrs. William Falger, for- 

 mer president of the North Dakota Audubon Society, is living in Modesto, in 

 the heart of the big San Joaquin Valley, where she is lecturing before schools 

 and clubs, and organizing the children. In this region of grain fields and 

 orchards she can be of the greatest service. The other is Mrs. G. M. Turner, 

 former secretary of the Buffalo (New York) Society. Mrs. Turner has located 

 in Riverside, in the southern part of the state, and is chairman of bird-work 

 for the women's clubs in her district. With her illustrated lectures she is 

 doing much good. 



Because of war conditions, there has not been quite so much lecture-work 

 as usual; still, our slides have been used in several parts of the state. It is 

 with sorrow that I report that the English Sparrows are getting into the 

 South, there being many of them in Los Angeles and neighboring cities. As 

 yet I do not see that they are driving out the other birds. — Harriet Williai^^s 

 Myers, Secretary. 



Connecticut. — Though the educational activities of this Society have 

 been none the less during the past year, on account of war conditions and the 

 pressure of more direct patriotic work, the social element has in a great degree 

 been omitted. There have been seven meetings of the Executive Board, 

 and, in spite of the severity of the past winter, a quorum was never lacking. 

 Forty of the Audubon Charts of winter birds were added to the sets now cir- 

 culated for us by the Connecticut State Board of Education. We paid half 

 of the cost of rebinding and cleaning necessary to traveling libraries, as well as 

 transportation one way for the libraries sent to teachers, the Board of Educa- 

 tion paying the other half. Two new traveling libraries were voted to be pur- 



