Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 



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Burroughs-Audubon Nature Club of Rochester (N. Y.). — We have had 

 a very interesting year. Our President, Wm. B. Hoot, had spent the preceding 

 winter in California, and on two different occasions he entertained the Club 

 with illustrated descriptions of the West, concluding each talk with a delight- 

 ful account of his ''Six Weeks in Sparrowdice." Sparrowdice was his own name 

 for one of the many bird-haunts in California, and the bird pictures which he 

 secured there were unusually line. Mr. Calvin C. Laney, Vice-President of the 

 Club, and superintendent of Rochester's park system, gave a very interesting 

 and instructive description of the Arnold Arboretum. The Secretary-Treasurer 

 gave his illustrated lecture, "Personal and Intimate Experiences with the Birds," 

 using about 150 hand-colored pictures which he himself had taken. The out- 

 of-door tramps through woods and fields were among the most pleasing and 

 profitable of our meetings, and in this way many a member had his first intro- 

 duction to some of Nature's rarest treasures. — Clinton E. Kellogg, Sec- 

 retary-Treasurer. 



Burroughs Junior Audubon Society of Kingston (N. Y.). — We held the 



first meeting for the year on September 18, at which time officers were elected. 

 Meetings have been held once a month. At one meeting our Manual^T raining 

 Director explained how to construct bird-houses and feeding-stations; at 

 another, one of our faculty gave an address and imitated the calls of about 

 fifteen birds very accurately. One trip was made to the home of John^^Burroughs, 

 and it was a very interesting and instructive one. Last spring we celebrated 



KINGSTO.V (.N. Y.) BURROUGHS JUNIOR AUDUBON SOCIETY 



