490 Bird -Lore 



Columbus (Ohio) Audubon Society. — Interest in birds, more as a relaxa- 

 tion than the doing of any special work, characterized the Society the past year, 

 owing to the stress of the times. Interesting lectures, to only two of which an 

 admission fee was charged, were given by the Club. In October, Mrs. S. 

 Louise Patteson urged the boys and girls to put up bird feeding-stations and 

 nesting-boxes, showing pictures of those used on her own place. In December, 

 Prof. R. C. Osburn, of Ohio State University, traced the evolution of bird-life 

 in an illustrated lecture which opened the eyes of many bird novices. The 

 January lecture by E. H. Baynes was interfered with by zero weather and 

 limited car service. Mr. Baynes, however, generously gave his "Wild Animal" 

 talk the next afternoon, and went to Camp Sherman in the evening, repeating 

 the talk and pictures for the boys in the camp. In February, Prof. J. S. Hine, 

 President of the Society, took his audience to Alaska, showing the pictures and 

 telling his experiences on the trip with the National Geographic Society 

 explorations in the Mt. Katmai district. In April, C. C Gorst celebrated 

 the migration season by migrating with his audience from the Western Meadow- 

 lark to the Eastern Hermit Thrush and the Southern Mockingbird, through 

 inimitable bird-calls. 



Besides the annual fee, a subscription was made to the National Associa- 

 tion to aid in bird-protection. In order to meet requests of bird clubs in the 

 vicinity, the constitution was amended, and a club of forty girls from St. Mary 

 of the Springs was the first to become affiliated with the Society. Only members 

 of the Society were allowed on the field-trips, which were made on Saturday 

 afternoons from March till June. These meetings varied from a few enthusiastic 

 ones on rainy or windy days to thirty or more when hospitable members of the 

 Club opened their summer cottages. — Lucy B. Stone, Secretary. 



DuBois (Pa.) Bird Club. — During the first year of its existence the Club 

 was increased from an original membership of eight to about sixty, largely 

 through a lecture by Ernest Harold Baynes. This was delivered in the high- 

 school auditorium, and as a result a much greater interest in bird-life was 

 awakened and numbers of bird-houses were placed throughout the city. 



Our greatest difficulty has been to arouse enthusiasm; people will join the 

 Club but it is difficult to find dependable workers. Much of the success of Mr. 

 Baynes' lecture was due to the efforts of two of the busiest women in the com- 

 munity, Mrs. Julia Long and Miss Sweeny, the former a teacher of domestic 

 arts and the latter a teacher of mathematics in the city high school, who were of 

 great assistance to the President of the Club in this matter. Mrs. Long, through 

 her work among the school children, was instrumental during the severe winter 

 weather in having hundreds of birds fed. The D \iBois^M ornin^ Courier printed 

 a number of bird articles by the Club's President. 



Encouraged by the results already obtained, we expect to do something 

 really worth while next year by showing the economic value of birds, their 



