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secured, the hundred dollars being used to purchase two Liberty Bonds. Our 

 President has been appointed District Chairman of Bird-work, an honor we 

 feel she justly deserves. She has given twenty-three addresses, using slides of 

 her own photographs, and has represented our Society at the district and state 

 federation conventions. 



Our official speaker has answered requests from schools, clubs, and Boy 

 Scout meetings, and has spoken mainly on bird-migration, birds in their 

 economic relation and their domestic and esthetic values. Our library chair- 

 man has worked untiringly through the year, and her efforts have been rewarded 

 for we now possess the nucleus for a good library. Our custodian has accumu- 

 lated a valuable collection of government pamphlets, magazines, bird-nests, 

 and the like. 



Our press chairman has had the honor of having her line article on "Hawks" 

 printed in the Sunday magazine section of our leading newspaper. She has also 

 conducted twenty-eight "trail-trips" through the year, these being in addition 

 to our field-trips, and has taken Saturdays to accommodate school teachers 

 who were desirous of studying the birds. Some of our members conducted a 

 vigorous campaign during the holidays and again secured the largest annual 

 Christmas bird census. 



Our average attendance at indoor meetings has been 36, the largest being 

 several hundred, at our Reciprocity Day, when the bird-fountain was dedicated. 

 The largest field-day attendance was loi, at our annual "pilgrimage" to Fellow- 

 ship Hill. We have had other large and enthusiastic field-days, those in winter 

 having many eastern visitors. 



The largest number of birds observed at any one tield-day was forty-eight. — 

 Mrs. G. H. Crane, Corresponding Secretary. 



Mayweed (111.) Bird Club. — The Club's second year was devoted princi- 

 pally to launching a nation-wide campaign against the stray and unrestrained 

 cat, in the interest of bird-protection and food-conservation. A circular was 

 issued in April, which was emphatically indorsed by eminent authorities. The 

 Illinois Audubon Society is printing and distributing this document. The 

 Detroit Zoological Society and the Florida Audubon Society have distributed 

 1,000 and 500 copies respectively. It has been sent to Audubon Societies, bird 

 clubs, and individuals in the United States and Canada. No interested organiza- 

 tion or person can allow to pass unheeded this golden opportunity to help win 

 the war by eliminating the cat-menace to bird-life and food-supply. 



Four Junior Audubon Classes, with an enrollment of 176 children, were 

 organized. The school children, under the leadership of a Maywood Bird Club 

 director and the auspices of the Maywood Twentieth Century (Woman's) Club, 

 rendered excellently, on two occasions, before 1,800 persons, Ella Padon's bird 

 mascjue, "Bobbie in Birdhind." Letters were written to congressmen in behalf 

 of the Migratory Bird Treaty Fnal)ling .\ct and protesting against opening 



