Cbe ^utiubon ^ociette0 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Address all correspondence 

 the National Association of 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



d send all 



Audubon Societn 



ces for dues ; 

 111 Broadwa 



ributions, to 

 York City 



Membership in the National Association About Investments 



55.00 pai^dju,nuaiiy constitutes a person a Sustaining ^^^ Association has received from the 



$100.00 paid atone time constitutes a Life Membership Albert Willcox legacy the SUm of $256,078. 

 $1,000.00 paid constitutes a person a Patron ... ,^ 



S5.000.00 paid constitutes a person a Founder 1 he h inance Lommittee have invested I245,- 



fz5.ooo.oo paid constitutes a person a Benefactor ^^^ ;„ ^^^^ mortgages OH property in the 



FORM OF BEQUEST City of New York, and the balance of $io,- 



I J , L ■ J L .1 ^ T-,,.- SyS, which has only recently been paid into 



/ do hereby ^tve and bequeath to The ^' ' . -^ . ■' ^ 



National Association OF Audubon SociE- the treasury, will be invested as soon as a 



TIES FOR THE PROTECTION OF WiLD BiRDS satisfactory loan Can be found. 



AND Animals (Incorporated), of the City of The Finance Committee never loan more 



^'^ "^ ' than two-thirds of the appraised value of a 



property, the valuation being made by the 

 firm of Douglas Robinson, Brown Sc Co., 

 of New York, one of the most conserva- 



tive real estate firms in the city; further, 



a Title Guarantee Company's insurance 



New Year's Greeting policy is also taken, guaranteeing the title, 



so that our investments are conservative and 



The President wishes every member of the „r , „ ,„ /- ^ , „.•„.,.»(. c 



-' . safe and earn nve per cent interest, tree or 



Association and all others who are inter- . 



taxes, 

 ested in the subject of bird and game pro- ^^^^,^^^ ^^^^^^ ^j ^^-^ S^^j^^^ 1^^^,^ 



tection a Happy and Prosperous New Year, ^j.^.^^ed, who in life contributed twenty- 



and, at the same time, asks for their active j^^,^ j^„^^^ annually to the work of the 



cooperation in the work of our Society. They Association, left it a legacy of five hundred 



can give it in many ways, one of the most j^^,,^^^ ^^^.^ continuing his contribution in 



valuable of whicii is to encourage others to oeroetuitv 

 join the important economic movement we 



Reservation News ' 



are carrying on. 



The whole trend of tlie public mind just 

 now seems to be toward a more intelligent 

 consideration of the value of wild birds and 

 animals. A great deal of this sentiment can 

 be attributed to the active campaign made 

 by the Audubon Societies during the past 

 decade. This is progress which must be 

 continued. It is a change in public senti- 

 ment which cannot be expressed in more 

 beautiful words than the following: 



"I see the hearts of men go out, in new 

 love and care and understanding, to the 

 beasts of the field and to the birds of the air ; 

 and in all these I see the mind of the Son of 

 Man and the power of the Will Eternal." 



Warden Kroegel, in charge of Pelican 

 Island, Florida, sends us frequent and in- 

 teresting reports regarding the condition of 

 the birds there. He writes that the first 

 Pelican eggs were found about November 

 I, almost a month ahead of the date in 

 1905. On November 15, there were nearly 

 one thousand nests with eggs in them and 

 about five thousand birds on the island, and 

 nest-building was still going on. He adds, it 

 looks as though the island would be full this 

 season. On December 12, he reports that 

 the first birds were hatched the day before, 

 that not many were out yet, but the island is 

 very well filled up with nests. 



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