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roadside posters, they have, with the consent of the Post Ofl&ce Department, 

 been sent to all the postmasters in the state with requests for their display. 



Through the influence of our Society, the following lectures have been given 

 during the past season before the Manchester Institute of Arts and Sciences: 

 'Among the Island Water Birds,' by William L. Finley; 'Song Birds of New 

 Hampshire, ' by F. Schuyler Matthews; ' Among the Egrets with Warden Bradley, * 

 by Herbert K. Job, and 'Useful Birds and Their Protection,' by Edward Howe 

 Forbush. — Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Secretary. 



New Jersey. — While the interest in the Audubon Society of New Jersey as 

 a Society may not have increased materially during the past year, the interest 

 in birds does not seem to be declining. New members come in slowly, but we 

 hear of bird-lovers in all directions, and this general interest as a result of more 

 w^ide-spread education is again in the right direction. 



The legislative work done by the Society, and by the National Association, 

 in New Jersey has been an important one, as a vicious bill was killed which 

 ordered the transfer of the Dove and Flicker to the game-bird list. Vigorous 

 measures were taken by the Society to pass an important anti-spring shooting 

 bill for the wild fowl and shore birds. Although the House passed this bill, it 

 was held in committee by the Senate, and killed there by a vote of two to one. 

 As usual, the friends of a bad cause were more active than those on the side of 

 righteousness, for at the hearing in the Senate few presented themselves to urge 

 the protection of the birds. 



In this respect New Jersey is a stumbling-stone, and a rock of offense to all 

 the neighboring states who send their sportsmen to destroy our shore and other 

 birds. — Miss Juli.a. S. Scribner, Secretary. 



The La Rue Holmes Nature Lover's League.— An aggressive move- 

 ment in behalf of birds was recently organized at Summit, New Jersey, through 

 the ardent love for nature of a young naturalist, whose brief career was closed 

 when but just entering upon this field of loving service. Organized in July, 1906, 

 an executive board, together with directors, chosen from various localities, 

 form a central organization with the power to create chapters in neighborhoods 

 and schools. The present membership, which reaches about fifteen hundred, 

 chiefly among the young, will shortly be materially increased by the addition 

 of chapters about to organize. 



Closely allied in interest to the Audubon Societies, whose Bluebird badge 

 is also the League emblem, the Audubon Leaflets have, during the past year, 

 been distributed monthly for study in schools wherever organizations exist. 

 Additional advantage will arise, in the coming year, through the universal 

 writing of essays each month in connection with this study, and also through the 

 increased use of the colored and outlined Audubon Leaflets. 



Nineteen of the forty lectures and addresses given during the recent past 



