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designed by Mr. Grosvenor Atterbury — which are attached to the lamp-posts, 

 and are supplied each week with fresh items of bird-lore. 



A constant educational campaign is kept up by means of free circulation 

 of the federal and state pamphlets relating to birds, and the selling at cost of 

 various Audubon matter, and particularly Reed's Bird Guide, an invaluable 

 handbook for the beginner. 



The Queensborough Branch of the Public Library is arranging to circulate 

 books on nature subjects selected by the Audubon Society, and the Society 

 hopes, in time, to gather together a reference library of its own. 



On the 5th of July, which was Community Day at the Gardens, the bird- 

 fountain in one of the parks, named for Mrs. Russell Sage — Olivia, — was 

 dedicated to the people with appropriate ceremonies. While this is the largest 

 and most elaborate of the bird-fountains, there are many others in the indi- 

 vidual gardens — varying from terra-cotta flower-pot saucers, kept filled with 

 fresh water both winter and summer, to a cement basin with running water, 

 designed as a feature of the landscape plan of the garden. 



And the results? — it will be asked. The Society is only a year and a half 

 old, and the landscape situation was not a promising one, but the varieties 

 of the birds have sensibly increased, the nesting-boxes are being promptly 

 taken possession of, and the whole community is thoroughly interested in our 

 friends, the birds. 



The Englewood Bird Club 



By E. A. DANA, Secretary 



THE Englewood, New Jersey, Bird Club is too young an organization to 

 have much to report. Unquestionably the most significant thing in its 

 short history is the surprising support it has received in a community 

 where no wide interest in birds was previously known to exist. 



The Club had its origin in a delightful illustrated lecture on 'Our Wild 

 Birds and How to Attract Them,' given by Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes before 

 the Englewood Woman's Club, on April 7, 191 5, which aroused so much 

 enthusiasm that at its close the Club was hastily organized, with temporary 

 officers. 



These ofiicers later invited several bird-lovers to cooperate with them, and 

 on May 7, a general meeting attended by some forty persons was held, a 

 constitution adopted, and the following officers elected: Honorary President, 

 Frank M. Chapman; President, John T. Nichols; Vice-President, Robert S. 

 Lemmon; Secretary, Miss E. A. Dana; Treasurer, John Vanderbilt. With 

 Mr. Chapman as Honorary President, the success of the Club was at once 

 assured, and the names of those desirous of being proposed for membership 

 came in so rapidly that in a few weeks' time the Club numbered over two 

 hundred, with a junior membership of fifty. 



