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three months in the spring, a series of illustrated articles on bird-life. These 

 have appeared in the best illustrated Sunday newspaper in western New York. 



For three years the Society has pubUshed a Bird Almanac of great beauty 

 and educational value. For two years the edition has been quickly sold out and 

 equal success is anticipated for this year. A complete migration calendar of 

 birds, reported by members, has been kept each year. The Society owns a fine 

 set of bird-sUdes, and twenty illustrated lectures were given the past year in 

 schools, before Boy Scouts, Campfire Girls, Bible schools, and women's clubs. 

 Eight other lectures were given on winter-feeding, and on building bird-boxes, 

 both made practical by illustrations. It is a conservative estimate that 2,500 

 Buffalo boys and girls are members of Junior Audubon Classes. 



An effort is now being made by the Society to induce Purple Martins to 

 return in large niunbers to western New York to nest. A twenty-eight-room 

 Martin-house has been erected in Delaware Park. An offer has been made 

 by the Society to six towns to pay one-half the cost of house-erection, if school- 

 children and friends of birds will raise the other half of the expense. The Society 

 is working in cooperation with the Chief Inspector of Game Laws for the 

 Buffalo Division in the prosecution of cases of destruction or injury to birds. 

 The Society is also cooperating with the State Department of Education in its 

 efforts to educate the children in rural districts to protect bird-life. — (Mrs.) 

 G. M. Turner, Secretary. 



Audubon Society of Columbus (Ohio). — Organized in June, 1913, the 

 Columbus Audubon Society has a membership of 210. Most of its work has 

 been in the form of providing free lectures, illustrated with lantern-slides. 

 These have attracted the boys and girls, and many Junior Audubon Classes 

 have been formed in the schools. On Arbor Day the Society has arranged bird- 

 programs and provided speakers in the several school-buildings. A collection 

 of 600 mounted birds, which has been on exhibition in a park, has been given 

 to the club, and for the present it will be for the use of the school-children. 



Bird-feeding stations were made by the boys in the manual-training depart- 

 ment, and placed in the parks and school-grounds. The Trades School boys 

 competed with other boys for prizes for the best nesting-boxes. These boxes 

 were on exhibition at the Public Library at an evening entertainment, when each 

 boy competing was given some kind of a prize, as a field-glass for the best three 

 houses, Chapman's 'Handbook of Birds,' 'Bird-Life,' and 'Bird Guides' for 

 the next best, and a year's subscription to Blue Bird to the others. Two real- 

 estate companies contributed to the prizes, as they wished bird-houses to be put 

 up in their properties. During the spring migration many persons joined the 

 club in order to go on the 'hikes' which were taken every Saturday. AH are 

 agreed that the thing of most interest in the club has been the 'experience 

 meetings,' when each one has been eager to tell what he or she has done indi- 

 vidually. — Lucy B. Stone, Secretary. 



