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field-walks during the spring. A somewhat similar program is still continued. 

 The number taking the bird-walks varies from five to thirty-five, according 

 to the weather. On one of our trips to Boone Lake, Hudson, directly in the 

 path of bird-migration, we counted thirty Blackburnian Warblers on one 

 small tree. We have been so interested in our own Dorchester birds (one of our 

 members having tabulated 119 varieties at her own feeding-station), that last 

 year we began a new work. 



Our district is changing, woods and fields are disappearing, and houses 

 and people fill the feeding- and nesting-places; so last autumn we chose the 

 six school districts most adjacent to our club-house, showed the children 

 charts of the winter birds, and asked them to feed the birds and provide boxes 

 and homes for them during the winter. We used the material in the Audubon 

 Society's leaflet, employed our own experiences as stories, and gave a half- 

 hour talk to 800 children in each school-hall. We obtained permission for the 

 boys to make bird-houses in their manual-training work, and some of these 

 bird-houses were taken to the Franklin Park Audubon Society's Field-Day. 

 Winthrop Packard gave a delightful illustrated lecture for children in two of 

 the school-halls into which we had gathered the three upper grades of six 

 districts. At Christmas we gave a trimmed birds' Christmas tree to most of 

 these schools. We have also presented the matter of caring for the birds to a 

 number of clubs and organizations in Dorchester, and have asked that shrubs 

 and trees bearing berries be planted on the lawns. Everywhere we have 

 aroused interest, and we feel that the people of Dorchester will do their best 

 under changing conditions to care for our birds. — (Mrs.) E. H. Wright, 

 Chairman. 



Fitchburg (Massachusetts) Outdoor Club. — Our Club was organized 

 February 22, 1913, with the idea of studying Nature in various forms, but we 

 have done little except to study and protect birds. We now have thirty-eight 

 members. During the winter indoor meetings are held at the houses of the 

 members, and through the spring and early summer weekly bird-walks 

 are taken. Last winter feeding-boxes were maintained in woods outside the 

 city, and members of the Club visited them regularly two or three times a 

 week. One member makes migration reports to the Biological Survey. — 

 Grace F. Barnes, Secretary. 



Onondaga County (New York) Audubon Society. — Our Society was 

 organized February 19, 1914. It has a membership of fifty. It has promoted 

 an interest in birds in the public schools. Frequent publicity has been obtained 

 in the daily press of the city as to the esthetic and economic value of birds. Its 

 monthly meetings and weekly trips afield in May and June have aroused the 

 interest of many outside its membership. Many have been led to encourage 

 and protect bird-life by the erection of nesting-boxes, and by winter feeding. 



