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appointed to organize Junior Audubon Societies has talked to eighteen dilTerent 

 schools, and, with the help of some bird-skins loaned by the Rev. Dr. George 

 R. Stuart, has easily aroused the interest of adults and children. At the sug- 

 gestion of Frank Flenniken and Miss Margaret Ambrose, we have furnished 

 Educational Leaflets to various tomato clubs for their monthly meetings. We 

 have cooperated with our Field Agent, O'C. Woodward, and have sent our 

 literature to places where he had aroused interest. An important innovation 

 has been the Society's request to have several deputy game-wardens — most of 

 them ladies — appointed in East Tennessee. W. D. Houser, State Warden, 

 having complied with our petition, the following persons have been appointed : 

 Mrs. Walter Barton, Mrs. J. H. Renfoer, Mrs. Rosa Hall Ryno, S. R. Rambo, 

 and J. S. Monday. By this means we hope to check the wanton destruction 

 of bird-life in our state. We now have 125 members and many subscribers to 

 Bird-Lore. — Magnolia Woodward, Corresponding Secretary. 



Viiginia. — The report of this Society for the past year shows activities 

 gratifying to all lovers of the cause of bird-protection. During the last hunting- 

 season the Society distributed hundreds of copies of the game-laws, and 

 instructed many persons how they could obtain such relief as our laws pro- 

 vide. During the severe weather of last February, our Society, following 

 the example of the National Association, telegraphed the newspapers of the 

 state to rcn-ind their readers of the dire straits the birds were in. The news- 

 papers responded promptly, and by their aid thousands of birds were undoubt- 

 edly saved from starvation. To those who wrote that they would see that the 

 birds were fed, we sent money for the purchase of bird- food. The National 

 Association contributed to the fund that was used for this purpose. 



Beginning early in the winter, and continuing till the close of the session 

 of the Legislature, a committee, of which Col. Jennings C. Wise, of Lexington, 

 was chairman, and our President, M. D. Hart, waged an aggressive campaign 

 to give Virginia a game-law fashioned after that of Alabama. Thousands of 

 printed appeals and arguments were distributed o^•er the state. The bill passed 

 the Senate by a big majority, and lacked only two votes of passing the 

 House. When the federal appropriation of $50,000 for the enforcement of the 

 Weeks-McLean migratory-bird law was being fought by Senator Reed and 

 others, our Society used every influence in its power, such as having its prom- 

 inent members write to Senators, or make a personal appeal to the members of 

 the Senate committee. By this course we helped to save the appropriation. 



In the Junior Audubon work, 165 classes have been organized with more 

 than 3,000 pupils doing active work by aid of the material for study so liberally 

 supplied by the National Association. Governor Stuart graciously con- 

 sented to issue a proclamation, at the- request of the Society, appointing May 

 4 to be obser\^ed as Bird Day; and its celebration aroused much public interest 

 in the protection of bird-life throughout the state. 



