Monthly Bulletin 5 



considerable interest in them, pointing them out to people looking for 

 birds and being able to give their common, if not their scientific name. 

 As to the latter, Nycticorax nycticorax nccvius is a good deal of a name 

 even for a policeman to handle. 



"WAR WINGS." 



Patriotism gets put to quaint uses nowadays. Massachusetts has 

 lately been flooded with circulars for the purpose of raising money for 

 the United States Junior Naval Reserve, which is no doubt a worthy 

 object. Unfortunately the circulars were such that much resentment was 

 , stirred in the hearts of bird-lovers, who protested to the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society in considerable numbers at being earnestly besought 

 to buy birds' wings, even for a good cause. Elaborate pictures and 

 descriptions of these wings, incorporated in the circular, showed many of 

 them to be probably artificial arrangements of the feathers of domestic 

 fowls, while as to the origin of others there might be some question. It 

 is doubtful if the attempt to raise money in this way will be productive of 

 results, even if it is continued. Certainly it will be ineffective among mem- 

 bers of the Audubon Society, as this storm of protest has proven. The So» 

 ciety has called the attention of men prominent in the leadership of the 

 Junior Naval Reserve to the undesirability of issuing this circular and it is 

 to be hoped that its use will be discontinued. 



On the thirtieth of May the Fortnightly club of Sharon will dedicate, 

 in Rockridge cemetery in that beautiful surburban town, the club's bird 

 bath. The Club took up, some time ago, the plan of making the local 

 cemetery a bird sanctuary, as recommended by the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies. All winter long the birds were fed there and in the 

 spring bird-houses were put out for the hole-nesting birds. The bird bath, 

 bountifully supplied with pure water, is a gentle gracious tribute to its 

 first president on the part of this admirably conducted woman's club. In 

 the practical work of preserving our birds the plan to make sanctuaries of 

 the cemeteries comes as a fine touch of idealism which helps make the good 

 work appeal to all, and the ceremonial comes as a fitting observance on 

 Memorial Day. 



There is an ever-increasing call for lectures on birds and bird-protec- 

 tion which has this spring gone beyond the power of the Secretary of the 

 Society, to fill personally. He has been fortunate, however, in having the 

 assistance in the lecture field of Miss Ruth E. Rouillard of the office staff, 

 Mrs. F. B. Goode, Local Secretary for Sharon, and Mr. Charles B. Floyd, 

 President of the Brookline Bird Club, all of whom have filled several en- 

 gagements most creditably. 



Rev. Henry Sartorio has also lectured for the Society in Italian, using 

 lantern slides, taking for his topic "Forbidden Hunting" before the Italian 



