Monthly Bulletin 7 



Audubon Society members who may wish to visit the place for inspection 

 or instruction. A comfortable hotel is being established where students or 

 vacationists may find entertainment, and good automobile roads lead thither 

 from all directions. It is ten miles west of Willimantic. Why not put 

 Amston down on the list of next smnmer's places worth visiting? 



The spring of 1917 will long be remembered by bird-lovers as well 

 as by gardeners as an extraordinarily backward one. A member of the 

 Society who has kept records for thirty-seven years avers that this is by 

 far the latest season in his experience, for birds and for vegetation. The 

 later migrants have been very tardy in arriving, and winter residents and 

 early migrants have lingered long beyond their usual times of departure. 

 Juncoes, for instance, were found in Cambridge as late as May 19th, fourteen 

 days later than the latest spring date (May 5, 1893), given in Mr. 

 Brewster's "Birds of the Cambridge Region" (1906). 



An interesting occurrence this spring has been the return migration 

 of the Labrador chickadees. The presence of these birds in numbers in 

 Massachusetts in the late autumn and early winter was noted in the second 

 number of this "Bulletin." Apparently most of them went farther south 

 during the winter, but they reappeared in the spring on their way back to 

 their northern home. One was seen in West Roxbury as late as May 18th 

 by Mr. F. H. Allen. 



THE BIRD Beginners in bird study will find in the "Bird Study 



STUDY BOOK. Book," by T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies, just the things they 

 need to know, — all about equipment, field work, winter study, migration of 

 birds, the fundamental facts of bird study and the story of the fight for bird 

 conservation in this country. Teachers of nature study will find this book 

 especially useful. There is a special chapter on teaching bird study in 

 which the author writes from a wide personal experience. Mr. Pearson is 

 one of the best-informed writers on birds in America. He is just the author 

 to kindle enthusiasm, as making friends with the birds has been a life hobby 

 and study. Can you answer these questions? You can if you have the 

 "Bird Study Book." 



Do birds have more than one mate? 



Are there bird spinsters? 



What bird is called the outcast? 



Why do birds migrate? 



What bird has more hours of daylight than any other creature on the 

 globe? 



What birds winter in your particular locality? 



How many birds are there in the world? 



The price of the "Bird Study Book" is Si. 25. It can be bought at this 

 office and will be mailed to any address at Sl.35. The Audubon Society 

 heartily recommends this book. 



