Monthly Bulletin 7 



LECTURE COURSE. 



The annual course of lectures at Tremont Temple, which has come to 

 be an event among the bird-lovers of greater Boston, will be given this year 

 on Saturday afternoons in February. There will be three lectures, the first 

 on February 9th by Norman McClintock, ornithologist and expert motion 

 picture photographer. There will be six reels, dealing largely with the 

 home life of familiar northern birds, although many rarities will be shown. 

 There will be a reel of Florida birds, showing pelicans, skimmers, man-o'- 

 war-birds, a young bald eagle learning to fly, etc., and also our northern 

 birds wintering there as well as the local smaller birds. 



On February 16th Mr. Stanley C. Arthur, Louisiana State Conservation 

 Commissioner, will show the teeming bird life of the Louisiana bird reser- 

 vations and how the state protects and increases her bird life. 



The third lecture of the series will be on February 23d, by William 

 L. Finley of Oregon. Audubon Society members know Mr. Finley's work in 

 motion pictures so well that it need not be praised to them. During the 

 past year he has surpassed all previous records in recording rare and inter- 

 esting events in bird life on the motion-picture film. Among other attrac- 

 tions he shows the nuptial dance of the sage grouse, pictures of surpassing 

 scientific as well as general interest, as the dance of the sage grouse is a series 

 of extraordinary antics, rarely seen by naturalists and, according to Mr. 

 Finley, hitherto wrongly described by them. He will show also a striking 

 series of the home life of the hummingbird, and a great variety of useful 

 and educational pictures on the home life of common and rare birds. 

 Tickets for the course will be issued this year for the very small sum of one 

 dollar each. It is believed that the excellence of the course and the low 

 price will make these lectures more popular than ever. The audiences last 

 year and year before practically filled Tremont Temple, and the lecture 

 committee is seriously considering the desirability of this year issuing 

 tickets to, and through, Audubon Society members only. 



LEGACIES. 



Sums donated by will to the Society will be immediately placed in the 

 Reserve Fund of the Society, a use of the money which has peculiar value 

 because of its permanence. 



The altruistic work of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, carried on 

 for many years with increasing success, suggests the desirability of remem- 

 bering it in this fashion. All the funds of the Society are handled carefully 

 and conservatively, but the Reserve Fund, in the exclusive control of the 

 Board of Directors, is especially worthy of the consideration of testators 

 who wish to make legacies of lasting usefulness. 



There will always be need of organized work for bird protection, a form 

 of conservation of the greatest importance to the general welfare. The 

 Reserve Fund of the Society, when of sufficient size, wi'l insure this. Can 

 you not help in this way? 



FORM OF BEQUEST. 



I give and bequeath to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Incorporated, 

 the sum of Dollars for its Reserve Fund. 



