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FEED THE BIRDS. 



The new year comes to us with the most severe long-continued 

 cold which has been seen since the Weather Bureau was established. Snow 

 covers the food supply of our winter birds to a considerable extent, and un- 

 less we are particularly careful to feed them they will suffer great hardship, 

 if not death itself. The calls for charity and unselfish giving are great. Money 

 and supplies are pouring forth from those who have to those who have not 

 the world over, to an extent never before known. It is to the credit of hu- 

 manity that, in all this tremendous outpouring to meet the needs of suffering 

 men, the needs of the birds are not forgotten. The State Fish and Game 

 Commission offers to supply food for the bob-whites and pheasants and asks 

 all who are interested in seeing that it is distributed to apply to them at the 

 State House. While primarily intended for the game birds, this will help 

 the other seed-eating birds as well. Chaff from the hay-mow, crumbs and 

 scraps from the table, anything eatable in fact, will be relished by some 

 birds if placed where they can get it. 



The Audubon Society as its last official act of the old year, sent broad- 

 cast, the request that the birds be fed. The formal notice comes to you thus 

 through the Bulletin. It has also been sent to every postoffice, every news- 

 paper, every woman's club and every D. A. R. Chapter in the New Eng- 

 land States. The expense of this is borne in our own State by our own 

 Society, in the other New England States by the National Association, which 

 co-operates with us in this as in so much other good work. 



THE LECTURE COURSE. 



It is a great pleasure to announce that in addition to the three dis- 

 tinguished lecturers who are to appear in the lecture course at Tremont 

 Temple on Saturday afternoons next February, the 9th, 16th and 23rd, Mr. 

 Charles C. Gorst will appear with his delightful imitations, or one might 

 better say, reproductions, of bird music, at each lecture. All who have ever 

 heard Mr. Gorst will be pleased to hear him again, especially as he comes 

 to us with added powers and new experiences in the fascinating field of bird 

 study which he makes peculiarly his own, a field in which he has no equal 

 in the results obtained. 



ANNUAL ^BUSINESS MEETING. 



January 15, 1918. 

 The Annual Business Meeting of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 

 Incorporated, will be held at the Society's office, 66 Newbury Street, on 

 Saturday, January 26, 1918, at 3 p. m. 



This is the corporation meeting and should not be confused with the 

 annual mass meeting which will be held in April. Notice of this will be 

 sent out later. 



WiNTHROP Packard, Secretary-Tre asurj^ . 



