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good can teach the younger generation to know the birds without a gun, 

 to love the wild rose and leave it on its stalk, great good will have been 

 accomplished. 



CLOTH POSTERS 



Every bird-lover should make his own place, whether a tiny dooryard 

 or a great country estate, a bird sanctuary. For this purpose the cloth 

 posters of the Massachusetts Audubon Society are always in great demand. 

 They are the first step toward a legal remedy for trespass and illegal shoot- 

 ing. During 1920 some four thousand of these posters were distributed 

 by the Society to Members and others who wanted the birds on their prop- 

 erty let alone. For such purposes the Society is glad to furnish a half dozen 

 free to any responsible person asking for them. Larger quantities than this 

 we supply at cost of printing — 6c each. 



CHECK-LISTS 



To all interested in making a list of birds seen, whether members or 

 not, the Audubon Society will gladly furnish free check-lists. These list the 

 birds under their correct vernacular, or common, names and with the num- 

 bers given them by the American Ornithologists' Union. There is a blank 

 opposite each bird's name for the locality, the place seen and heard and the 

 date. The editors of the Bulletin are glad to chronicle yearly in the Bulle- 

 tin brief acknowledgments of lists made out and returned to us. This year 

 we have the following: Margaret D. Smith, North Truro, Mass., 41; Maude 

 A. Lang, Lowell, 102; Mrs. W. H. Howe, Lowell, 95; Howard E. Clark, 

 Waltham, 35; Willis H. Gerry (age 14), Melrose Highlands, 60; Mrs. Rich- 

 ard B. Harding, Brookline, 133. Occasionally lists which are not very long 

 will record unexpected or unusual species. Margaret D. Smith of North 

 Truro, for instance, having seen the upland plover, the orchard oriole and 

 the mockingbird. 



THE MOOSE HILL BIRD SANCTUARY 



Items from the Superintendent's Annual Report for the Year 1920 



INCREASED PATRONAGE 



Twenty-six hundred visitors have been registered at the Sanctuary office 

 this year, — about double the number of last year. 



INCREASED AREA 



We have added this year more than two hundred acres of varied growth 

 to our Sanctuary area, which now comprises over five hundred acres. 



ADDED AUTHORITY 



The Superintendent has recently been appointed Special Police Officer 

 with full authority over the territory under his care. He is also now a 

 regular Massachusetts Fish and Game Warden and a United States Deputy 

 Game Warden. 



PUBLICITY 



Several published articles during the year, both in the local press and 

 in the Society's Monthly Bulletin, have served to keep the bird-loving public 

 will informed of our activities and of the opportunities offered here for 



