2 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



No Summer Bulletin 



As has been customary, the Bulletin will not be issued during the 

 summer months, the next number coming in October. The editors wish to 

 express their thanks to contributors and readers for their cordial support of 

 the publication. We feel that it has done much good in promioting the 

 welfare of the Society and in bringing the members into local touch, one 

 with another*. 



Bird Day 



The Society's Annual Bird Day Outing at the Moose Hill Sanctuary on 

 Saturday, May 14th, was a joyous one for all who participated, in spite of 

 a vigorous downpour of rain during a greater part of the day. ALout a 

 hundred and fifty people came, many of them at an early hour, and all were 

 enthusiastically sure that they were repaid for' the visit. Fifty or more 

 species of birds were observed throughout the day, some of them rare species. 

 Among these was the hybrid Brewster's warbler, which very properly ap- 

 peared to Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist and President of 

 the Society. Golden-winged warblers were numerous and almost everybody 

 had an opportunity to see them. One enthusiast who had motored up with 

 a party from New Bedford declared that she had been looking for this bird 

 for ten years and now, having seen it on all sides and heard it sing, she felt 

 that the world was all right no matter what happened. As usual Mrs. George 

 W. Field kept open house for all and served an excellent luncheon for all 

 who required it. The sun came out in the latter part of the afternoon, too 

 late to increase the attendance, which last year numbered about five hundred 

 and which this year was expected to be greatly increased. Visitors are 

 already coming to the Hill in lar|ge numbers and can be accommodated at 

 Mrs. Field's for a stay of several days at a time if they so desire. 



Wollaston Exhibit 



"Birds are friends" was the slogan at the exhibition of the Junior 

 Audubon Society in Wollaston School Hall under the auspices of the Edu- 

 cation Committee of the Wollaston Parent Teachers Association. Mrs. Jesse 

 F. Stevens, local secretary for Wollaston and leader of the Junior Audubon 

 Society, was in charge, with the able co-operation of Principal David Good- 

 speed and the teachers themselves. Prizes were awarded to youthful bird- 

 house makers and essayists. The exhibition was well attended by people 

 from Wollaston and elsewhere, and there were talks on birds by Winthrop 

 Packard and by Mrs. Amelia Brown, President of the Brockton Audubon 

 Society. The exhibition was a success in every way and reflects great credit 

 upon its prime mover, Mrs. Stevens. 



Brookline Exhibit 



The New England Federation of Natural History Societies was enter- 

 tained at its Annual Meeting at Brookline at a Natural History exhibit under 

 the auspices of the Brookline Bird Club. This splendid exhibit, which lasted 

 in all nine days, was prepared largely through the efforts of Mr. L. R. Talbot, 

 President of the Club, and Mrs. George W. Kaan, Secretary. There were a 

 large number of mounted birds displayed with nests and eggs of American 

 birds — 1250 in all. Some eighteen hundred people attended the exhibition, 

 which was tactfully and capably supervised by Mr. Arthur W. Parker. 



