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do overflows even the borders of the country. We want further protection 

 for the ruffed grouse, which is in danger of being shot completely out of 

 the State. We want to revise and improve the game laws in many ways, 

 one of them making the State laws conform with the national migratory 

 bird treaty act in all cases where the national laws are more strict than 

 those of the State. We want the plan for the publication of the Birds of 

 Massachusetts by the State Ornithologist with colored illustrations by 

 Fuertes to go through — an educational matter of great value to all citizens. 

 We want the Sanctuary idea of bird and nature protection to go out to 

 the world with redoubled force from our Sharon Sanctuary. Over twenty- 

 five hundred people visited the Sanctuary in 1920 and took the idea away 

 with them. We want to interest and assist five thousand in 1921. We want 

 our educational moving-picture film "The Birds of Killingworth" to be 

 seen by a million children, visualizing the value of our songbirds and the 

 need of, their protection in a new and attractive way. Our bird lectures, 

 bird books, travelling libraries and exhibition, our varied service to man- 

 kind through the birds, which is constant the year round, let us increase it 

 on this, our Anniversary Year. 



ANNIVERSARY FUND 

 MEMBERSHIP 



All these things can be done, better and more of them if we have the 

 means. Please help by a liberal subscription to our Anniversary Fund. The 

 money will be applied to the direct work of the Society this year. Our 

 Society has done — is doing — a great work on inadequate means. It is 

 not endowed. It is both a State and a national work, yet we receive no 

 assistance from either State or nation. Its Sustaining Membership fee of 

 $1.00 a year and the interest on a very modest Reserve Fund are its two 

 secure sources of income. It supplements these by the sale of charts, 

 calendars, bird books, and bird-protection material and by its Annual 

 Lecture Course. Often its General Fund, from which it pays its way from 

 day to day, is down to the danger line or below it. That is why we are 

 asking for an Anniversary subscription to help this fund. If the response 

 is a liberal one, we can greatly increase our eff"ectiveness in this our 

 Anniversary Year. 



BIRD LECTURES 



The Society's annual course of Bird Lectures will be held as usual 

 in Symphony Hall on Saturday afternoons at two o'clock, March 26th, April 

 2nd, and April 9th. Course tickets at $2.00 each will be issued to members 

 during Pebruary and may also be obtained on application at the Society on 

 or after February 15, 1921. There will be a limited number of reserved seats, 

 for which an extra charge will be made. Detailed information concerning 

 these and all other matters pertaining to the lecture course will be issued 

 with the tickets early in February. 



Features as so far arranged for these lectures are as follows: — 



MARCH 26th— 2 P. M. Birds of Killingworth, the Massachusetts 

 Audubon Society's beautiful film of Longfellow's classic poem. Bird pic- 



