Mo nthly Bulletin 5 



SUMMER SCHOOL OF ORNITHOLOGY. 



The National Association of Audubon Societies now invites bird-lovers 

 to attend its summer school of applied ornithology at Amston, Connecticut. 

 The school will be in charge of Mr. Herbert K. Job, the well-known or- 

 nithologist, author and lecturer on birds. The Amston Experiment and 

 Demonstration Station is beautifully situated and well equipped for this 

 work. 



There is a fenced pond and swamp containing fifteen kinds of wild 

 ducks or other species for study and breeding experiments. Pheasants, bob- 

 whites and other quails are raised to demonstrate estate and game-farm 

 methods. In a woodland wire enclosure are breeding-stocks of the common 

 mourning dove and of the band-tailed pigeon of the West, the latter a species 

 quite similar to the lamented passenger pigeon. Nesting-boxes are occupied 

 by numbers of bluebirds, wrens, tree swallows and other birds, and bird-life 

 is varied and abundant. Wild ducks and herons frequent the lake, even in 

 svmuner, and grebes, loons, wild geese and others stop during migration. 

 Amston Lake is a picturesque body of water, over a mile long, with bold 

 shores mostly wooded, and affords excellent boating, bathing and fishing. 

 The headquarters of the Association, known as the "Audubon House," with 

 Mr. Job and assistant in attendance, will be open from the first week of 

 June till into the autumn. There are collections of bird specimens and a 

 small working ornithological library for use of visitors and students. At 

 Amston Inn, nearby, meals and accommodations can be secured. 



The purpose, in part, is to secure from the experimental work data for 

 publication to interest people everywhere in practical conservation of wild 

 bird-life. Likewise it is to teach these methods by actual demonstration to 

 those who may come to observe. Further, it is desired to make this beautiful 

 property a meeting-place afield for lovers of wild birds. The Association 

 has its business headquarters in New York City, but here it would establish 

 a social field rendezvous, amid birds and wild game and beautiful surround- 

 ings, where its friends and those in sympathy with its aims may drop in, 

 whether for the day or for more prolonged stay, and forget that they are 

 but two hours' journey from cities. Protected from uncongenial intrusion 

 by the fact that it is a private estate, and also that it has been made a "State 

 Game Preserve" and Sanctuary, under protection of the State, it should make 

 a congenial haven. 



This season, 1918, the first Summer School session will be opened, 

 lasting three weeks. Rally Day is Friday, July 5. Saturday, July 6, will 

 be Field Day, with excursions over the preserve, to learn the locations and 

 inspect the bird-work. On Monday, July 8, the classes will begin. There 

 will be evening lectures by well-known specialists. The formal session will 

 close Friday, July 26. Mr. Job will conduct most of the class work, with 

 practical talks by others, such as T. Gilbert Pearson, Edward Howe Forbush, 

 and Donald McVicar, one of the best-known game-keepers in America, for- 

 merly head game-keeper of the Duke of Leinster. Richard Edes Harrison, 



