14 Massachusetts Audubon Society 



Mockingbirds 



Last winter seems to have killed off most of the mockingbirds in New 

 England. Two have been reported this winter in Maine, two in New Hamp- 

 shire, five in Massachusetts, and one in Rhode Island. 



LITTLE SCHOOL DOES BIG WORK 



Has Brought About Bird Sanctuaries Covering 20,000 Acres 



(From the Springfield Union) 



The small school at Sixteen Acres is doing a large work this winter in 

 protecting and caring for the birds which make this suburb their home, and 

 four birds are being wintered in the hospital which the school is maintaining. 

 For several years this school has been especially interested in the preserva- 

 tion of conmion birds and has put a good deal of time and work into helping 

 the birds in every conceivable way. 



Besides the regular hospital work of rescuing orphan birds and mending 

 injured ones, the school became interested in the sanctuary movement, and 

 in eight months 20,000 acres were posted and the owners pledged to protect 

 the birds and their nests thereon. The largest reservations so protected 

 through the school's efforts are the Mt. Tom and Mt. Wachusett Reservations 

 of nearly 2000 acres each, and Horace A. -Moses' farm of 1000 acres at 

 Woronco Heights. 



The John Ashley School of West Springfield co-operated in the sanctuary 

 movement, while Buckingham and Central Street Schools have co-operated in 

 the hospital work. 



When the Sixteen Acres School entered the sanctuary work no prize was 

 in view, just love for the birds. However, the Permanent Wild Life Pro- 

 tection Fund has given the children a certificate of valuable service for 

 founding 109 sanctuaries. The Peoples Journal of New York and Dr. Wil- 

 liam Hornaday have presented the school with Dr. Hornaday's works on nat- 

 ural history. The school has also received recognition from the Massa- 

 chusetts Fish and Game Commission. 



Anyone needing posters for their lands can be supplied by applying to 

 the school. 



GOOD WORK IN WORCESTER 

 (From the Worcester Telegram) 



"Feed the birds," the 1918 slogan of the Audubon Society, in Worcester, 

 Mrs. H. M. Witter, local secretary, and her assistants among the members 

 of the Fish and Game Commission and the Boy Scouts, will be heard again, 

 now that the snow has packed down. 



In the cold last year, lives of thousands of the game and other useful 



