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BOARD AT THE SANCTUARY. 



The Field residence at the Sanctuary will be opened early in May, Mrs. 

 George W. Field returning from Washington for that purpose. All mem- 

 bers who attended the Bird Day meeting in 1918 will recall with pleasure 

 Mrs. Field's hospitality. The same welcome will be extended this year. 

 Transients or those wishing to make a longer stay at the Sanctuary for nature 

 study or simply for rest among beautiful natural surroundings in the ozonic 

 air of the Sharon hilltop may obtain accommodations at reasonable rates 

 on application. Address Mrs. George W. Field, Sharon, Mass., or commu- 

 nication may be established through the Sanctuary telephone, Sharon 117-3. 

 Calls made between 11 and 12 a. m. will be most likely to receive prompt 

 attention. This is the warden's telephone and his work keeps him afield 

 most of the time, but he plans to be within call during that hour. 



STATE ORNITHOLOGIST'S BULLETINS. 



Some months ago this Bulletin called attention to the valuable work 

 being done by State Ornithologist Forbush in his monthly studies of the 

 movements of birds as reported to him by observers throughout New Eng- 

 land and adjacent territory. The demand for the summary of these obser- 

 vations, issued monthly to the press, observers and others especially inter- 

 ested, has grown to such an extent that it is impossible to supply it. There 

 is no special appropriation for this extension work of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, valuable as it is, and the State Ornithologist regretfully re- 

 quests the announcement that further requests cannot be granted. 



BIRDS FOR THE BLIND. 



A valuable work in giving blind people a knowledge of bird life is be- 

 ing done by Miss Susan F. Haskins of New Bedford, Mass. Her method is 

 to use the admirable four-page leaflets of the National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies with the colored and outline inserts as a basis. The outlines 

 of the bird pictures are pricked and the blind, who read with the finger- 

 tips, are thus able to get a good idea of the form and in many cases the 

 characteristic pose and size of the bird. A blind child hearing the song of a 

 robin, for instance, may by using the modified leaflet at the same time get 

 a very good idea of how the bird looks as he sings. 



HELIGOLAND AS A BIRD SANCTUARY. 



Ever since the signing of the armistice, and, indeed, a much earlier date, 

 a discussion has been going on intermittently as to what is to be done with 

 Heligoland, the little island in the North Sea which served such a sinister pur- 

 pose during the war as one of Germany's naval bases. Some of the pro- 

 posals have had much to be said for them, many of them nothing, but among 

 those advanced lately none, surely, can make a more general appeal than 

 that put forward at the annual meeting of the Royal Society for the Pro- 

 tection of Wild Birds, in England, for making Heligoland an ornithological 

 observation station and bird sanctuary under international control. 



Heligoland has always been famous for its birds, not only, like so many 

 high-cliffed, rock-girt islands, for its sea birds, but for the multitudes of land 



