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BULLETIN. 



Vol. L, No. 1 of the Florida Audubon Bulletin, issued quarterly from 

 the office of the Florida Audubon Society at Winter Park, comes to hand 

 with a store of useful and pleasing information. Its editors introduce it 

 as follows: 



"The Audubon Bulletin, a new activity of the Florida Audubon So- 

 ciety, greets with a kindly and hopeful spirit its bird-loving friends. Its 

 purpose is to chronicle the affairs of the society, to report items of interest 

 concerning birds, to keep its readers informed as to bird legislation and 

 conservation, and to briefly note the more interesting personal observations 

 of its readers who have a deep or growing interest in wild bird life. In 

 each issue it hopes to carry to those who receive it a cheerful message. 

 It will be glad to print in future numbers any brief items of notable 

 observations in connection with bird life. School children especially are 

 invited to send short reports of what they see that strikes them as being 

 worthy of note when observing the birds in the fields or about their homes. 

 The Bulletin will be sent free to all members of the Florida Audubon 

 Society. The next number will be issued July 1st. Communications should 

 be addressed to W. Scott Way, Secretary, Winter Park, Fla." 



BOARD AT THE SANCTUARY. 



The clear hilltop air, the restful quiet and sylvan beauty of the Moose 

 Hill region help attract people to the Audubon Society's Bird Sanctuary at 

 Sharon, Mass., where exceptional opportunities for bird and nature study 

 are available. During the month of May some 550 interested visitors saw 

 the collections at the museum, watched the rare and beautiful birds which 

 fed daily about the door and took bird walks along the many well-marked 

 paths. Botanists as well as bird students find unusual opportunities there. 

 People, once attracted to the place, come again and again. The demand 

 for the services of Warden Higbee in explaining the exhibits at the museum 

 and in the field is constant, and he is found a readily available source of 

 information on all nature topics as well as a genial guide. 



Bird walks, scheduled for Saturday afternoons at 2.25 and Tuesday 

 and Thursday evenings at 6.18, starting from the Sharon station will hence- 

 forward begin at the Sanctuary headquarters at 3 and 7, giving time for 

 people arriving by train to reach the house. The demand for the warden's 

 presence at headquarters afternoons has been so constant that this change 

 is necessary. 



Transients wishing to spend a day or more will find excellent accom- 

 modations at the Field residence at the very modest rate of two dollars a 

 day. Many have already thus enjoyed Mrs. Field's hospitality. 



All interested in nature study and especially in methods of bird pro- 

 tection are welcome at the Sanctuary. Members and others, however, should 

 bear in mind that its beauties and its wild life are for all and that destruc- 

 tion or removal by individuals of any portion of these violates the very 

 purpose for which it is maintained. All are earnestly urged not to pluck 

 flowers or fruit, not to destroy or remove plants, not to interfere in any 

 way with nesting birds. 



