Massachusetts Audubon Society 3 



People interested in bird life may also obtain them on application at the 

 office of the Society, 66 Newbury Street. 



Every year requests have been made for opportunities to purchase 

 reserved seats at the annual bird lectures. Symphony Hall will give us 

 an opportunity to comply with this demand and at the same time have 

 ample seating opportunity for all who come on the ordinary admission 

 ticket. Arrangements will be made whereby all desiring reserved seats 

 may exchange the ordinary admission tickets for them on application at 

 the office of the Society. 



The Annual Lecture Course has not only been for many years a 

 source of enjoyment and education to all who have attended, but has 

 added materially to the funds of the Society, thus aiding in its good work. 

 There was never greater need of increased income than at present, and 

 it is earnestly hoped that all members and friends will avail themselves 

 of this interesting and inexpensive educational opportunity. 



Birds of the Post Office 



Often the best friends the birds have are people, perhaps of humble 

 vocations, who do good work for them as they go about their daily 

 business. It seems as if the birds appreciated that and took care to put 

 themselves in the way of such help. Robins have been known to 

 build their nests on beams amidst whirring and noisy machinery, and 

 now comes the story of Carolina bluebirds that find the rural mail- 

 boxes quite to their liking and the rural mail-carriers among their best 

 friends. North Carolina Education thus comments on this: 



"Friends of small creatures," says the correspondent, "would laud 

 Raymond Taylor, a rural mail carrier here (at Kinston), could they know 

 the patience he has exercised toward a host of blubirds the past few 

 months. Route No. 3, Taylor's, seems to be a favorite with the birds. 

 They have built innumerable nests in the mail boxes along it. Taylor 

 has endeavored to spare the nests, and the farmer owners have mani- 

 fested the same consideration. *Jap' Horner, at Hines' Junction, for 

 instance, tolerated three different nests in his. As fast as one brood 

 would be hatched and the nest torn out by Horner, another would be 

 built. Horner finally told the bluebird mother to carry on and not mind 

 him at all. Sometimes when Carrier Taylor has approached a box, sitting 

 birds have disregarded him entirely, seeming to place unlimited confi- 

 dence in him. 



"Carriers Raymond Taylor, of Kinston, and 'Jap' Horner, of Hines' 

 Juction, North Carolina, are hereby commended to the attention of the 

 Audubon Society as being worthy of that society's most distinguished 

 decorations of honor." 



Winter Birds 



The editors of the Bulletin would be glad to learn of anything strange 

 and new in local bird life. Thus far the winter birds do not seem to be 

 numerous or in especial variety. A mocking-bird has been reported as 

 seen at Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, and still remaining there as late 

 as November 30th. Redpolls ar at some feeding-stations, but in the 



