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rounding the house are ample for our feeding devices, and may be made 

 especially attractive both for the birds and for our visiting friends. 



Our "Meadow Lot" is well adapted for a beautiful little pond. A short 

 trail from the house will lead up over the ledges to the summit of Moose 

 Hill (now within the Sanctuary area), where a superb view of the sur- 

 rounding country may be obtained. Our "Trail of the Big Pine" will now 

 lead from the Sharon Station to our headquarters through attractive and 

 varied woodland without touching the road, while a private drive from 

 Upland Road offers an attractive approach to the house and eliminates the 

 steep hill. 



These grounds contain some forty-five acres of land, well diversified 

 in its character, and with changes contemplated should be exceptionally 

 beautiful in a few years. 



1922 LECTURE COURSE 



Members of the Society and friends are earnestly requested to note 

 the change of place and time in the plans for the annual series of bird 

 lectures, which will be held this year on the first three Saturdays of April — 

 April 1st, 8th and 15th. 



These lectures will be held at Converse Hall, Tremont Temple, the 

 lectures beginning promptly at 11 A. M. The reasons for these changes 

 are several. Converse Hall is ample for our purposes, is centrally and 

 conveniently located, and may be obtained at a saving of nearly $1,000 for 

 the Course. Saturday afternoons, at which time our lectures have usually 

 been held, are periods of multiple engagements, outdoors and in, for many 

 people. The hours from 11 to 1 will release the audience in ample time 

 for such engagements or give them opportunity to go away for the week- 

 end. The change is something in the nature of an experiment, and the 

 Lecture Committee earnestly hopes that it will be found to work well. Com- 

 plete details concerning the lecturers, their topics and the other features 

 of the course will be published in the March Bulletin. Full particulars 

 with tickets will be mailed as usual to all members on or about the 15th 

 of this month. Do not fail to remember the place and hour and reserve 

 the dates. 



WILD FLOWERS OF NEW YORK 



Colored plates similar to the Birds of New York, 264 in number, illus- 

 trating very completely the wild flowers found within the limits of the 

 State of New York. These are the most beautiful and complete pictures of 

 wild flowers ever issued. We have them in portfolio form with index at 

 $3.25; the same bound, $1.00. We strongly reconmiend the bound form 

 as it prevents loss or crumpling of the valuable plates. 



UNUSUAL BIRDS 



Miss A. E. Loker, of Natick, reports that she has had with her all 

 winter a hermit thrush which she feeds daily. 



Mrs. H. L. Sampson, of 367 Harvard St., Cambridge, reports that on 

 January 16, 1922, she saw a mockingbird near Longwood Station, Brookline. 



Mrs. James A. Stiles, of Gardner, reports that she saw a mockingbird 

 there during the latter part of October and the first of November. 



