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MEMBERSHIP 



The Society needs $50,000 at least in order to increase its activities. 

 Will you help expand its usefulness? 

 The classes of Membership are 



Life Members paying not less than $25.00 at one time. 

 Sustaining Members paying $1.00 annually. 

 Junior Members under ten years, paying 10 cents. 



NO BULLETIN UNTIL OCTOBER 



As has been the custom since it was first issued, the Bulletin will not 

 be issued for the months of July, August and September. The editors have 

 done their best to make each issue worth while to members and to all 

 others interested in birds and our work for their protection. The editors 

 wish to thank all who have in any way helped to make the Bulletin, 

 especially those contributors who have sent in so many varied and interest- 

 ing items. They hope that members will continue not only to read but to 

 contribute helpful facts and quaint and curious items of bird-lore. 



BIRD SUNDAY AT THE SANCTUARY 



The Rev. Manley B. Townsend, Unitarian Minister, in charge of 

 churches at Sharon and Medfield, Mass., formerly pastor of the Unitarian 

 Church at Nashua, N. Y., and for many years Secretary of the New Hamp- 

 shire Audubon Society, will hold a brief open-air service on the Sanctuary 

 grounds, Sunday, June 18th, at 4 P. M. The members of his Sharon 

 congregation will simply adjourn their service to the hill and invite the 

 general public and especially bird-lovers to participate. The service will 

 be especially appropriate to the place and to the work which is being con- 

 ducted there and will, of course, contain nothins; denominational. 



BIRD DAY AT THE SANCTUARY 



Saturday, May 20th, was the Society's Annual Bird Day. The weather 

 was perfect and the new Sanctuary was open all day to a throng of 

 visitors from far and near. Members and others interested in bird-life 

 were on the grounds early and late. Great interest was shown in Super- 

 intendent Higbee's collections in the new exhibition rooms. At two o'clock 

 the school-children of Sharon, led by Mrs. Harriet U. Goode, Local Secre- 

 tary, and in charge of Superintendent of Schools Spaulding, marched singing 

 up the hill to the Sanctuary Headquarters, where in the open air, under 

 the brilliant May sun, brief dedicatory ceremonies took place. Rev. Robert 

 F. Cheney of Southborough, one of the Directors of the Society, made the 

 opening prayer. Rev. Arthur E. Wilson, of Boston, gave whistling imita- 

 tions of birds, and Edward Howe Forbush, President of the Society, made 

 a brief instructive and entertaining address. Somewhat over five hundred 

 people were present, large lists of birds were obtained by enthusiastic 

 students, and many expressions of approval of the new Sanctuary buildings 

 and ^rounds were heard. 



