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MASS. AUDUBON SOCIETY ACTIVITIES 



Audubon Charts 



Throughout the summer the interest expressed in the Audubon Bird 

 Charts has been very gratifying. Orders for them have come from schools, 

 camps, teachers, superintendents and individual bird students throughout 

 the country. So great has been this interest that a reprinting of the No. 

 2 Chart has become necessary and is now under way. The stock of charts 

 will be' ample for all orders which may come up to the time when the 

 new printing will be in hand. The Rev. Arthur C. Wilson, who has been 

 lecturing on birds in the Chautauqua circuit this summer, has used these 

 charts constantly with very gratifying success. 



The Summer's Work 



This has been an unusually busy summer at the headquarters of the 

 Society. 66 Newbury Street. Much interest has been expressed in the 

 work by visitors from distant points who take the opportunity to get 

 acquainted with us during the summer months. Bird-lovers and sight- 

 seers have been welcome and have gone away impressed with the im- 

 portance and variety of the work undertaken. Many members and new 

 friends have thus been made. During the week when the National Edu- 

 cation Association occupied the city, the Audubon Society participated in 

 the exhibition of educational work made at Horticultural Hall. The 

 educators expressed great interest in this exhibit, and the Society received 

 many words of praise for its beauty and value. Through the courtesy 

 of Miss Helen Winslow at Shirley, Mass., the Secretary was invited to 

 participate in the forum held there, and laid before an audience of house- 

 holders and summer visitors the needs of bird protection and the work 

 done for it by the National Association of Audubon Societies and the 

 Massachusetts Society. Through the courtesy of Esther M. Baxendale of 

 Cataumet, two lectures under the auspices of the Audubon Society were 

 given in the grove on the beautiful grounds of Amrita Island in the Baxen- 

 dale Memorial Summer Course. The first was by the Rev. Arthur C. 

 Wilson, the second bv Mr. Charles C. Gorst. Larse audiences of residents 

 and cottagers greeted both lecturers, and the thanks of the Audubon 

 Society are due both for their good work for the cause. Later in the 

 season Mr. Edward Avis dropped in for a week-end call on the Secretary 

 at Cataumet, and the spacious summer cottage of Mr. J. M. Linscott was 

 offered for the occasion and crowded by a brilliant audience which 

 listened for an hour, fascinated by Mr. Avis's bird whistling and violin 

 music. In this case as in the others, bird protection needs and the work 

 of the Audubon Societies were entertainingly and instructively set forth. 

 These items are in addition to the routine work of the Society, which has 

 been persistently carried on. 



Check-lists 



The check-lists which the Society gives free to interested students 

 have been freely used this summer, and many have come back to us well 

 filled. Among the interesting reports is one by Gerald Thayer, Dorothy 

 Dean and Girl Scout Campers who between June 10th and 24th listed 

 72 birds at tliQ Scout Camp, Briarcliff, N. Y. As this list contains no 

 sea-birds or shore-birds, it will be seen that the enthusiastic scouts and 

 their able leaders must most thoroughly have combed the woods for birds. 



