Massachusetts Audubon Society 7 



On the trip Mr. Warren had the pleasure of meeting Mr .H, L. White 

 the distinguished ornithologist of "Belltrees" Scone, New South Wales, Aus- 

 tralia, and through him received an introduction to Australian birds. He 

 joins with Mr. White in presenting to tiie Society copies of the "EMU" the 

 Official Organ of the Ornithologists Union and of the Australian Museum 

 Magazine. These pamphlets also have been neatly bound in green buckram 

 and are presented to the Society which hereby expresses its great apprecia- 

 tion of these gifts. 



TWO RARE NESTS FOR WORCESTER COUNTY 



On May 15th, Mr. J. W. Barney told me of the discovery, by Mr. 

 Francis Choate, of a pileated woodpecker's nest on the estate of Charles 

 F. Choate, Jr., Esq., in Petersham. Two days later, with a party of friends 

 who were interested in birds, we made the journey; to Petersham to see 

 the nest and the bird. On the way from the old farmhouse to the nesting- 

 site; we found several trees which showed the results of the work of the 

 great woodpecker. Where the work was recent we found chips from 

 the white pine which were unbelievably large. In some cases the wood 

 had grown in around the holes, showing that the birds had been at work 

 in the vicinity for some years. 



The nest was in a great elm, beside an ancient! but now practically 

 disused highway. A small stone thrown against the dead limb in which 

 the nest was excavated flushed the male bird from the nest. He flew from 

 one tree to another, giving us a very good opportunity to observe all the 

 markings and uttering his loud cry of alarm, but in a very few minutes 

 he flew back to the nest. He stopped a moment before the entrance and 

 gave us a wonderful chance to observe him closely before he settled down 

 again in the nest. Our friends visited the nest a few days later and saw 

 both the male and female birds. 



Mr. Francis Choate has since reported the discovery of a second 

 occupied nest on the same estate. 



On May 27th, Mr. Thomas Lindsay summoned us by telephone to 

 see the nest and eggs of a killdeer plover in his pasture in Southborough. 

 The nest, which was exactly in the center of a rock which jutted up in 

 the middle of an old cart-path through the pasture, contained four eggs. 

 Later we saw the old bird with three of the young ones. Mr. Lindsay 

 has seen the killdeer on his estate for the past three or four years, but 

 has not succeeded in locating the nest until this season. 



R. F. C. 



WORLD-WIDE BIRD PROTECTION 

 International Committee Formed in London 



New York, July 8. — LInder the leadership of America, the world is 

 waking u}]| to the necessity of protecting its wild birds. Representatives 

 of organizations in various countries met in London on June 20 and 

 formed an International Committee for carrying forward propaganda 

 throughout the world on the subject of the protection of wild birds. 



T. Gilbert Pearson, President of the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, New York, heads this Committee, the membership of which in- 

 cludes Viscount Grey of Fallodon, England; Mijnheer P. G. Van Tien- 

 hoven of Holland, Monsieur Delacour of France, and other equally well 

 known bird-lovers. 



