NEW JERSEY AUDUBON SOCIETY 



SYNOPSIS OF PRESIDENTS ADDRESS 



Another year has rolled around, full of stirring events in 

 which time every man has had all he could attend to and 

 if he did not the Government wished to know the reason why, 

 and would see that he did have the necessary additional work. 

 In my case I have not had to appeal to the Government nor 

 have I had time to give to the birds and their interests the 

 attention which they deserve, not only from their economic 

 but their aesthetic side. In these days of stress and sorrow 

 we need their cheering voices and their winning ways to 

 divert us from things only too gloomy and depressing. 



I have lived in touch with birds since my boyhood only 

 to see the Bluebirds, the charming harbingers of spring dis- 

 appear from our door yards; the cheering whistle of the 

 Quail become so infrequent an occasion as to arouse one's 

 surprise. One may walk in the forest for days without hear- 

 ing the whir of a partridg'e. Numerous species of birds, which 

 a generation or two agof were common about our homes, are 

 now exceedingly rare and infrequent. INIuch of this has been 

 brought about by the ill advised doings of mankind, and 

 were there no laws enacted bird life would be as little in 

 evidence as it is in Italy where the note of a bird is almost 

 unknown and where laws for their protection, if they exist 

 are only of recent date. 



It is necessary that some one shall be on guard and ready 

 to advocate their cause, to further legislation for their protec- 

 tion, to oppose such laws as are contrary to common sense 

 and the very existence of the birds. The New Jersey Audu- 

 bon Societv is that in New Jersev, and its one purpose is to 

 initiate and perpetuate the love of birds in children and adults 

 and to carrv out work on the lines of legislation favorable to 

 their increase. 



The results of bird life in the economical equation of our 

 country has been well defined by our Government so that 

 it is to us now a matter of dollars and cents that the birds 



