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ton destruction of birds, and promote the strict enforcement of the game 

 laws of the State of Illinois. 



The Mayor and Council of the city of Evanston, appreciating 

 the economic and aesthetic value of birds in the parks and city 

 limits, passed a special ordinance prohibiting their molestation by 

 the use of firearms, slingshot, bow and arrow, pelting with stones 

 or otherwise, and also forbade the taking of eggs or nest under a 

 penalty of not less than five nor more than twenty dollars for each 

 offence. 



The Governor, also, in his Arbor Day proclamation called the 

 attention of the citizens to the necessity for bird protection and 

 asked that exercises tending to show the value of birds be held in 

 connection with the tree exercises. 



Indiana. — Legislation. — There has been no change in the non- 

 game bird law, the A, O. U. model being still in force. The next 

 session of the legislature will be held in 1905. 



Warden work. — No wardens were employed by the Thayer 

 Fund. 



Audubon work. — The Secretary makes the following admirable 

 report of progress : 



"I have been in the thick of the work, troubling myself not at 

 all with the way what we accomplished might work up into a report ; 

 chiefly concerned in getting in what work I could in ways that 

 seemed to me most likely to count for the birds. 



" Do you know Indiana ? It is admirably located to ' work 

 out ' the old Roman idea of development from a center in Aubu- 

 bon work, as in many other things, and so a story of Indianapolis 

 work serves as a sort of type story for a good many cities and 

 villages in the State. 



" Here we have a strong Audubon Society ; not large in num- 

 bers, but large in accomplishment, considering the number. 

 Every one works; no one has to be entertained. We have a 

 number of open meetings in the year with interesting and timely 

 talks or papers. Aside from this the Society expends its effort 

 in two directions, work in the schools and in the press. 



"The school work is very interesting. Every spring we muster 

 all our members capable of being used in this way, to give one or 



