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Reservation with Warden Sprinkle last spring, can testify to the pains- 

 taking devotion of these men to the work that they have undertaken 

 and the need of more adequate remuneration for their services. The 

 patrol of the government reservations has now passed from the Audubon 

 Societies to the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, 

 where it properly belongs. The long list of reports of alhed and State 

 societies contain much of interest and illustrate how widespread the 

 interest in popular bird study has become. 



In the face of this most encouraging report it is distressing to turn to 

 the editorial in the last issue of 'Bird-Lore,' in which we learn of the action 

 of Legislatures and Congress leading to the drainage and opening to 

 settlement of portions of the Klamath Lake Reservation in Oregon and 

 California. The former operations have already converted part of the 

 lake into a desert, and the only hope for saving this most important refuge 

 seems to lie with the Secretary of the Interior whose interest might be 

 aroused if sufficient appeals were made to him. — W. S. 



Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Club. 1 — This attractive 

 publication introduces a new bird club apparently of a type of which we 

 cannot have too many. We have only praise for the numerous "Audubon" 

 clubs which are springing up all over the country, but of necessity their 

 activities are so completely taken up with conservation of wild life and 

 the furthering of popular and elementary nature study, that the more 

 serious side of ornithology, such as has engaged the attention of the "Nut- 

 tall," "Cooper" and "Delaware Valley" Clubs, has not come within their 

 scope. The mingling of the two activities in one organization has not 

 been productive of very happy results and we therefore welcome the 

 organization of "ornithological" clubs wherever the material for such clubs 

 exists. The presence of an "Audubon" club in the same community in 

 no way complicates the situation and members of the former may readily 

 be also active in the latter. The Essex County Club, like two of the three 

 mentioned above, is a men's club and was formally organized in 1916, 

 although a nucleus had existed since 1907 as the "Ipswich River Bird 

 Trip." The present officers of the club are: President, Frank W. Benson; 

 Vice President, Albert P. Morse; Secretary, Ralph Lawson; and Treasurer, 

 Albert B. Fowler; and the meetings are held at the Peabody Museum at 

 Salem, Mass. 



Besides the account of the founding of the Club, By-Laws, Calendar 

 and List of Members, the present publication contains an article on the 

 'Identification of Hawks in the Field' by Dr. C. W. Townsend; 'Thir- 

 teen Ipswich River Bird Trips' by Ralph Lawson, with a list of 136 species 

 observed; 'Cooperative Effort in Bird Study' by Arthur A. Osborne; and 

 'Told Around the Big Table' — a department for general notes. Under 



1 Bulletin of the Essex County Ornithological Ciub : December, 1919. Salem, 

 Mass. pp. 1-55. Price 50 cts. 



