Auk 
Jan. 
52 Report of Committee on Bird Protection. 
person in touch with the public press is to-day acquainted with 
the movement for the protection of wild birds and their exclusion 
from millinery. The matter has also extended to the schools 
with most encouraging results. 
While we cannot expect immediate success in all our efforts 
for bird protection, the arousal and extension of this sentiment 
will ultimately accomplish the desired end, and even to-day so 
widespread is the interest in wild bird life that no serious out- 
rage can be perpetrated without arousing a host of protests. 
So rapid had been the growth of the Audubon Societies, and 
so great the demand upon your Committee, that we recommended 
in the last report the establishment of a magazine which should 
be the organ of these societies and serve as ameans of keeping 
the immense membership in touch with their work. The idea was 
realized almost at once by the appearance of ‘ Bird-Lore,’ ably 
edited by Frank M. Chapman, which has fully justified the highest 
expectations of its advocates. The Audubon Society department, 
under the direction of Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright, serves to unite 
these organizations and forms, as it were, a central bureau of 
information upon this line of work. This relieves your Committee 
of a great burden of correspondence which it must soon have been 
quite unable to attend to, and permits it to turn its attention to 
general matters which belong more strictly to its scope. 
We may therefore refer those interested in the Audubon Soci- 
eties to the pages of ‘ Bird-Lore,’ merely saying that these 
organizations have continued to increase both in influence and 
membership, and that since our last report additional State Soci- 
eties have been established in Tennessee, Texas, and California. 
The establishment of a central publication office for Audubon 
Society literature is still as much desired as ever; but unfortunately 
no serious attempt has as yet been made in this direction. The 
inclination seems stronger than ever and we trust that some defi- 
nite steps will be taken at an early date. 
Probably at no time since the organization of the Audubon 
Societies has there been such a general use of birds in millinery 
as during the present winter, which is another evidence of the 
difficulty of common sense producing any effect upon fashion. 
Nevertheless the protest against birds in millinery was never so 
