Vol. XX 

 1903 



DuTCHER, Report of Committee on Bird Protection. I "^ ^ 



numbers all along our south shore. I informed a member of the 

 State Police, who lives in Edgarton, of the posting of the notices, 

 and he gave parties in that section to understand that the warning 

 must be respected." 



Audubo7i Work. — The Massachusetts Society is another of the 

 aggressive and progressive ones. It reports a membership of 

 5,362. It has distributed in the neighborhood of 8,000 circulars 

 during the past year, besides posting 800 copies of the bird law. 

 Two illustrated lectures and five libraries are kept at work con- 

 tinuously. 



Definite evidence of violations of the law have been brought to 

 the attention of the Fish and Game Commission, thus enabling 

 the State officers to obtain convictions. A second bird-chart has 

 been published, and the annual bird calendar has been continued. 

 Each winter a lecture course is maintained. The Society has no 

 local secretaries, some of whom are doing splendid work in the 

 way of free lectures, hat shows, and bird walks. The report of 

 the Society for 1897-1902, published Oct. 10, 1902, gives an 

 admirable resume of the good accomplished by this ' very much 

 alive' group of bird protectors. The liberal circulation of this 

 excellent publication will do very much to advance Audubon work, 

 not only in Massachusetts but throughout the whole country. 



Michigan. 



Legislation. — The bird law is, in many respects, an excellent 

 one, but is not comprehensive enough, as it does not protect all 

 of the non-game birds. By a very simple amendment to Section 

 14, Public Acts of 1901, the law would be much improved. 



Warden Work. — No wardens were employed by the Thayer 

 Fund. Late in the season a large colony of Herring Gulls was 

 called to the attention of the Chairman, and it is proposed to have 

 them guarded by a paid warden during the breeding season of 

 1903. 



Audubon Work. — There is no society in the State, but some 

 educational work has been done by the Chairman of the National 

 Committee. Through the courtesy of the Great Record Keeper, 

 Emma E. Bower, M. D., of the society of the ' Ladies of The 



