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"for the Study and Protection of Birds and the Preservation of 

 Game," was organized in Greensboro, North CaroUna, on the nth 

 of March, and was incorporated on the 21st day of October, 1902. 

 At the present time its membership is as follows: Life mem- 

 bers, 8 ; sustaining members, 86 ; regular members, 308 ; junior 

 members, 386 ; total, 788. Six branch organizations have been 

 formed in graded schools, and it is the purpose of the Society to 

 grant charters to these branch societies. They are as yet in an 

 experimental stage ; some have regular meetings and much inter- 

 est is displayed, while others have been all but failures. About 

 9000 leaflets have been distributed, and the secretary has given 

 fifteen public lectures, presenting the objects and aims of the 

 Audubon Society. It is assisting the National Committee in pro- 

 curing better legislation for the preservation of birds, and as a 

 means of doing this is preparing to distribute 100.000 leaflets in 

 the State before the meeting of the legislature in January, 1903. 



Ohio. 



Legislation. — During the past year a radical improvement was 

 made in the game laws of Ohio, the section covering the non-game 

 birds practically being the A. O. U. model law. If the Ohio 

 Audubon Society sees that the statute is enforced the birds will 

 receive ample protection. 



By a special act of the legislature an annual Forest and Bird 

 Day was authorized to be observed in the State. 



Wardeti System. — No wardens were employed, but the Thayer 

 Fund furnished for distribution in the State 3,000 warning notices, 

 giving extracts from the non-game bird sections of the law, and 

 the penalty for violating the same. 



Audubon Work. — The Secretary reports as follows : " The 

 Audubon Society of Ohio has just completed the fourth year of 

 its existence. From a struggling nestling, it has grown steadily 

 and healthily toward maturity, as nestlings should, and already its 

 wings are plumed for glorious flight. As the eagle, ' she dwelleth 

 on the rock and hath her lodging there.' That rock is success. 



"The Audubon Society exists no longer as a sneer and a by- 

 word, in the eyes of the people, a sentimental fad, but as an 



