iqo^'^1 DuTCHER, Report of Comvtittee on Bird Protection. I CJ I 



Wisconsin. 



Legislation. — The law is entirely satisfactory. 

 Warden Work. — No wardens were employed by the Thayer 

 Fund. 



Audubon Work. — Audubon work is going on actively and suc- 

 cessfully, especially among the schoolchildren. The membership 

 is now very nearly 18,000. The Society owns nearly 200 lantern 

 slides of birds, 70 being colored, which are rented for a small sum 

 to any school branch or local society desiring to use them. One 

 circulating library of bird books is owned ; there have been so 

 many calls for it that the society hopes to add others in the near 

 future. By the courtesy of the State Superintendent of Public 

 Instruction the Arbor and Bird Day Manual for 1902 carried the 

 invitation of the Audubon Society to each public school in the 

 State to cooperate in the work of bird protection and to form a 

 school branch. The success of these branches is almost entirely 

 due to the intelligent assistance of the teachers, without which it 

 would be impossible to carry on any organized work among the 

 children of the Commonwealth. The Society publishes a small 

 monthly magazine, devoted especially to bird subjects for children. 



The Thayer Fund. 



The treasurer of the fund submits the following statement, 

 showing the subscriptions and disbursements during the year end- 

 ing November i, 1902, to the correctness of which he certifies. 



