146 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 



in bird protection. The society of St. Paul, Minn., 

 has posted hundreds of the following placard : 



"$5.00 REWARD 



For information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of 

 any person killing or attempting to kill any harmless birds, or 

 robbing or destroying the nests thereof. Boys with rubber slings 

 or pop-guns are hereby warned. 



HUMANE SOCIETY, 



W. L. WILSON, President. 

 Miss ANNA V. WRIGHT, Secretary. 

 Chamber of Commerce Building." 



In Our Dumb Animals of August, 1899, is found the 

 following offer : 



"PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



I hereby offer twenty prizes of $10 each, and forty prizes of $5 

 each, for evidence by which our Massachusetts Society for the 

 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall convict persons of violating 

 the laws of Massachusetts by killing any insect-eating bird or 

 taking eggs from its nest. 



GEO. T. ANGELL, President." 



I enclose a list of the most important of these socie- 

 ties in the United States and Canada. In many states 

 a number of local societies are organized. For these 

 and for information about similar societies in foreign 

 countries the reader is referred to the report of 1899 of 

 the American Society P. C. A., Madison avenue and 

 Twenty-sixth street, New York. The list here given 

 is taken from that report. Concerning the organization 

 and the work of local societies, information can be ob- 

 tained from the respective state society. 



