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reservation. Song birds, game birds, squirrels and deer are 

 protected tbere. 



Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes, a well-known enthusiast in 

 bird protection, has begun a work in Meriden, N. H., which 

 has practically turned the whole village into a bird reserva- 

 tion. A permanent bird sanctuary has been established 

 through the agency of the Meriden Bird Club, and many 

 plants that furnish food for birds have been set out. The 

 students of the Meriden xicademy have been enrolled and 

 they have joined with the people of the village in putting up 

 bird houses, erecting food houses for the birds, feeding the 

 birds and protecting them from their enemies, and have 

 greatly increased the bird population in the village and the 

 surrounding territory. Mr. Baynes has formed branch bird 

 clubs not only in 'New Hampshire but also in other States 

 in New England, where similar work is now being done. 



A splendid example of co-operation for the protection of 

 birds may be seen in Belmont, Mass. Three or four years 

 ago large numbers of foreigners who were then at work in 

 Belmont or the neighboring towns were very destructive to 

 bird life, and at that time the members of the Field and 

 Forest Club organized to resist the aggressions of these peo- 

 ple. Mr. Samuel D. Robbins, secretary of the club, and also 

 local secretary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, has 

 kindly written a report which follows : — 



Report op the Committee on Bird Protection of the Forest and 

 Field Club of Belmont, Mass., June, 1907, to 1912. 



At a meeting of the Forest and Field Club of Belmont on June 

 6, 1907, a committee on bird protection was ajipointed to stop the 

 wholesale slaughter of both song and game birds that was then 

 going on in Belmont, and to protect the lives of those nature lovers 

 who roamed through the Belmont woods. 



The committee immediately obtained the written pel-mission of the 

 owners of two square miles of land to post their grounds with signs 

 forbidding both shooting and trapping. Five hundred cloth signs 

 were printed at once in both English and Italian, These read: "No 

 shooting or trapping allowed within these grounds. The penalty for 

 each violation of this order is a fine of not more than $20. Defac- 

 ing these notices is prohibited by law, penalty not more than $25. 



