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bird protection, and the exhibit, which was held in the Milton 

 Public Library, probably was the first public display of the kind 

 ever undertaken in this country. Under the circumstances, it 

 was surjjrisingiy complete. There was a fine show of bird 

 houses, nesting boxes and feeding stations made by various man- 

 ufacturers and by members of the club. There were bird baths 

 of many kinds and a collection of branches of different species 

 of trees, shrubs and vines bearing fruit attractive to birds, both 

 native and foreign, displayed on a white background. Seeds 

 of many kinds, and dried fruits for bird food, were shown, as 

 well as home-made bird food, the food stick and the birds' 

 Christmas tree. Traps for English sparrows, bird books, bird 

 charts, bird leaflets and pamjDhlet literature, bird portraits and 

 colored plates, bird drawings and cuts colored by children, bird 

 games, cardboard outlines for making birds, bird laws, posters 

 for protecting birds, — all were shown. 



The exhibition is well described and illustrated in the first 

 annual report of the Brush Hill Bird Club, which may be ob- 

 tained of Dr. Harris Kennedy, Milton, Massachusetts. This 

 report has an appendix containing a list of the birds of Milton 

 by Ralph E. Eorbes, and other interesting and useful infor- 

 mation. 



The exhibit was well attended, aroused much interest, and 

 several requests were made immediately for permission to show 

 it in other towns. These requests could not be granted, as the 

 specimens of wild fruit had dried and faded during the weeks 

 of the exhibition, but a considerable part of the material was 

 sent to Brookline, where the Brookline Bird Club and the 

 Brookline Forestry Department opened a still larger exhibition 

 in the public library of that town. This undertaking also at- 

 tracted much attention. Later, smaller shows were held in 

 l^ahant and Lynn, and at the Children's ]\ruseum at Jamaica 

 Pond, Boston. The Brush Hill Bird Club deserves great credit 

 for having inaugurated such an undertaking. The Massachu- 

 setts Audubon Society now keeps some of the most stable fea- 

 tures of such an exhibition on view permanently in the council 

 chamber of the Museum of the Boston Society of ^Natural His- 

 tory, corner Berkeley and Boylston streets, Boston. 



