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is taken that separate sessions of the clubs do not occur at the same 

 hour. The winter meetings heretofore have been held in Burlington, but 

 an invitation has been accepted to go to St. Johnsbury next year. 



At the July meetings the Bird and Botanical Clubs again unite. Field 

 notes are taken and a general good time is enjoyed. 



Summer meetings have been held as follows : On Lake Champlain 

 in 1902, at Arlington and Manchester in 1903, at Silver Lake and Lake 

 Dunmore in 1904. At Lake Champlain and Burlington in 1905. It is 

 planned to visit Mt. Mansfield next July. A report of the summer meet- 

 ing is always given by some member of the Club at the next winter 

 meeting. 



In 1903 with the purpose of finally securing a correct list of Vermont 

 birds, the practice was begun of sending to each member a migration 

 blank upon which to record all species observed during the year. As the 

 number who returned these blanks to the Secretary was disappointingly 

 small, the method was changed somewhat. At present, migration blanks 

 are sent annually to those members who have returned completed records 

 of the previous year. However, the Secretary will gladly send copies to 

 other members upon application. 



The Club is also interested in bird protection and at the 1904 meet- 

 ing a committee was appointed to confer with the State Fish and Game 

 Commission to secure the passage of the A. O. U. Model Bird Law by the 

 General Assembly. 



In connection with the Vermont Audubon Society the Club will soon 

 issue posters with the bird laws of the state printed thereon and warn- 

 ings as to their infringement. Some of the posters will be printed in 

 Italian for the enlightenment of those people who are such wholesale 

 destroyers of our small birds. 



Below are the titles of the more important papers read at the winter 

 meetings of the Club. In 1902 — Birds at My Home, Mrs. W. C. Horton, 

 Brattleboro; Bird Ecology, Carlton D. Howe, Essex Junction; Work of 

 the American Ornithologists' Union and Origin and Progress of Bird Pro- 

 tection in the United States, Mrs. E. B. Davenport, Brattleboro. In 1903 — 

 Birds of Mt. Mansfield, Mrs. E. B. Davenport, Brattleboro, (read in joint 

 session) ; Nesting of the Golden Crowned Kinglet, G. H. Ross, Rutland; A 

 Few Suggestions to the Members of the Vermont Bird Club, Carlton D. 

 Howe. In 1904 — Birds of Brandon, Rev. D. D. Chapin, Brandon ; Bird 

 Protection, A. C. Dike, Bristol; Identification of Birds by Their Songs, 

 Miss I. M. Paddock, Si. Johnsbury; Birds of Caspian Lake and Vicinity, 

 Prof. J. W. Votey, Burlington; A. Tame Ruflfed Grouse, C. D. Howe; 

 Bird Study, an Attractive Element of Nature, Rev. H. E. Thayer, Lud- 

 low; A Trip to the Farallone Islands, Mrs. E. B. Davenport (read in 



