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father bluebird actually joined her in driving them from the paternal 

 rooi. 



After a little, the second brood left the nest, the parents leading the 

 young to nearby trees and teaching them to use their wings. Grad- 

 ually they worked farther and farther away from the house. I trust 

 their little family circle is still an unbroken one. 



REPORT OF THE GENERAL WORK OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIA- 

 TION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES FOR 1907. 



Mrs. Elizabeth B. Davenpokt. 



Mr. "William Butcher, President of the National Association 

 opened his annual address with this quotation from Stevenson, "It 

 is a golden maxim to cultivate the garden for the nose, and the eyes 

 will take care of themselves. Nor must the ear be forgotten; without 

 birds, a garden would be a prison yard," and then proceeded to tell 

 what the Society had done to prevent our country from gravitating to 

 this lamentable condition, giving the results of the work, by special 

 agents in Reservations, Warden Work, Educational Work, State Socie- 

 ties, Women's Clubs and Preservation of Big Game. 



Time will not permit- more than an outline of any of these branches 

 of activity. 



Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, our secretary, in addition to his general 

 work has been doing special field work, cruising along the coast to 

 locate breeding colonies of seabirds and securing wardens to guard 

 them. In South Carolina, near Cape Romaine he found 500 least 

 tern, now a rare bird. 



He attended the meetings of the International Conference of Cot- 

 ton Manufacturers and Growers, Atlanta, Ga.; the biennial session of 

 the National Ass. of Game Wardens and Commissioners, held in 

 National Park, Wyoming, and the meeting of the League of American 

 Sportsmen (Norfolk). 



At all of these gatherings strong resolutions were secured endors- 

 ing the work of the U. S. Biol. Survey. 



Legislative work in North and South Carolina and Georgia also 

 claimed his attention. He reports the State Audubon Society in South 

 Carolina incorporated by the Legislature ivith all the power of a game 

 commission. 



Mr. Edward Howe Forbush was occupied mainly with legislative 

 work from January till June in Massachusetts, Connecticut and New 

 Hampshire. In Massachusetts, bills were passed to protect loons, 

 eagles, gulls and the more useful owls and hawks. 



