8 Bulletin 7 



THE SECTION MEETING PLAN. 



It has been felt fo:- some time that the Vermont Bird Club could 

 do a much more effective work if it could reach a greater number of 

 people. In the annual meeting of 1912 a committee was appointed to 

 report on a new plan of work which should interest more people and 

 increase the scope of the club's work. On the recommendation of this 

 committee the club adopted the following motion in the 1913 annual 

 meeting. 



1. That in addition to the regular winter and summer meetings, 

 the Vermont Bird Club shall hold section meetings at least twice each 

 year in or near each of the following places: — Barre, Bennington, 

 Brattleboro, Burlington, Hartland, Rutland and St. Johnsbury and at 

 other places convenient for bird students to get together. 



2. That in each place where a section meeting is to be held, a 

 leader shall be appointed — these leaders to constitute a committee in 

 charge of the district work. 



3. That it shall be the duty of each leader to make arrangements 

 for the meetings in his district, and to write a paper for use in his own 

 district meeting and in every other district meeting. The programs for 

 the district meetings would thus be made up largely from the papers by 

 the leaders. These papers should be generally educational and instruc- 

 tive, rather than a record of personal observations. The leader should 

 also use every means to induce those who attend the district meetings 

 to turn in all their personal observations, however small. 



THE SONG SPARROW STUDY. 



In accordance with the recommendation of the special committee 

 on new work for the club, it was voted to take up a special study of the 

 song sparrow in 1913. Each member is to gather all possible data on 

 the species for his own section, and a similar study is to be made 

 through the district meetings by those not now members of the club. 

 It was voted that the material thus gathered might be issued as a 

 special bulletin in the form of a monograph on the song sparrow in 

 Vermont. The editor of the bulletin was given general charge of this 

 study and was instructed to prepare a suggestive outline for use of 

 members and for use in the district meetings, and to assign special 

 topics to those especially qualified to pursue them. 



