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hawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes, swal- 

 lows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers, 

 waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all 

 perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects. 

 Other regulations of the bill include No. 2, closed season at night; 

 Reg. No. 3, closed season on insectivorous birds; Reg. No. 4, five-year 

 closed season on certain game birds; Reg. No. 5, closed season on cer- 

 tain navigable rivers; Reg. No. 6, zones; Reg. No. 7, construction; 

 Regs. Nos. 8 and 9, closed seasons in zone Nos. 1 and 2. 



LOCAL NATURE CLUBS IN VERMONT 



Jay G. Underwood, Hartland 



There are three active Nature Clubs to my knowledge in the State, 

 the Arboreta Walking Club, Burlington; the Burlington Nature Club, 

 and the Hartland Nature Club. 



The Arboreta Walking Club was organized Oct. 1, 1910. There are 

 seventeen active members and five honorary members. The admission 

 fee is 25 cents and the annual dues are 60 cents. Fifty-two meetings 

 were held during 1913. One field trip was taken by the Club members, 

 and there have been on the average two walks per week taken by in- 

 dividuals for study. During the past year a special study has been 

 made of biology and kindred subjects. The secretary is Miss Ethel W. 

 Robbins, 249 Church St., Burlington. 



The Burlington Nature Club was organized April 27, 1905, at an 

 informal meeting which followed a lecture by Prof. George H. Hudson 

 on "The Camera as an Aid to Nature Study." It was the desire of 

 several of the members of the State Bird and Botanical Clubs in form- 

 ing a local society to conserve and use some of the enthusiasm engen- 

 dered by the annual meetings and to arouse a general interest in the 

 community in nature subjects. 



The organization is as informal as possible. The officers consist 

 of a president and a secretary-treasurer. The only regular meeting is 

 the annual one on Arbor Day. There are no dues except the initial 

 membership fee of 25 cents. The plan of the Club has been to take 

 tramps under the leadership of some local nature student; to occasion- 

 ally take a more ambitious trip, as on one occasion it went by steamer 



