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and the Sooty or Blue Grouse were very much unafraid of man and it was no 

 trick to get close enough for good pictures. 



Our last field trip of the summer was along the Oregon coast at Netarts 

 Bay, near Three Arch Rocks Reservation, where we made a study of some of 

 the migrating shore-birds and took motion pictures of them. As a total for 

 the summer's work, we have exposed nearly twenty thousand feet of motion 

 picture negative, which, with a large amount of negative taken previously, 

 will be used for educational work, not only in this country, but in all parts of 

 the world, under the auspices of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 



REPORT OF EUGENE SWOPE, FIELD AGENT FOR OHIO 



No progressive or retrogressive legislation affecting wild life in Ohio was 

 enacted the past year, but newspaper rumor says that the State Game Com- 

 mission intends attempting this winter to restore the Quail (Colinus virginianus) 

 to the hunter. The Commission claims that since the Quail is a protected bird 

 in Ohio, it (the Commission) cannot legally use funds for feeding these birds 

 in the winter, and because it does not feed the birds the species is starving out. 



Farmers, the closest neighbor to the Quail, claim the bird's numbers have 

 greatly increased since there are no open seasons. Also that the farmers are 

 the ones who really, truly look after the birds in the winter. This one thing your 

 agent knows for a certainty: There is an ever-increasing number of farmers 

 who take pride in their Quails, and who are becoming more and more alert 

 and solicitous in their protection. 



The result of the year's Junior work has been published in Bird-Lore 

 and speaks for itself. It was a year of much concern as to what the outcome 

 would be. It seemed that Massachusetts was going to be a hard one to beat. 

 There is a constantly growing interest in bird-study in Ohio and an increasing 

 public confidence in the Association as a dependable power on the side of bird- 

 conserv^ation. Your agent, as usual, lectured throughout the state and con- 

 ducted much correspondence. 



REPORT OF HERBERT K. JOB, DEPARTMENT OF 

 APPLIED ORNITHOLOGY 



The work of the sixth year of this Department has consisted increasingly 

 in instruction through correspondence from all over the United States and 

 Canada with interested people desiring help in their local problems of attract- 

 ing or propagating wild birds. The bulletins of the Association on game-bird 

 propagation prove continually useful, and are in constant demand. Public 

 lectures of late have been more called for than for several years past, and have 

 been given quite widely in eastern and middle districts. These were usually 

 made an opportunity for personal conferences with people in the vicinity 



