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members of the Society have had good results in feeding the birds about their 

 homes and have erected nesting-boxes. We have a wonderful area in our 

 vicinity called the Dundas Marsh. We are now trying to have this declared 

 a bird sanctuary by the Dominion and Provincial Governments. — (Miss) 

 Ruby R. Mills, Secretary. 



Hartford (Conn.) Bird Study Club. — We have about the usual activities 

 to report for the past year in spite of the trying conditions following the war. 

 There have been twenty-one indoor meetings devoted to different subjects all 

 of much interest to students of nature. There were three illustrated lectures in 

 the usual line, and for a special evening we were able to secure William L. 

 Finley, who showed, by means of his moving pictures, how wonderful an auto 

 trip through the mountains near Mt. Rainier could be. The lectures and read- 

 ings by members, a number of the former iinely illustrated by slides, were so 

 much enjoyed by the Club as to deserve a recording word of appreciation. 



Thirty-six Wood Ducks were reported seen on one evening and one pair of 

 Mallard Ducks were repeatedly seen in August. A nesting Pigeon Hawk and 

 also nesting Prairie Horned Larks were seen. A protest against the exploiting 

 of Yellowstone Park for commercial purposes v/as sent to all of the Connecticut 

 Senators and Representatives in response to a request from the National 

 Association. — Florence Newberry, Corresponding Secretary. 



Meriden (Conn.) Bird Club. — During the past year the evening meetings 

 in winter and summer hikes of the Meriden Bird Club have been planned as 

 usual. In May the State Federation of Bird and Nature Clubs met in our 

 Hubbard Park as guests of the Waterbury Club, which proved a most interest- 

 ing occasion. Our composite list of birds seen during the year amounts to about 

 140 species — two of them rare — a flock of fourteen Evening Grosbeaks seen 

 last March about Akron Street, and a pair of Little Blue Herons nesting at 

 Mount Higby Reservoir, with one young nestling seen in August. — (Miss) 

 Esther R. H.a.ll, Secretary. 



Meriden (N. H.) Bird Club. — Our most important work in 1920 was the 

 founding of our museum of bird conservation. Some years ago the Club bought 

 an interesting but dilapidated colonial house standing on ground which is now 

 a part of our Bird Sanctuary, and on September 25, 1920, the building, com- 

 pletely restored, was opened informally. People who visit it may learn what 

 can be done to attract birds to their own gardens, to private or public grounds 

 having the necessary natural conditions. In one room a visitor may see various 

 bird-houses and nesting-boxes; in another, feeding devices and the kinds of 

 food likely to attract different species of birds; in still another room, bird-baths 

 and models of bird-baths. Other features to be provided later will be plans of 

 the principal devices for bird-attracting apparatus, also models and plans for 



