4i8 Bird - Lore 



"Smith of Idaho" bill, which threatened to destroy the Yellowstone Park. — 

 Caroline C. Walbridge, Secretary. 



Scranton (Pa.) Bird Club. — A strenuous season marked the fifth year of 

 the life of our Club. The regular fall meeting was held September 21, 1919, at 

 Campbell's Ledge, about twelve miles from Scranton. In October, on Arbor 

 Day, a sale of perennial plants was held at the Everhart Museum. November 

 saw a vigorous fight waged by members of the Bird Club against the vicious 

 practice of live-bird trap-shooting. Early in December an Industrial Exposi- 

 tion, conducted by the Scranton Board of Trade, was held at the Armory. 

 Here the Bird Club occupied a booth for the entire week showing a winter 

 scene and featuring the feeding of winter birds, mounted specimens of which 

 were lent by Curator R. N. Davis of the Everhart Museum. January 3, the 

 used trees of the kindergartens were arranged in Nay Aug Park as shelters for 

 the birds and trimmed by Junior Members with bird-food. 



Beginning January 17, and continuing for six consecutive weeks, the Club 

 held a class in bird-study one hour each Saturday. This class was held at the 

 Everhart Museum in charge of Prof. R. N. Davis, other speakers including the 

 President of the Club, Rev. L. R. Foster, W. H. Scranton, and Game Warden 

 Anneman. One hundred and twelve enrolled for this class, the attendance 

 averaging fifty. In February we had a charming lecture by Edward Avis. A 

 Bird-naming Contest for Girl and Boy Scouts was held early in March at the 

 Everhart Museum and the annual Bird-House Competition followed in early 

 spring. Nearly 500 houses were made by the boys of the vicinity this year, 

 about 100 competing for prizes offered by the Club. Arbor Day in April was 

 celebrated by the planting of thirty evergreen trees for the birds in Nay Aug 

 Park by a troup of Girl Scouts. During May and June the noting of new arrivals 

 put everything else in the background, and on June 18 the city parks were 

 divided into sections and canvassed by teams for a regular bird census. — (Mrs.) 

 Francis Hopkinson Coffin, President. 



Seattle (Wash.) Audubon Society. — The Junior Audubon Societies have 

 increased their membership during the past year, and there has been an 

 increased demand for talks in the schools and Parent-Teachers' Clubs through- 

 out the city. The libraries have cooperated in every possible way, which has 

 made the work more effective. The National Association's leaflets have been 

 ordered and distributed through them in large quantities. The Main Library 

 had a glass case made for our use, and in it we keep a changing exhibit of bird 

 skins and pictures, according to the bird calender for each season. Through the 

 local papers, especially the Junior Post-Intelligencer, we have had more press 

 notices the past year and also are able to run an information bureau on birds 

 by telephone. Many questions are referred to us by the Seattle Times. The 

 taking of the bird census at Christmas-time has at last become an established 



