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Bird - Lore 



Board of Education and distributed in the 

 schools. This seems a good way to familiar- 

 ize children not only with birds, but with 

 animals, minerals, and with all nature sub- 

 jects. Our society has contributed the usual 

 amount to the Thayer fund. At present our 

 interest is to have the state laws of recent 

 date translated into Hungarian and Italian: 

 these translations are now being printed in 

 large type, to be posted in localities in our 

 state where these people live, as we believe 

 it is through ignorance of our laws that they 

 kill so many of our song-birds for food. We 

 may also send the laws to be printed in 

 their own newspapers, which reach all the 

 families. 



Our Executive Committee has held eight 

 meetings this year, with an attendance of 

 from five to fourteen members. We have 

 had the secretary of our State Board of Edu- 

 cation with us at some meetings, and his 

 suggestions we find of much help in the 

 work. — Mrs. W. B. Glover, Secretary. 



Indiana 



The work of the Indiana Audubon So- 

 ciety has been largely educational for the 

 past year. New societies have been organ- 

 ized, and especial emphasis has been placed 

 on the work with and for the children. 

 The society assisted the State Superinten- 

 dent of Public Instruction in getting matter 

 for the 'Bird Day Annual,' which goes 

 into the hands of all the teachers of the 

 state, and is really a bird manual for teach- 

 ers and pupils, in many cases. 



The press of the state has most cordially 

 cooperated with the society, and over three 

 thousand bird buttons have been given out 

 this year to school children in the state. 

 These buttons are contributed by the In- 

 dianapolis ' News,' and each child receiving 

 one signs a simple bird pledge and becomes 

 usually a worker for and friend of the birds. 



In many of the schools, bird talks have 

 been given under the auspices of the society, 

 and the children all over the state are inter- 

 ested, many of them planning to feed the 

 birds this winter. 



The bird-law of the state was modified 

 at the last session of the legislature, making 

 it possible to prevent the trapping of native 



birds, and forbidding the sale of native 

 wild birds. Thus we have been able to get 

 after two wrongs, — the trapping of birds, 

 especially cardinals, and the sale of all na- 

 tive wild birds in the bird stores. 



Prosecutions of dealers who had Quail in 

 cold storage last spring served notice on 

 them that the law was "loaded," and, 

 though they got off with fines of $400 each, 

 they learned their lesson, and are not tak- 

 ing any chances now. — Florence A. 

 Howe, Secretary. 



Texas 



The bird- and game-law of 1903 re- 

 mains unchanged, and is enforced as to 

 game-birds and animals, but violated over 

 three-fourths of the state as to birds gen- 

 erally. Plume-hunters operated on the 

 Texas coast this year. 



Lectures have been delivered by Professor 

 H. P. Attwater. Mrs. Cardenas and the 

 secretary of the Texas Audubon Society. 



Over 10,000 cloth warnings have been 

 posted. 



Our best work has been done through 

 the newspapers, a large volume of miscel- 

 laneous bird-protection matter having been 

 prepared here and at Houston, which was 

 used by the dailies and weeklies, often with 

 displayed head-lines and endorsements 

 editorially. — M. B. Davis, Secretary. 



A Vicious Bill 



When the few persons interested in the 

 traffic in foreign game in New York State 

 found they could not legally continue their 

 sales during the closed season (see decision 

 of Court of Appeals, p. 72), they immedi- 

 ately procured the introduction of a bill in 

 the legislature to legalize the sale of Euro- 

 pean Black Cock, Rebhuhner, Redleg, 

 Lapwing, Egyptian Quail and Hazel Hens. 

 This bill should not pass, as it is special 

 legislation of the worst character, and also 

 because it will only be a cloak for the sale 

 of native game. The Audubon and allied 

 societies are determined to defeat this most 

 vicious attempt to evade the game laws. 

 There ne-ver ixjill be perfect protection un- 

 til all sale of game is prohibited. — W. D. 



