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widespread interest throughout the state in the well-being of birds, and 

 a valuable educational influence is constantly at work. The children are 

 being taught to observe bird -life about them, and find nests for themselves 

 for the purpose of seeing the growth of the little birds from the egg, and 

 such children will grow up with an appreciation of the valuable assistance 

 afforded to man by the bird family. 



"As a state, we seem to be continually in a condition of warfare. This 

 is a healthy condition, however, and the results each year have been such 

 as to make the workers feel that our efforts to protect such birds as the 

 Flicker, Mourning Dove, Robin and Meadowlark, have not been in vain. 

 We feel that the many appeals to the press of the state, and the numerous 

 letters sent to our representatives at Trenton, have borne some fruit. 



A serious effort was made last January to distribute some of the valu- 

 able Educational Leaflets of the National Association among the farmers of 

 the state, opportunity being taken to send over two thousand of these 

 leaflets to the leaders of the various granges to distribute at their yearly 

 meetings. Very interesting responses were received from some of these 

 farmers, and let us hope that in the future the Hawks and Owls will receive 

 a little more consideration from those individuals whose property they 

 protect." — Miss Julia S. Scribner, Secretary. 



New York. — " The New York Audubon Society has had a normal in- 

 crease of members, but no remarkable growth, since the last report. The 

 present membership is 8,345. 



' The renewed attempt to repeal the Anti-Spring Duck Shooting law, 

 the introduction of the Foreign Game bill, and several bills of less impor- 

 tance, were met by the usual vigorous action of our Law Committee. Mr. 

 Dutcher; Mr. Chapman, representing the American Museum of Natural 

 History; Dr. Palmer, of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. Field, of 

 Massachusetts, attended hearings at Albany in behalf of the Society. Their 

 united efforts, together with the cooperation of prominent members of the 

 Society throughout the state, were successful and the law was maintained. 

 ' This year, for the first time, the Society has published an Annual 

 Report; a new edition of the prospectus, and an edition of ten thousand 

 law posters in English and Italian have been issued. Three thousand copies 

 of each of the Educational Leaflets of the National Association were dis- 

 tributed as soon as published. Several thousand postal cards, 'Feed the Birds 

 in Cold Weather,' have been purchased from the Providence Humane So- 

 ciety, to be put into circulation this fall. During the year over thirty-seven 

 thousand leaflets and law posters have been distributed. Six thousand leaf- 

 lets, besides many colored plates of the Educational Series of the National 

 Association, were sent to the state fair at Syracuse. By request, six hun- 

 dred leaflets were recently sent for distribution at the convention of the 



