﻿270 Bird - Lore 



tection of our wild or Band-tailed Pigeon. This should be brought about 

 immediately before this bird of the West follows the Passenger Pigeon of 

 the East and becomes almost extinct. This bird, although one of our best 

 game-birds, has not even the protection of the game laws. Hunters slaughter 

 great numbers of the birds in the midst of the breeding season, when fully 

 developed eggs are still in the bodies, and when the birds have young. In 

 the midst of the breeding season, when the weather is hot, it is a habit of 

 these birds to come from miles and gather about some watering-place to 

 drink. It is a custom among many hunters to lie hidden at such places and 

 shoot the birds as they come and go. Here it is no trick to kill a hundred 

 Pigeons in a short time, and leave perhaps as many young birds to starve 

 in the nest." — Dr. Emma J. WELTY, Corresponding Secretary. 



Pennsylvania. — "The Pennsylvania Audubon Society has suffered an 

 irretrievable loss during the year in the death of its secretary, Mrs. Edward 

 Robins. It has been impossible as yet to arrange for the continuance of the 

 work of the Society, but steps toward this will be taken early in the autumn. 

 Mrs. Robins' illness during the early part of the year prevented any new de- 

 partures in the activities of the Society, and our work was simply that of 

 enrolling members, distributing literature and answering correspondence 

 relative to bird protection and bird study." — WlTMER Stone, President. 



Western Pennsylvania. — " The Western Pennsylvania Audubon So- 

 ciety was organized in March, 1904, and has since made good progress. Its 

 membership this year has increased from 49 to 262 and is chiefly devoted 

 to impressing the younger generation with a sense of the value of bird-life. 

 The giving of Audubon buttons to school children has aroused their interest 

 in the Society's work, because they want to know "Why?" The Society's 

 membership includes police and press officials who are personally interested 

 in its welfare, hence the repression of illegitimate shooting and the full pub- 

 licity of prosecutions for such offences. The Society publishes suitable 

 literature in prose and poetry, and encloses copies of its selections in com- 

 munications to outsiders. 



Meetings are held the second Wednesday in each month and are at- 

 tended mostly by ladies who have the time, means and desire for furthering 

 the bird cause. They denounce bird millinery. This year the Society has 

 caused to be erected a number of Wren and Martin houses, also many 

 cocoanut nests. The Society has secured the cooperation of the local gun 

 club in protecting wild birds, and members of the latter occasionally attend 

 the monthly meetings. 



' The burgess of Wilkinsburg is in sympathy with the movement and 

 grants the Society the free use of the borough police court, now its estab- 

 lished headquarters. Mr. C. Leon Brumbaugh, president of the Burroughs 



