Annual Report of the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies for 1916 



CONTENTS 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY. 



Introduction. — Affiliated Societies. — Bird Clubs. — Junior Audubon So- 

 cieties. — Summer Schools. — Legislation. — Field Agents. — Warden 

 Work. — Lists of Wardens. — Miscellaneous Facts. — Finances. 



REPORTS OF FIELD AGENTS. 



Winthrop Packard. — Dr. Eugene Swope. — Miss Katharine H. Stuart. — 

 Mrs. W. T. Wilson. — William L. Finley. — Mrs. Mary S. Sage, Organ- 

 izer. — Herbert K. Job, Applied Ornithology. 



REPORTS OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES, AND OF BIRD CLUBS. 

 California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, East Ten- 

 nessee, Florida, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New 

 Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina. 

 AFFILIATED CLUBS: Beaver, Pa.; Long Island, N. Y.; Meriden, Conn.; 

 Brookline, Mass.; Budd Lake, N. J.; Buffalo, N. Y.; Cocoanut Grove, 

 Fla.; Columbus, Ohio; Cumberland, Md.; Doylestown, Pa.; Fitchburg, 

 Mass.; Forest Hills Gardens, N. Y.; Groton, Mass.; Hartford, Conn.; 

 Meriden, N. H.; Michigan City, Ind.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Rock Island, 

 III.; Rumson, N. J.; Seattle, Wash.; Sewickley, Pa.; Somerset Hills, N. 

 J.; Utica, N. Y.; Vassar College, N. Y.; Vermilion, S. D.; Washington 

 Federation; Watertown, N. Y.; Winston-Salem, N. C; Wyncote, Pa. 



REPORT OF THE TREASURER. 



LISTS OF MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS. 



Benefactor, Founder, and Patrons. — Life Members. — Annual Members 

 AND General Contributors. — Contributors to the Department of 

 Applied Ornithology. — Contributors to the Egret Fund. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY 



INTRODUCTION 



The movement for bird-protection as distinguished from game-protection 

 is rapidly becoming a mighty factor in our American hfe. Game-protection is 

 based in the last analysis on two principles, the one as a source of food-supply, 

 the other as recreational shooting. Both these are entirely legitimate, but are 

 readily perverted for selfish personal advantages whereby an individual or an 

 organization may secure an excessive portion of the public supply of useful 

 game-birds. Bird-protection rests on an entirely different foundation. It 

 seeks to preserve and increase the wild bird-life for its economic value to the 

 trees, the flowers, and the crops. It wants to fill the lawns, gardens, and forests 

 with song and beauty, and thus add to the esthetic influences of human life. 

 It seeks ever to build up and not to destroy, to teach a softening and not a 

 hardening of man's feelings, to give hfe rather than to take life. 



While recognizing the gains in human strength and pecuniary profit 

 accruing from field-sports with dogs and gun, and while never seeking to cur- 

 tail these, unless some hunted species is threatened with undue depletion in 



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