442 Bird - Lore 



REPORTS OF AFFILIATED STATE SOCIETIES, 

 AND OF BIRD CLUBS 



California Audubon Society. — This Society held its tenth annual meet- 

 ing last June. Our Secretary, knowing that she could not personally reach all 

 the organizations wishing bird-programs, wrote two lectures, illustrating one 

 with colored pictures of birds, and the other with stereopticon slides. These 

 lectures were extensively used throughout the state, five clubs in the north 

 using them in March. Mrs. Myers visited San Diego and gave lectures before 

 the Humane Educational League, the schools, and at a reception given her 

 by the Woman's Board of Managers of the Exposition. She also gave a lec- 

 ture at Escondido. 



Mrs. R. C. Hogue, of San Diego, has lately prepared twelve sets of 

 bird-pictures to be used this year in her city, suburban, and county schools. 

 The County Librarian is also furnishing three pictures, mounted and bound in 

 volumes, for the county schools, she having ten stations in the county. In 

 Tuolumne County, Mrs. Adele L. Grant has been speaking before farmers' 

 and teachers' institutes, and writing articles for the newspapers of that dis- 

 trict. Last year Dr. George Wharton James used about sixty of our slides at 

 the San Francisco Exposition, and this year has been using them with great 

 success at the San Diego Exposition. In the south the same faithful workers 

 are doing lecture-work. Several new Junior Societies have been organized. 



This year, in addition to ordinary leaflets sent out, we have published one 

 on licensing cats, and we are working for this measure. Pasadena is the first 

 California city to have a cat-license ordinance. We have taken action on the 

 following national issues: The treaty between Canada and the United States; 

 protests against spring-shooting in any of the states, and against draining 

 Malheur Lake in southeastern Oregon; and advocating game-sanctuaries. 

 We have just issued an attractive sticker-stamp which shows a Phainopepla 

 in flight between branches of a pepper tree. 



We have sustained a great loss in the death of our Vice-President, Charles 

 Frederick Holder. Professor Holder worked hard for the non-sale-of-game bill 

 in this state, even though at that time he was not well. His advice and efforts 

 have been greatly missed. An honor has come to the Society in the election of 

 its secretary to the Chairmanship of Birds of the General Federation of 

 Women's Clubs. — (Mrs.) Harriet Williams Myers, Secretary. 



Colorado Audubon Society. — This Society was organized in May, 1913^ 

 was incorporated the same year, and affiliated with the National Association 

 of Audubon Societies in 1916. During the past year much attention has been 

 given to the Junior work. Lectures illustrated by slides, photographs, and 

 magazine prints, mounted birds and skins, have been given to teachers and 



