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Bird- Lore 



enough money to buy books about birds, flowers, moths, and butterflies, which 

 were presented to the Free Library; and we joined the Audubon Association, 

 from which affihation we are expecting to derive a great deal of benefit. 



Next month we are to have a lecture by George L. Fordyce, of Youngs- 

 town, with innumerable slides, and in the following month one by Dr. W. J. 

 Holland, director of the Carnegie Museum. Last winter, owing to the bad 

 weather, only one member had the courage to go out for the Christmas Bird- 



A WINTER BIRD-SHELTER AND FEEDING-STATION BUILT AND MAINTAINED BY 

 THE BEAVER (PA.) FIELD AND AUDUBON CLUB 



Census, making a record of 253 birds of nine species. The flower-recorder 

 has 196 species of flowers collected, analyzed, and classified this season. — 

 CoEA French Boulton, President. 



Bird Club of Long Island (N. Y.). — Since the organization of the Bird 

 Club of Long Island on May 14, 1915, at the residence of Col. Theodore Roose- 

 velt, at Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, much has been accomplished in the effort 

 to protect bird-life by the practice of such methods as have been recommended 

 for its preservation and care ; and there appears to be no doubt that a work of 

 great importance has been performed by the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, with the zealous and earnest cooperation of the various clubs affil- 

 iated with it throughout the country. This on Long Island has certainly 

 resulted in a noticeable increase in the number of our song-birds, particularly 

 in our own immediate neighborhood, and may therefore indicate that the 

 movement in this vicinity, at least, has not only aroused popular interest, but 

 has already been productive of much benefit, not only by the distribution of 



