Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 469 



that were hoped for, but a fair number of the private boxes were nested in. 

 The second season showed an increased number of native birds using the Club 

 boxes. Certain individuals who had gone ahead with their own boxes inde- 

 pendently of the Club had marked success in attracting the birds to them. 



Other activities of the Club have included going on record in favor of the 

 bill to provide for the licensing of cats, and calling this fact to the attention 

 of our Senator and Representative; and securing the appointment of a local 

 fish-and-game warden at the nominal salary of $50 a year, under the pro- 

 visions of a recent law. The Club has also installed a cement bird-bath and 

 a feeding-station on the Common, in front of the Unitarian Church. Many 

 birds used it last summer. 



As before stated, the of&cers of the Club feel that its most important work 

 has been among the children, nearly 100 of whom hold Junior memberships. 

 They have formed their own organization, with duly elected officers, and now 

 pay annual dues into their own treasury. They have thus provided themselves 

 with Club buttons, paid for the use of their meeting-places during cold weather, 

 and met other necessary expenses, with some help from the parent Club. Prizes 

 offered by an anonymous benefactor have served greatly to stimulate obser- 

 vation and study of birds by the children; and sums contributed from time 

 to time by others have made possible small entertainments, which have 

 proved important in stimulating the interest of the children in their 

 organization. 



All the meetings of the Club are fully reported in the local papers, and in 

 this way its activities are kept constantly before the public. It is believed that 

 this pubhcity has great value in furthering the objects for which the Club is 

 striving. The editors have generously given any space required, from a small 

 paragraph to a column and a half; and as a result of their interest and good 

 will the doings of the Club have come to the attention of persons in all the 

 neighboring towns, and have been mentioned in at least one of the prominent 

 farm journals. The New England Homestead. Thus the leaven, we hope, is 

 working even outside the normal sphere of influence. — William P. Whar- 

 ton, President. 



Hartford (Conn.) Bird-Study Club. — The seventh year of our Club 

 (organized May 18, 1909) has been very successful in the amount of progressive 

 work accomplished and the public interest aroused in bird-study and pro- 

 tection. 



During the last year the work of our Educational Committee advanced 

 beyond its infant stage, as bird-lectures, illustrated by mounted specimens, 

 were delivered to more than 700 school-children in Hartford County. This 

 year the Committee has been enlarged from five to twelve members, and its 

 work as planned has advanced to an adult stage. This year three lectures on 

 birds will be given to the sixth-grade pupils in the Hartford schools. Forty- 



