5o8 Bird - Lore 



tuary was visited. This is a bird-reservation of ten acres, near the center of 

 Fairfield, presented to the Society by a friend whose name is not made public. 

 It is surrounded by a wire, cat-proof fence. A small pond of fresh water adds 

 to its attractions for the birds, and a bungalow has been built for the resident 

 caretaker. On the gate-posts are suitable inscriptions. This is to be a per- 

 petual refuge for birds, and will grow more beautiful as it is developed. It is 

 open to the public under certain restrictions on Tuesdays, Thursdays, Satur- 

 days, and Sundays. — Katherine Moody Spalding, Secretary. 



District of Columbia. — Judge Barnard is still our President, and we have 

 three new honorary Vice-presidents — President Woodrow Wilson, Mrs. 

 Josephine Daniels, and Prof. Ernest Thurston, our new Superintendent of 

 Schools. At our annual meeting we had the pleasure of hearing Howard H. 

 Cleaves, who gave us an illustrated lecture. On another evening Prof. Paul 

 Bartsch told us about "Some Birds of the Pacific Coast." 



Our spring bird-classes are held in one of the large public schools, thus 

 helping the civic plan for using school-buildings as social centers. Our classes 

 in the spring of 1914 had a total membership of 132, of whom 31 were teachers, 

 13 Camp Fire Girls, and 14 Boy Scouts. These classes were followed by six 

 splendid field-meetings, during which a total of 127 different species of birds 

 were seen and reccfrded by the 97 persons who joined in the walks. — Helen 

 P. Childs, Secretary. 



Florida. — During the past year the interest in bird-protection has steadily 

 advanced in Florida. The thirteenth annual meeting was held at the resi- 

 dence of President William F. Blackman, in Winter Park, March 3, 1914. In 

 addition to the reports of the officers, addresses were made, letters read, and 

 officers elected. It was shown that the volume of work is steadily increasing. 

 More than 30,000 leaflets have been sent out by the Secretary, besides notices 

 and literature. Early in the year an active part was taken in support of the 

 "feather proviso" pending in the tariff bill. 



Cooperating with the National Association, 162 Junior Classes, with a mem- 

 bership of 3,426, were organized, which placed Florida first on the list of 

 Southern States. The prize of $10, offered to high-school pupils in the state 

 for essays on birds, was awarded to Miss Efiie Rolfs, of Gainesville. A second 

 prize, Chapman's "Birds of Eastern North America," was given to Miss 

 Jeanette Hopson, of the Duval High School, Jacksonville. Similar prizes were 

 offered to Clearwater schools by Oscar E. Baynard. At the state fair in 

 Orlando an attractive Audubon booth was arranged by Mrs. Haden and Mrs. 

 Vanderpool, where information as to the work of the Society was circulated by 

 means of leaflets and pictures. Many copies of the new booklet of the Florida 

 game-laws also were distributed. 



Dr. Eugene Swope, of Cincinnati, Ohio, was employed as field agent for 



