376 Bird -Lore 



Cocoanut Grove (Fla.) Audubon Society. — We can report more birds this 

 year than ever, and less shooting of game-birds out of season. The Society will 

 this year try to make a chain of bird sanctuaries through the county. Already 

 Cocoanut Grove, Silver Bluff, Miami, and Miami Beach are officially bird 

 sanctuaries, as are also many large private estates and the Royal Palm State 

 Park. The Cocoanut Grove Library Association has added a large room to the 

 Library which we will use as a meeting-place and which will be known as 

 ' Audubon Hall. ' A scrapbook of ' War Birds ' has been compiled by one of the 

 members. 



The Society has no debts, a good bank balance, a large membership, and a 

 library of bird books. Interesting programs are being prepared for the season's 

 meetings, which begin in November. Members of the Society have been making 

 notes concerning our summer birds' doings, including the activities of a pair of 

 Mockingbirds that built and raised a brood in August. Three were hatched, 

 but only two survived the first three days out of the nest. Both promise well. — 

 (Mrs.) Kirk Munroe, President. 



Columbus (Ohio) Audubon Society. — Only three pubhc meetings have been 

 held during the year. The annual meeting of the Society in October, after the 

 preliminary business was transacted, was addressed by Mrs. Denig Tower, of 

 Boston. Mrs. Tower, who has been wonderfully successful in attracting birds 

 about her summer home at Port Clyde, Maine, has the faculty of giving ' close- 

 up ' pictures of these experiences. In December, ' Bird-Life in Motion Pictures ' 

 was shown by Norman McClintock, of Pittsburgh. 'Ever Watch a Bird 

 Think?' was the way a newspaper put Mr. McClintock's description of the 

 picture of a bird rearranging her nest after it had been disturbed. A collection 

 of 600 mounted birds were given to the Society, which, in turn, placed them in 

 the hands of the Supervisor of Nature-Study in the public schools. Forty of 

 these, in individual boxes, are circulated among the pupils; the others are on 

 permanent exhibit. 



In March, E. S. Thomas lectured at the Public Library, showing pictures of 

 the birds to be found in March, creating much interest as the field-trips were 

 just beginning. These trips were kept up each Saturday until June. Many 

 Boy Scouts joined the Society to go on these trips. On one particular morning, 

 starting at 5.30, the members watched the birds getting their breakfast and 

 then adjourned to the house of a fellow member where they were treated to 

 a breakfast. Besides the money spent on caring for the mounted birds and 

 for lecturer's fees, $5 was sent to the John Burroughs Memorial Association 

 and $5 contributed by individual members toward the leaflets printed by the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies.— (Miss) Lucy B. Stone, Secretary. 



Crawfordsville (Ind.) Audubon and Nature-Study Club. — Beginning with 

 the advent of the first Robin and the first pair of Bluebirds in the garden on St. 



