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new members, including as an honorary member, the Governor of our state. 

 A pubHc lecture by Herbert K. Job, a lecturer of the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies, drew a large and enthusiastic audience. Our President, 

 Mr. Kavanaugh, gave several books as prizes for the best nature work done by 

 pupils in the public schools, and also gave books as prizes for the best lists of 

 birds seen by Club members from January to June. We had a guest night in 

 November, with Arthur H. Norton, of Portland, as speaker. We have corre- 

 sponding members in other towns. We are fortunate in having as Club For- 

 ester a graduate of the Harvard School of Forestry, while the services of a state 

 game warden, one of our active members, is invaluable. 



In April we had our first exhibit, which filled the Auburn Chamber of 

 Commerce rooms. There were bird-houses made by members, feeding and 

 bathing devices, cat-guards, a sparrow-trap, bird-nests, and many other things. 

 Mounted birds of special economic value, loaned by the college, fronted an 

 array of their enemies. The walls were hung with pictures of birds, game 

 laws, lists of birds seen by the Club individually and collectively, posters 

 relating to bird conservation, etc. Besides this there was a collection of native 

 shrubs, berries, and tree branches attractive to birds; a display of pamphlets, 

 books, and leaflets, relating to birds. Five-minute papers on 'Bringing Chil- 

 dren and Birds Together ' were read by our school-teacher members. On the 

 following day the exhibit was removed to Lewiston School, where it remained 

 a week and was seen by nearly a thousand .children from the public schools. 



Bird Day, this year, fell on April 8. In the early morning, fifty-four Juniors 

 and seniors followed the President of the Club on a bird- walk. Later in the day 

 hundreds of children in the public schools listened to talks on bird conservation 

 by speakers from the Bird Club. Nearly every school had special Bird-Day 

 exercises. The following week a morning bird-walk and picnic breakfast was 

 enjoyed. We are rapidly getting an increased interest in birds, a growing 

 membership, and an evident increase in the number of birds that are coming 

 into our streets and gardens. — (Mrs.) Daisy Dill Norton, Secretary. 



Staten Island (N. Y.) Bird Club. — In addition to further increasing its 

 membership (now 227), continuing its monthly bird- walks, its lectures in the 

 public museum and schools, and maintaining its winter feeding-stations, our 

 Club has made, during the past year, a strong effort to combat illegal shooting 

 on Staten Island. To this end, a petition asking for the enforcement of the 

 law prohibiting the use of firearms on the Island, signed by several hundred 

 citizens, was forwarded through the National Association of Audubon Societies 

 to the Conservation Commission and subsequently to the New York City 

 Police Department. It has resulted in renewed restrictions being sent to each 

 officer. Recently, in a case in Magistrate Court, the ofi&cers of the Club fur- 

 nished identification of the bird, a Green Heron, as an aid to the offender's 

 conviction. In several other instances, Mrs. Trench has furnished help to the 



