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game warden, and the Club's oflScers are now cooperating with the Police 

 Department by notification of violations of the law. 



The lectures given by the Staten Island Bird Club have included: 'Bird- 

 land,' by Edward Avis; 'Protection of Wild Animals and Birds,' by Herbert 

 K. Job; 'Wild Birds and How to Attract Them,' by Ernest Harold Baynes; 

 'Bird-Life along the Gulf Coast,' by T. Gilbert Pearson; 'Conserving the 

 Forests, Fish and Game of New York State,' by Clinton G. Abbott; and 

 ' Staten Island Birds, ' by Carol Stryker. The last named has been repeated in 

 several public schools and church affairs, and constitutes an introduction to 

 our birds.— Charles W. Leng, Secretary. 



Sussex County (N. J.) Nature-Study Club. — ^As the name of our organ- 

 ization implies, we are interested in the various phases of nature-work, but 

 birds hold first place. This year the especial efforts of the Club (numbering 

 twenty-five, and holding meetings once each month) have been devoted to 

 bringing to the attention of the public the danger of extinction of a number 

 of species of useful birds and urging the need of better protection. This has 

 been done largely by carefully prepared articles, pubhshed by the local press, 

 and results have been extremely gratifying, interest in the birds throughout the 

 county being greatly increased and stimulated. All communications of both 

 the National and State Audubon Associations are given prompt attention, 

 and, so far as possible, their suggestions are followed by the Club. — (Miss) 

 F. Blanche Hill, Secretary. 



Vigo County (Ind.) Bird Club. — During the year we tried to secure pohce 

 protection for the tow-path, a river fringe strip where birds come in great 

 numbers, especially during the season of migration. Our work was mainly 

 educational. In our regular meetings we studied Chapman's 'Bird Life,' or 

 went on field-trips. We obtained lantern-slides and gave illustrated lectures 

 on birds in five schools in the city. We had school children build bird-houses. 

 These were put on sale and the children given the full price received for the 

 houses. We are hoping to do greater things in the future for the protection of 

 our feathered and furred friends.- — (Miss) Sarah J. Elliott, Secretary. 



Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs. — ^The Bird Division of 

 the Conservation Department has sent out a letter to all the federated clubs 

 asking them to have at least one bird program during the year, to observe 

 Bird Day along with Arbor Day, to encourage the local bird authorities in 

 their effort to stimulate interest in bird neighbors and in the economic aspects 

 of this study. In connection with the Conservation Department, the Com- 

 mittee made a small exhibit at the State Fair, showing the protected birds 

 which the State Sportmen's Association was asking permission to shoot. The 

 protests of the clubwomen at the Wenatchee meeting evidently was effective 



