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" You cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul, 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street, Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



New Jersey .,., ..Miss Julia Scribner, 510 E. Front street, Plainfield, N. J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore Place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Virginia Mrs. Frederick E. Town, Glencarlyn. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Missouri August Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave„ Cincinnati. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Madison. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C C. Conner, Ripley. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



A Midwinter Meditation camera supp i anting the - n; but just how 



Within the past dozen years the position far this is effective remains to be proved, 

 of the song bird in the community has un- One would think that this change should 

 dergone a radical change, from being a tar- rob investigation of well-nigh all its dangers 

 get for any and every gun, a prisoner for any- at least as far as concerns the bird, but I am 

 one who would cage it, empaled on skewers convinced it is oftentimes quite the reverse, 

 for pan and hat alike, its eggs the acknowl- The miscellaneous collecting of eggs and 

 edged perquisite of every biped who chose the skins of song-birds in their attractive 

 to collect, it is today accorded a place as a nesting plumage should of course be pro- 

 citizen of the commonwealth and laws are hibited, but not more vehemently than cer- 

 being continually enacted that, if carried tain methods of gunless bird-study — I refer 

 out, would afford all the protection possible to the harrying of nesting birds in order to 

 in a country whose material growth is con- watch, and photograph perhaps, the various 

 tinually absorbing open common, woodland processes of incubation and nutrition; also 

 and river front. the careless method of interesting children 



With the change of sentiment has come a in watching and even handling nestlings to 



like change in the methods of bird -study. the point of driving parents to leave the 



The work of the analytic ornithologist is nest without giving a thought to the rights 



justly respected as of old, but the trend is of the birds in the matter, 

 toward the study of the living bird, the The conscientious student who builds a 



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