Clje &utiubon Societies 



EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT 



Edited by WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Address all correspondence, and send all remittances for dues and contributions, to 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies, 141 Broadway, New York City 



Notice of the Annual Meeting of the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies 



The annual meeting of the members of 

 the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds 

 and Animals, for the election of six direc- 

 tors, to take the place of the following di- 

 rectors, viz., Abbott H. Thayer, Mrs. C. 

 •Grant La Farge, John E. Thayer, Frank 

 M. Miller, Theodore S. Palmer and 

 Ruthven Deane, Class of 1908, whose 

 terms of office will then expire, and for 

 the transaction of such other business as 

 may properly come before the meeting, 

 will be held at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, Columbus avenue and 

 Seventy-seventh street, in the Borough of 

 Manhattan and City of New York, on 

 the twenty-seventh day of October, nine- 

 teen hundred and eight, at two o'clock, 

 p. m. At the close of the business meeting, 

 Mr. William L. Finley, our northwest 

 field agent, the well-known explorer and 

 nature photographer, will give an illus- 

 trated lecture on the results of his summer 

 work, entitled " On the Trail of the Plume- 

 Hunters." — T. Gilbert Pearson, Sec- 

 retary. 



lepsch, at the experimental station at 

 Seebach, in the district of Langensalza, 

 in Thuringia, the ancestral castle of the 

 Berlepsch family since the twelfth cen- 

 tury. The area used for experiments com- 

 prises about five hundred acres, of which 

 nineteen acres are park, sixty acres are 

 thickets (poplar and willow plantations), 

 and four hundred acres are wood. 



The methods used by Baron von Ber- 

 lepsch for many years, and the successful 

 results attained, are of such great value 

 and of so great interest that the publica- 

 tion should be in the hands of every bird- 

 lover in this country. The publication 

 contains many cuts of bird-boxes, feeding- 

 places, shelter-woods, and other hints 

 of value. 



The Association has sent an order to 

 Germany for a complete outfit of nesting- 

 boxes of various sizes and shapes, and also 

 of food-sticks, food-houses and food-bells. 

 It is hoped that these will arrive in time 

 to be exhibited at the annual meeting of 

 the Society, in October. As soon as Messrs. 

 Witherby & Company, of London, the 

 publishers, have the book ready for de- 

 livery, it will be on sale at the office of 

 the National Association in New York. 



A Valuable Book 



The Association has received an ad- 

 vance copy of "How to Attract and Pro- 

 tect Wild Birds — A Full Description of 

 Successful Methods," by Martin Hiese- 

 mann, translated by Emma S. Buchheim, 

 with an introduction by Her Grace the 

 Duchess of Bedford, President of the Royal 

 Society for the Protection of Birds. This 

 publication is a translation into English 

 of the German work, which describes 

 the methods devised by Baron von Ber- 



What Birds Will Nest in Houses 



The undersigned takes this opportunity 

 to thank those who have responded to 

 his request, in a previous issue of Bird- 

 Lore, for experience in attracting birds 

 around houses, for use in the preparation 

 of a pamphlet on this subject for the Au- 

 dubon Society. He makes one more re- 

 quest regarding a special point. In this 

 connection. He has found only one record 

 of each of the following species nesting 

 in bird-houses, — Screech Owl, Carolina 



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