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Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Crested 

 Flycatcher, and no record of any of the 

 Woodpeckers or Nuthatches using arti- 

 ficial houses for nesting. The undersigned 

 will be very grateful to hear from any one 

 who has had any experiences with the 

 nesting of any of these birds around their 

 homes. — Gtlbert H. Trafton, Clifton, 

 N. J. 



Protection for Snowy Herons 



The very important discovery made by 

 Mr. Herbert R. Sass, that the Snowy Heron 

 had reestablished itself in South Carolina, 

 as reported on pages 160-162 of the cur- 



GREAT BLUE HERON 



Flashlight by Wetmore Hodges, on Conway Lake, 



Mich. 



rent volume of Bird-Lore, will entail 

 upon this Association a very considerable 

 expense, which will have to be provided 

 for before the breeding season of 1909. 

 While the problem of safeguarding these 

 two important colonies will not be a diffi- 

 cult one, yet it will necessitate a consider- 

 able expenditure of money, as it will be 

 necessary to either lease the breeding 

 grounds or purchase them. The Federal 

 Government does not own any land in 

 the thirteen original states, and, therefore, 

 cannot make reservations in any of them. 

 In addition to the amount necessary for 

 purchase or rental, it will also be necessary 



for us to employ two wardens, as the 

 colonies are so far apart that one warden 

 cannot give them proper protection. Is 

 there not some member of the Association 

 or some reader of Bird-Lore who will 

 be willing to furnish the funds needed 

 for purchase, rental and care ? The num- 

 bers of Snowy Herons that are still left 

 in the United States is so small that it 

 is extremely important that each of the 

 few scattered colonies that remain shall 

 receive the most careful protection possible. 

 — W. D. 



A New Audubon Society 



On August 11, 1908, a meeting was held 

 at Wichita, Kansas, of representative 

 business and professional men and women, 

 for the purpose of organizing an Audubon 

 Society in the state of Kansas. 



A committee on constitution and by- 

 laws was appointed, and Mr. Richard E. 

 Sullivan, of the United States Weather 

 Bureau, was elected president, and Mr. 

 Frank E. McMullen, secretary. 



The organization of this society closes 

 up a gap in our map showing states hav- 

 ing Audubon Societies, and we trust that, 

 before the end of the next legislative ses- 

 sion in Kansas, we shall be able to report 

 that this state also has adopted the model 

 law protecting non-game birds. 



Progress in South Dakota 



For the first time in years, the birds upon 

 the Federal reservations of South Dakota 

 have had a chance to rear their young. 

 At the request of Charles E. Holmes, 

 President of the South Dakota Audubon 

 Society, President Roosevelt issued, June 

 11, 1908, the following regulations gov- 

 erning the killing or taking of song- or 

 game-birds on all of the reservations in 

 the state: 



" Under the authority conferred by sec- 

 tion 463 of the Revised Statutes of the 

 United States, the following regulations 

 to govern the killing or taking of song- or 

 game-birds within the limits of the Lower 

 Brule, Crow Creek, Standing Rock and 



