Ci)e ^uijubon ^otittit& 



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

 Nor yet the wild bird's S07ig^." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of tlie 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 depart- 

 ment 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. 



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 Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford Ave., Plainfield, N. J. 



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



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



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



Maryland! ■ Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul Street, Baltimore. 



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



Florida Mrs. C. F. Dommerich, Maitland. 



qj^Jq " Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern .Ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana Amos W. Butler, State House, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



iQ^^ Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Pkckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Mrs. J. P. Elmer, 314 West Third street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Xexas Miss Cecile Seixas, 2008 Thirty-ninth street, Galveston. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Bird Protection and the Merchant than Game Birds.' This pamphlet of 



Milliners nearly one hundred pages, written by 



T. S Palmer under the direction of Dr. 



This year is full of significance in Merriam, gives all existing laws, so that 



matters relating to bird protection, and it may be seen at a glance in what States, 



a new impulse seems sweeping over the or counties of a given State, bird laws 



country regarding the entire matter. are either absent, defective, or efficient. 



Moreover, the increased interest is trace- A thorough reading of this summary is 



able to perfectly sound and reasonable sure to bring about much State legislation 



thinking, brought about by the increase as well as lead to national cohesion, 



of nature-study and the systematic circu- for, as the introduction says, 'The pro- 



lation of the accepted and indisputable tection of birds is a national, not a local, 



facts concerning the relations between question.' 



birds and agriculture, as well as the The history of legislative protection is 



attention attracted by protective legis- briefly given, beginning in 1791, when 



lalion. New York enacted a law protecting Heath 



To bear out this latter statement, I Hens, and ending with the text of the Lacey 



would ask every officer of an Audubon Bill, which became a law in May last. 



Society to read Bulletin No. 12 of the This bill gives wide discretionary powers 



U. S. Department of Agriculture, Divi- to the Department of Agriculture, and 



sion of Biological Survey, entitled ' Legis- is of the greatest importance, 



lation for the Protection of Birds Other Another matter, formulated, doubtless, 



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