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Bird-Lore 



Adventures of a Robin.' During the fall 

 months there was some demand for the 

 lectures, but with spring came more appli- 

 cations, and from then till now they have 

 been in almost constant use. The com- 

 mittee has made an effort to have the 

 Farmers' Lecture used in the granges 

 throughout the state, and though a num- 

 ber have had them, still not so many as 

 the number of granges would warrant. 

 The schools have responded largely to 

 notices sent to them in regard to the 

 lectures, and for Bird and Arbor Day 

 there were twenty applications for them. 

 Lecture No. II, 'Birds about Home,' 

 has been used fifty-two times, while the 

 Farmer's Lecture has been used fifteen 

 times, and Lecture No. Ill sixteen times, 

 making in all eighty-three times. Success 

 has been obtained by a local secretary 

 keeping a lecture a number of weeks, and 

 taking it to the different schools in the 

 neighborhood. The children were much 

 interested, and a number joined the 

 society as a result. A number of most 

 appreciative letters have been received, 

 and there seems no doubt that the lec- 

 tures have done great good in arousing 

 interest in the cause for which the Audu- 

 bon Society is working — the protection of 

 birds." 



The Audubon Societies at the General 

 Federation cf Women's Club% 



Through the enterprise of the Wiscon- 

 sin Society, Miss Mira Lloyd Dock was 

 secured to speak upon Bird-Protection June 

 8, at the General Federation of Women's 

 Clubs then in session in Milwaukee. Miss 

 Dock took ' The Quality of Mercy ' as her 

 text, and through it appealed to a represen- 

 tative audience of women from every part 

 of the countr}-. She handled the subject 

 in a way that showed a thoroughly trained 

 and logical mind. The work of the Audu- 

 bon Societies was presented not as an iso- 

 lated affair, not as a fad, but in its relation 

 to all the other movements of the age that 



make for righteousness, in the way of les- 

 sening the amount of suffering among men 

 and animals. 



A leaflet containing a list of the Societies 

 for Bird-Protection at home and abroad, 

 and various notes of interest was distri- 

 buted at the meeting, w-hich cannot fail of 

 doing widespread good. The State Socie- 

 ties contributing toward the expenses of 

 this lecture were New Hampshire, Massa- 

 chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New 

 York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Wisconsin 

 and Ohio. 



A Welcome Superstition 



Mr. Ernest Seton-Thompson writes us 

 from abroad of a growing superstition in 

 Paris against the wearing of 'aigrettes,' 

 which, with characteristic originality, he 

 voices in rh)'me, as follows : 



The Dames of France no longer wear 

 The plumes they used to prize : 



They find that Aigrettes in the hair 

 Brings crows' feet in the eyes. 



E. S-T. 



A Remarkable Bonnet 



The observing ornithologist nowadays 

 often make interesting discoveries in 

 the befeathered monstrosities with which 

 some women no doubt imagine themselves 

 becomingly adorned ; but of the many 

 which have claimed our attention, in none 

 perhaps was the plumage of different birds 

 so confusingly intermingled as in a hat 

 seen not long since on an Eighth Avenue, 

 New York City, car. 



It contained a Black-cock's tail. Dove's 

 and Whip-poor-will's wings. Grebe's 

 breast, Paradise Bird's plumes, a bunch 

 of Aigrettes, and a Hummingbird ! — 

 F. M. C. 



Death of Miss Seixas. 



We regret to announce the death of Miss 

 Cecile Seixas, secretary of the Texas Au- 

 dubon Society, who, with her mother and 

 two sisters, perished in the Galveston 

 hurricane. 



