" }'ou cannot with a scalpel Ji?Ld the poet's soul. 

 J\'or yet the wild bird's song;." 



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

 Connecticut), Fairtield, 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 



California Mrs. George S. Gav, Redlands. 



Colorado Mrs. Martha A. Shute, Denver. 



Connecticut Mrs. Wii-liam Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



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



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Kentucky 



Louisiana Miss Anita Pring, 1449 Arabella St, New Orleans. 



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Fairfield. 



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



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



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



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



Nebraska Miss Joy Higgins, 544 South 30th street, Omaha. 



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



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



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



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 820 West Ninth street, Cincinnati. 



Oklahoma Mrs. Adelia Holco.mb, Enid. 



Oregon Miss Gertrude Metcalfe, 634 Williams a\e., Portland. 



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



Rhode Island Martha R. Clarke, Sg Brown street, Providence. 



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



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia Mrs. J. C. Plant, Glencarlyn. 



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



W^yoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



The Literature of Bird Protection ^^^^ remedies might be adopted suitable for 



local needs, — not emotional, figurative 



Within the decade it has been difficult for writing, but accurate, scientific statement, 



the amateur bird student to obtain suitable such as the general medical practitioner 



guide-books for his use. Then came the —if he is an able man — seeks from the 



great revival of 1895 ; enthusiasm started specialist in troublous cases. 



and waxed intense; the Audubon movement. In answer to this demand has sprung a 



that had beforetime merely flickered, swept new form of expression, the Literature of 



into flame, and a crusade was formed, too Bird Protection, — literature, because it 



strong with a righteous indignation to be goes far beyond the mere tabulation of facts, 



at first discriminating in what it attacked. and thus wins for itself a permanent place 



The fact of wholesale bird destruction was that its statistics alone could not obtain 



its battle-cry, a cry which has been heard for it. 



at least around the civilized world even if While the majority of more or less elab- 

 all have not yet given practical heed. orate manuals of ornithology and nature- 

 Next came the demand, from the conser- books of the past eight years dwell upon 

 vative, for definite and detailed information, the economic value of birds, it has been 



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