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conservation posters, planned to interest and enlighten, and these we have had 

 distributed broadcast over the state, to school-rooms, post-offices, town halls, 

 wherever our members have wandered. Also, we have had printed some cloth 

 reservation posters. These we have used in vicinity of Bangor, where we have 

 persuaded many owners of large estates or woodlands to reserve their property 

 as bird sanctuaries and to forbid all shooting and hunting. 



We have communicated with all the granges of our county and distributed 

 much literature to them. Thus we hope to reach the ears and hearts of the 

 farmers, to whom bird-conservation is so important. 



We are not allowed to form clubs in the public schools of the city, but we 

 have offered prizes for bird-houses, and the manual training departments of 

 the schools have turned out a great many nesting-boxes which we have assisted 

 the boys and girls to place. The Club itself has placed eight to ten dozen 

 nesting-boxes, and we have been rewarded by many bird tenants — Martins, 

 Bluebirds, Wrens and Tree Swallows. 



During the winter months we have fed the winter birds. Last winter several 

 hundreds pounds of suet were placed by the Club and by individual members, 

 as well as large quantities of dry feed for the seed-eating birds. Not many 

 species of birds brave our Maine winters, but Hairy and Downy Woodpeckers, 

 Chickadees, and both White- and Red-breasted Nuthatches were daily pen- 

 sioners of our bounty, and several other kinds came occasionally to our feeding- 

 stations. We have also been visited by flocks of Pine Grosbeaks, Evening 

 Grosbeaks, Bohemian Waxwings, and Redpolls. 



In the last two years our Club has planted nearly a hundred trees in the 

 various parks of the city: fruit-bearing trees, mountain-ash, and wild crab- 

 apple to furnish food for our winter birds, and evergreen trees to furnish them 

 needed shelter. 



During the winter we held regular monthly meetings, when we have listened 

 to many interesting papers and discussions. Occasionally we have secured 

 speakers of some note. The meetings have been very well attended. During 

 the spring season, and again in the fall, we have held numerous field meetings, 

 which have been dehghtful and conducive to increase interest. 



We have tried to 'do our bit' by writing letters to our Congressmen in both 

 State and National Legislatures whenever any measures bearing on bird-pro- 

 tection were up for consideration. 



We have done something in the past, and we hope to do more in the future. 

 — Alice B. Bowen, Secretary. 



Birdlovers' Club of Brooklyn (New York). — During the season of 

 1916-17 the Birdlovers' Club of Brooklyn held monthly meetings from 

 October to May and conducted monthly field trips to Prospect Park under 

 the leadership of members of the Club. Addresses were given on various 

 phases of bird-study and identification in the field by Dr. Edward W. Victor 



