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and Edward F. Fleischer. Howard H. Cleaves, of the Staten Island Museum, 

 gave an interesting address on his recent trip to the Virginia coast, with 

 . beautiful lantern slides of the bird-life of that region. 



The Club sent typewritten letters to all Senators and Representatives at 

 Washington in favor of the Migratory Bird law, and many individual members 

 wrote both Senators and Representatives. 



A bird-glass was presented as a prize to the boy or girl doing the most 

 ef&cient work in bird-study in the Children's Museum. This competition 

 aroused much interest among the school-children in the study of local 

 birds. 



The study collections of the Children's Museum Bird-Room were materially 

 increased and improved by a fund of nearly $200 raised by the Birdlovers' 

 Club. These study collections are used continually for intensive study by 

 groups of Audubon members. The Birdlovers' Club maintains, through 

 Doctor E. W. Victor, a monthly Bulletin, posted in the Brooklyn Museum 

 and in the Children's Museimi, of the birds of Prospect Park. Up to the 

 present time the Club has identified a total of 168 species of birds in Prospect 

 Park. 



One interesting inquiry came to the Club from Russia, the heart of the war 

 zone, for material on the subject of bird-conservation. — George 0. Schoon- 

 HOVEN, Secretary. 



Blair County (Pa.) Game, Fish and Forestry Association. — The conser- 

 vation and propagation work of the Association, as apphed to wild birds, was 

 carried forward during the past year in the same effective manner as that 

 of previous years. 



Reahzing that it is education that forms the common mind, the Association 

 offered prizes to the school-children of the county who would erect bird-boxes 

 and have them first occupied in the spring. The children entered spiritedly 

 into the contest, with results that were county wide. The sum of $25 was 

 appropriated for bird-boxes that were presented to the schools of the county, 

 hundreds of houses being built by the Association on Government specifica- 

 tions and sold broadcast for 25 and 30 cents each, or the bare cost price. The 

 sum of $42 was appropriated and invested in grain, which was carried to all 

 sections of the county during the severe winter months and used to feed 

 game-, song- and insectivorous-birds. The Association also invested %t,t, in 

 barberry and bayberry trees, planted in selected spots to furnish feed for 

 birds. 



The Blair County Club is instrumental in having the county closed to 

 Quail and Ring-necked Pheasants for the 19 17 season, and made an earnest 

 effort to have Ruffed Grouse protected for a year, but in this was unsuccessful. 

 Several hundred notices, calling attention to the state law regarding the dis- 

 turbing of wild birds or their nests, were posted in all parts of the county, and 



