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are taken every fall by migrations from the neighboring cities makes a yearly 

 campaign necessary. 



Our business manager, Dr. Harris Kennedy, secured a good collection of 

 the skins of common perching birds of this neighborhood last spring, and has 

 had them preserved in individual celluloid tubes which are unbreakable, 

 hermetically sealed, but perfectly transparent. These are to be used as a cir- 

 culating library by members of the Club, for study or reference, as the case may 

 be. The collection was purchased by means of a fund collected from some of 

 the Club's members for that purpose. 



Naturally, the war has made itself felt here, and there has been a very notice- 

 able slackening of interest among the Club members. We hope, however, that 

 we can keep the organization running fairly strong despite this fact. We are 

 about to start a 'fall drive' in the town in an attempt to materially increase our 

 active membership. — ;Nathan Chandler Foot, President. 



Buffalo (N. Y.) Audubon Society. — The eighth year of this organization 

 closed May i8, 19 17, with a paid-up membership of 264. There were four 

 meetings of the Society and six meetings of the Executive Committee for the 

 transaction of business during the year. 



Through the courtesy of Henry R. Howland, Superintendent of Natural 

 Sciences, cards of admission to four lectures were sent to each member. The 

 lectures of the year were as follows: October 16, Mrs. S. Louise Patterson; 

 November 23, Ernest Harold Baynes; December 5, Edward C. Avery; De- 

 cember 8, T. Gilbert Pearson; February 24, Guy A. Bailey; March 23, Dr. 

 Arthur A. Allen; March 30, Clinton G. Abbot; May 18, Clinton E. Kellogg. 



For the second year the Audubon Society furni.ihed money to pay dues to 

 make each boy and girl on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation a member of a 

 Junior Audubon Circle. Membership in the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies and in the Erie County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to 

 Animals was continued. 



The financial report of the year ending May 18, 19 17, follows: Receipts, 

 $932.28; disbursements, $629.65. On hand, May 18, $302.63. To this will be 

 added more than $50 from 'Notes of the Audubon Society,' published in the 

 Express, not yet paid in. The Bird Almanac netted the Society $68.71. The 

 copies that remain unsold may be obtained free from Miss Mary Ellis, 763 

 Bird Avenue, by members of the Society or by teachers who have formed 

 Junior Audubon Circles. The postage is 5 cents for Buffalo. For the seventh 

 year 'Notes of the Audubon Society' have (since March 8) appeared weekly in 

 the Illustrated Sunday Express. One-half value of pubUshed articles is returned 

 to the writers. The Junior Audubon work is very prosperous. The Director, 

 Miss Mary ElUs, is untiring in the work; and as many Circles have been formed 

 during this as in past years. The Migration Calendars in the Express have been 

 in charge of Miss Caroline L. Doll, whose efiicient service is appreciated by 



