ii8 Bird -Lore 



Western Pennsylvania Audubon Society. — The Society's outings the 

 past year under the enthusiastic leadership of the 'Country Rambler,' Edmund 

 W. Arthur, were very popular. These are all-day affairs (Saturday). Arriving 

 at the appointed place, the Chairman appoints leaders of small groups and 

 assigns them a territory. In the mid-afternoon all groups unite and the leaders 

 report the discoveries made by his or her group. Usually a silent period was 

 observed, all listening for bird-voices. 



The lectures are, as a rule, free to members, with a small fee for visitors. 

 The lecturers during the past year were Henry Oldys, Washington, D. C; 

 Mrs. S. Louise Patteson, Cleveland, Ohio; George L. Fordyce, Youngs town, 

 Ohio; T. Walter Weiseman, Emsworth, Pa.; W. S. Thomas, Pittsburgh, Pa.; 

 W. E. Clyde Todd, Beaver, Pa.; and T. S. Briggs, of Norristown, Pa. 



A union dinner of our Society and the Sewickley Valley Audubon Society 

 is an annual affair in March. Members are thus enthused to get out notebooks 

 and field-glasses and take to the highways and hedges. Last March 580 bird- 

 lovers dined and were addressed by the President of the societies, Charles B. 

 Horton, and by Witmer Stone, of Philadelphia, Pa., President of the state So- 

 ciety. Greetings were received from Walt F. McMahon, representing the 

 National Association of Audubon Societies. Mr. Norman McClintock, of Pitts- 

 burgh, exhibited his wonderful motion pictures of bird-life — proclaimed by 

 authorities to be the finest ever taken. The Society has increased the interest 

 in bird-study in the schools and created a desire for bird-knowledge in thou- 

 sands of people. All ovel western Pennsylvania, bird-shelters, feeding-stations, 

 and nesting-boxes have been erected; food-bearing shrubs and trees have been 

 planted; cat facts have been made known; and appeals for bird-feeding at 

 times of heavy snow-fall have been made in the daily papers. The officers of 

 the Society are as follows: President, Charles B. Horton; Vice-President, 

 Fred L. Homer; Second Vice-President, E. J. Robinson; Third Vice-Presi- 

 dent, R. H. Santens; Treasurer, T. Walter Weiseman. — John W. Thomas, 

 Secretary. 



Wild Life Protective Society of Milwaukee. — Realizing the immense value 

 of junior work in connection with wild-life protection and conservation, our 

 main activities were centered about the school-children and their schoolrooms 

 with the idea of organizing a strong army of defense — inculcating into every 

 boy's and girl's mind the noble spirit of wild-life protection. In other words, we 

 hoped to accomplish by constructive measures what restrictive measures had 

 failed to do. 



Our plan was to organize in every school, whether public, private, or 

 parochial, a bird club comprising the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades. 

 The teachers of the different grades selected one of their number to act as 

 director of the club and the children elected a president and secretary. Each 

 member of these clubs was then presented with a button emblematic of the 



