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birds. Very little killing of our protected birds was reported. The drying up 

 of many of the feeding-grounds in central. Florida caused some birds to leave 

 their accustomed haunts and seek nesting-places in new territories. 



In protecting the hard-pressed Egrets, guardianship is also extended to 

 many other water-birds that assemble with them in their rookeries. Thus, on 

 the Association's Bird Island in Orange Lake, Fla., in addition to 350 large 

 Egrets and 300 Snowy Egrets, large numbers of Louisiana Herons, Black- 

 crowned Night Herons, Green Herons, Little Blue Herons, Ward's Herons, 

 Water Turkeys, Boat-tailed Grackles, Purple and Florida Gallinules, Least 

 Bitterns, Florida Ducks, and White Ibis received protection. A pair of the 

 rare Glossy Ibis (probably the White-faced) also occupied this wonderland of 

 bird-life. In all, forty-seven wardens were employed this year. 



REPORT OF JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES 



Despite all the distracting influences the past year, the formation of Junior 

 Audubon Societies has gone steadily on as heretofore. The systematic plan 

 of supplying children with first-class material for doing simple elementary 

 work in bird-study is appreciated by school men and women in every state in 

 the Union and in Canada. 



One evidence of how the Junior Audubon work holds in a school where it 

 is once established, is shown by the many teachers in the grades who have 

 formed a Junior Society every season for the past five or six years. Usually 

 the classes move on so that the teachers have a new set of children each year, 

 but their interest in the work causes them to encourage each group coming 

 under their care to organize for bird-study. In many other instances, where a 

 Junior Class has been formed in one of the lower grades, the children have 

 insisted on reorganizing year after year, although the class continually passes 

 on to the care of different teachers. 



This year, as heretofore, immense numbers of bird-boxes have been built, 

 and around thousands of schoolhouses birds have been fed in winter. Many 

 attractive programs have been rendered, and the local interest in bird-preser- 

 vation kept alive and stimulated by the little folk at school. 



For the school year ending June i, 19 18, classes were formed and mem- 

 bers enrolled in the different states and in Canada, as shown in the following 

 summary : 



Summary for the year ending June i, 1918: 



State Classes Members State Classes Members 



Alabama S 147 District of Columbia . . . i 33 



Arizona 4 74 Florida 21 483 



Arkansas •. . . i 31 Georgia 30 938 



California ........ 197 5,678 Idaho 57 1,53° 



Colorado 48 1,487 Illinois 247 7,285 



Connecticut 324 7, 608 Indiana 109 2,999 



Delaware 3 51 Iowa 118 3,021 



