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offered to feed the birds in winter, when they take their hikes over the country. 

 Posters relating to the open season, which have been sent by the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies, have been mailed to the members to be 

 used where they will do the most good. Articles on birds have been published 

 in the newspapers and in the Indiana Educator- Journal during the year. 

 Last April we published the following leaflets: "The History of the Indiana 

 Audubon Society;" "How to organize an Audubon Society;" and a "Checking 

 List of the Birds of Indiana." Five hundred of each were printed and distrib- 

 uted. The memorial to David Worth Dennis, so beautifully written by Alden 

 Hadley, was this year printed in the "Proceedings" of the Academy of 

 Science. 



We will be represented at the annual meeting in October of the Federation 

 of Clubs of which this Society is a member. The Society lost a good bird- 

 student when Mrs. Etta S. Wilson moved to Detroit. Mrs. Wilson was Field 

 Secretary of Indiana. Michigan has gained a valuable bird-student and bird- 

 defender. What the next year may demand of us we do not know, but one 

 thing seems very evident, and that is, that the birds, the soldiers of the soil, 

 will need our protection in a way we never yet have known, in order that we 

 may have food for ourselves and some to spare for the people of Europe. — 

 (Miss) Elizabeth Downhoiir, Secretary. 



Massachusetts. — The Massachusetts Audubon Society takes pride in the 

 progress of the work at its Bird Sanctuary, Moose Hill, Sharon, during the 

 past year. Mr. Harry G. Higbee is now established as resident warden in full 

 charge of the wild bird-life of the 265-acre estate. A daily survey of the ground 

 is made, each nest and species is card-catalogued, and it is proposed to keep 

 minute and definite records of all individuals. The farmhouse which is the 

 warden's headquarters is rapidly being made into a museum of the natural 

 history of the region, especially of its bird-life, the plan being to make the 

 Bird Sanctuary a model and an object lesson for all students of bird-protec- 

 tion methods. The region is admirably adapted to the purpose, and the estate, 

 lying as it does within the great state reservation of some 2,000 acres, is a 

 natural nucleus of wild life. Bird-students are encouraged to make use of the 

 Sanctuary for observation purposes, and the number of visitors steadily 

 increases. 



On May 18 the Society held its first Annual Bird Day Outing there, and 

 all were charmed with the beauty of the place and the great numbers of the 

 birds seen. Fifty-one species were noted on that day, some of them rare, 

 eighteen pairs of eleven species nesting. 



We rejoice, also, in the final passing of the Enabling Act, the culmination 

 of legislative work for the Migratory Bird Treaty for which the Society, both 

 as a whole and through individual members, has worked untiringly for a 

 number of years and toward which it has directly contributed over $3,500. 



