486 Bird - Lore 



The bird articles and migration calendar in the Sunday Express were 

 resumed during the spring months, and besides attracting wide attention to 

 bird-study, netted the Society about $50. The Almanac Committee, consisting 

 of Miss Crump and Mr. Avery, prepared a most interesting bird almanac, of 

 which a thousand copies were printed and ready for distribution earlier than 

 in previous years. The price of the almanac was 50 cents, and they had a 

 wide distribution throughout the country. Unsold copies were presented to 

 Junior Audubon Classes in the schools. The membership in the Junior Audubon 

 Circles was not so large as usual, many children giving all their money to the 

 Red Cross or spending it for Thrift Stamps. 



Perhaps the most successful, and certainly the most pleasurable, part of 

 our work was a series of excursions held on Saturdays to the following places: 

 April 27, Williams ville; May 11, Springbrook; May 18, Fort Erie; May 25, 

 Abbott's Pasture; June i, Hamburg; June 8, Athol Springs; and June 29, 

 Niagara Glen. Mr. Avery was the leader. The smallest number present was 

 eight and the largest thirty-four. These trips were announced in the daily 

 papers and several interested persons learned of our Society and asked to 

 become members. — (Miss) Caroline 0. Doll, Secretary. 



Bird-Lovers' Club of Brooklyn (N. Y.). — We hold our meetings the first 

 Saturday of each month, from October to June, inclusive. At each meeting 

 some member gives a talk on birds. These are very helpful and are thoroughly 

 enjoyed. On the first Saturday of each month, from October to June, a field- 

 trip to Prospect Park is conducted by a member of the Club. A list is kept of 

 the birds observed, and this is posted in the Children's Museum, where the 

 Club holds its meetings. From September, 191 7, to August, 1918, the number 

 of birds seen in the Park was 117. Each year the Club holds a contest for 

 members of the Children's Museum. For three months the children study the 

 migration, nesting habits, and enemies of the birds. They also study the bill, 

 feet, wings, and feathers of various types of birds and their uses to the birds. 

 Then an essay is written and the winner is awarded a pair of field-glasses. — 

 Howard E. Whitlock, Secretary. 



Brookline (Mass.) Bird Club. — Our membership remains about the same 

 as last year, but the interest in bird-life and protection is steadily growing. 

 We have had our regular meetings, with lectures, which have been well attended, 

 and our field- walks on Saturday afternoons and holidays have been so popular 

 that it has been almost impossible to conduct them the way we would like to. 

 Our bulletin for the winter walks and lectures is already issued and includes 

 a lecturethis month by Herbert Parker, former attorney-general of Massachu- 

 setts, on his aviary at Lancaster, Mass; also an illustrated lecture on Labrador 

 by Dr. Charles W. Townsend. — Charles B. Floyd, ex-President. 



