488 Bird - Lore 



Bird Day in chapel. At that time prizes were awarded to Helen Carroll and 

 Donald Church for the best original compositions on "Bird Protection as a 

 War Measure." 



Cloth posters, received from the National Association of Audubon Societies, 

 have been put in the woods about Kingston, permission having been obtained 

 from the Mayor to place the posters anywhere the Society deemed wise. 

 Lectures were also given, with the aid of colored slides obtained from Albany. 

 A collection of about thirty mounted specimens of our common wild birds was 

 loaned to the Society for study. We hope to continue our interest and do more 

 work in the open. — (Miss) Elizabeth Richards, Secretary. 



Cayuga (N. Y.) Bird Club. — Owing to the many calls upon our time and 

 money the past year, we made no special plea for funds nor introduced any 

 innovations. The inauguration of a course of public lectures on the "Conserva- 

 tion of Wild Life" by the Cornell College of Agriculture brought to Ithaca 

 so many of the leading ornithologists of the country that it was unnecessary for 

 the Bird Club to hold any public lectures. The usual field-trips during the 

 migration period of April and May were kept up and were well attended. The 

 trips were taken in the Sanctuary every Saturday morning from 6 to 8 a.m. 



Another bird-box competition was held among the school children, and 

 about ICO well-built boxes were entered. Assurance that the boxes were all 

 put up was secured by not announcing the prizes until the children brought 

 back word that all of their houses were in position and ready for tenants. The 

 regular feeding-stations in the Bird Club Sanctuary were maintained during 

 the winter, and an increasing number of birds patronized them. The diet 

 of millet and sunflower seed was somewhat more expensive than the usual one 

 of chick-feed or cracked grain, but was deemed advisable. — Arthur A. Allen, 

 Secretary. 



Chautauqua (N. Y.) Bird and Tree Club. — While originally a summer 

 organization, the Club has, for two years, held meetings during the winter at 

 the Museum of Natural History in New York City, being most fortunate not 

 only in its place of meeting, but also in the cooperation of T. Gilbert Pearson, 

 who as Vice-President is seldom allowed to miss a meeting, the members always 

 being eager to hear of his work all over the country. At one meeting Prof. 

 S. C. Schmucker, after a preliminary lecture in the Hall on the evolution of 

 the birds from the Reptilia, conducted the members about the Museum, show- 

 ing from the splendid collection of fossils just how closely the great Dinosaurs 

 were related to the earliest birds. Of especial interest was a fossil of an extinct 

 bird which shows two rows of well-developed teeth. Dr. G. Clyde Fisher, of 

 the American Museum of Natural History, has also lectured to us delightfully. 

 Besides paying especial attention to the utilitarian value of birds as a war 

 measure, the Club is helping the Committee for Devastated France in their 



