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certain reservations to hunting and grazing. The reversal of an order to wardens 

 to kill all Hawks and Crows in the forest preserve, Maywood vicinity, was 

 secured through the efforts of the Club. President Harper has published a 

 book, "Twelve Months with the Birds and Poets." Secretary Langdon was 

 elected a director of the Illinois Audubon Society. 



Last December, under the auspices of the Club, 0. M. Schantz and Edward 

 Hulsberg, bird whistler, gave an illustrated lecture entitled, "Birds and Food 



ROY M. LANGDON 

 Secretary Maywood (111.) Bird Club 



Conservation." The Club's honorary membership includes Charles B. Cory, 

 Ruthven Deane, Ned Dearborn, Stephen A. Forbes, Benjamin T. Gault, 

 Edward W. Nelson, Robert Ridgway, and Frank M. Woodruff, sons of 

 Illinois who have contributed immeasureably to bird-lore. Maywood's con- 

 stantly increasing interest in birds, evidenced by the extensive housing 

 and feeding of birds and growing number of bird-baths, is assurance that 

 the local work of the Club is permanently effective. — Roy M. Langdon, 

 Secretary. 



