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three meetings were taken up by papers read by our own members, by lantern- 

 slides of birds, with accompanying descriptions, by talks by Mrs. Harriet W. 

 Myers, and by music. 



Mainly through the generosity of the late Mrs. E. W. Brooks, we were 

 enabled to donate $200 each to the California Audubon Society and the Cali- 

 fornia Humane Association, to help forward legislative bills for bird- and animal- 

 protection. The sum of $150 was contributed to the National Association of 

 Audubon Societies in response to its appeal for funds. We trimmed a tree in 

 Library Park as a bird Christmas tree, which we hope had an educational 

 influence upon the public. — (Miss) Frances K. Walter, Secretary. 



Rhinebeck (N. Y.) Bird Club. — With its President and one of its Vice- 

 Presidents in military service, its Treasurer a member of the Local Draft Board 

 and County Fuel Administration, and its Secretary away from Rhinebeck in 

 state conservation work, the activities of the Rhinebeck Bird Club have been 

 somewhat curtailed during the past year. Since the last report in Bird-Lore, 

 the Club has held, besides its annual business meeting in December, two public 

 lecture meetings. At the first, Capt. A. Radclyffe Dugmore, well known as an 

 ornithologist in this country before he entered the British army, gave an 

 illustrated war lecture. At the second, Warwick S. Carpenter, Secretary of 

 the New York State Conservation Commission, told, with lantern-slides and 

 motion-pictures, how New York state is conserving its wild life and other 

 natural resources. 



The membership in the Club, both junior and adult, has remained about 

 the same, and Audubon work in the schools has received the same prominence 

 as in previous years. The Club's sales of winter food for birds and of nesting 

 boxes shows that interest in these subjects has not abated. A contest in spring- 

 migration records was instituted in the schools, and the list which won the 

 prize (Reed's Bird Guide) was made by a boy of thirteen who showed a very 

 definite and accurate knowledge of birds. In the campaign for greater pro- 

 tection to the diminishing Ruffed Grouse, the Rhinebeck Bird Club submitted 

 to the Conservation Commission a petition signed by some of its members, 

 which, with similar petitions from other clubs, was instrumental in reducing 

 the open season and bag-limit on Ruffed Grouse by one-half. 



Rhinebeck is still a "bird village," even though the Bird Club's activities 

 are, for the time being, somewhat overshadowed by more immediate war and 

 Red Cross interests. — Clinton G. Abbott, Secretary. 



Rockaway (N. Y.) Bird Club. — From fall until late in the spring, the 

 main activity of the Club was centered in keeping feeding-stations and drink- 

 ing-fountains supplied and in persuading non-members to place such helps 

 about their home-grounds. On April 30, Clinton G. Abbott, of the State Con- 

 servation Commission, gave the Club a most interesting lecture, illustrated by 



