504 Bird - Lore 



Rumson (N. J.) Bird Club. — The Club has little to report in regard to its 

 activities for the past year. A majority of our members have been so engrossed 

 in war-work that they have not had much time to devote to the interests of 

 their friends — the birds. We have merely tried to keep the organization intact, 

 hoping that after the war we may resume our activities. We have had but few 

 resignations and have a fair balance on hand. We defrayed the expenses of 

 a lecture by E. H. Baynes, whose topic was "Wild Birds and How to Attract 

 them." The lecture was held in the high school in the borough of Rumson and 

 nearly every seat was filled. A Bird-House Contest was set on foot by the 

 Club, and B. S. Bowdish was engaged to come to Rumson and prepare the 

 way for the Contest. Five prizes were awarded. Ten or fifteen houses were 

 constructed by the pupils of the schools. Annual subscriptions to Bird-Lore 

 were presented to each of the teachers in the borough. — ^John B. Lunger, 

 Secretary. 



St. Louis (Mo.) Bird Club. — During the year 1917-18 the following work 

 was accomplished by our Club: Bird-lists for the months of April and May 

 have been compiled for certain parks and suburbs of St. Louis and placed in 

 the Public Library. Nesting-boxes, to the number of 900, approximately, 

 built by pupils in the manual training departments of the public schools, were 

 distributed and set up in the parks throughout the city. The Club now enjoys 

 the privileges of membership in the National Association of Audubon Socie- 

 ties, the Audubon Society of Missouri, and the Missouri Fish and Game League. 

 Literature from the United States Biological Survey, pertaining to birds, is 

 received regularly and cared for in the Public Library. The collections of 

 moimted birds in Washington University have been made available for study 

 by members of the Club. 



The Commissioner of Parks and Recreation, Nelson Cunliff, besides giv- 

 ing his cordial cooperation in many plans of the Club relating to the parks, 

 has undertaken to develop a new addition to one of the parks as a bird sanc- 

 tuary, in accordance with the plan and recommendations submitted by officers 

 of the Bird Club. The tract comprises about 8 acres and is well located. The 

 work of laying out and the making of a small lake is now under way. During 

 the year, the following lectures were delivered: "Birds of St. Louis and Vicin- 

 ity" (illustrated) by Ralph Hoffman, Headmaster of the St. Louis Country 

 Day School; "Birds in the Nesting Season" (illustrated) by Ernest Harold 

 Baynes. The latter was given before the Audubon Society of Missouri, the 

 St. Louis Garden Club, and the Bird Club; "Federal Game Reservations" 

 (motion-pictures), by Jack Miner, Kingsville, Ont., before the Missouri Fish 

 and Game League. Bird-walks in the parks and suburbs were conducted dur- 

 ing the spring. Membership is growing, especially the Junior list; several life 

 members were added. — (Mrs.) Kelton E. White, Secretary. 



