Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 505 



Saratoga (N. Y.) Bird Club. — Our Club has met monthly throughout the 

 last year. Readings have been given from Burroughs, Lowell, and Jefferies. A 

 lecture by Ernest Harold Baynes at the Skidmore School of Arts (in collabora- 

 tion with our Club) was a great treat. January brought us a letter from S. R. 

 Ingersoll, of Balston Spar, who was in Florida, telling us of the southern birds. 

 In April we had a paper on "Bird Day" by one of our local editors. One inter- 

 esting evening was spent with the President of our Club, who showed us a 

 collection of Thrushes which he had made. They were stuffed and so arranged 

 that we could hold them and examine their beauty. July gave us "Bird Notes 

 and Songs" through the medium of our hostess' victrola. Dr. Calvin S. May, 

 of New York City, read a paper at our August meeting, and a collection of 

 the following birds' nests which the hostess had found were shown : Goldfinch, 

 Baltimore Oriole, Orchard Oriole, Vireo, and Marsh Wren. One of our great 

 subjects has been "Moulting and Migration." We have planned to have a 

 "hike" several times, but it is still to be, owing to the "impropitious ele- 

 ments." — (Miss) Caroline C. Walbridge, Secretary. 



Seattle (Wash.) Audubon Society. — In spite of the war and a resultant 

 decrease in the number of our active members, we feel that we have accom- 

 plished more for the birds during this year than in any other year of our 

 organized history. Reenforced by Mr. Forbush's cat bulletin and various 

 other agencies, the Seattle City Council was persuaded to pass a Cat License 

 Ordinance. This will greatly decrease the destruction of bird-life within the 

 city limits. 



The Park Board has given us permission to use Seward Park for a bird 

 sanctuary. This is situated on the shores of Lake Washington and is admir- 

 ably adapted for such a purpose. We have posted nearly 1,000 of the National 

 Association's "War" posters and have distributed 500 bird leaflets and 150 cat 

 bulletins. Two large Junior Audubon Societies have been established at branch 

 libraries, and plans have been made to increase this number. The cooperation 

 of the Boy Scouts, who are Junior Game Wardens, helps greatly in this work. 

 Bird- talks to both children and parents have been given in our public schools. 

 We find the museum of the State University very generous in furnishing 

 material for these lectures. Cooperating with the sportsmen, we are working 

 to secure additional laws for bird-protection at the coming session of the Leg- 

 islature. We are determined that our Society's slogan, "Bird-Protection Means 

 Food-Conservation," shall bring increasingly good results next year. — (Miss) 

 Mayme Farrar, Corresponding Secretary. ^^^ ^ 



South Bend (Ind.) Humane Society. — ^The report of the year shows that 

 we gave three awards for evidence which convicted of the killing of birds. 

 During the summer we kept a standing advertisement in our daily papers, 

 offering a reward of $5 for information which would convict of the kilhng of 



