5o6 Bird - Lore 



birds. Thirty-nine members of our police force and twenty-seven of the mail 

 carriers' association of this city have signed the Humane Pledge and are ever 

 on the alert to report violations of the bird-law. We have a standing offer 

 with the police and postal service of $2 for information which shall convict. 

 These awards we pay into their pension fund. The Secretary has shown 

 stereopticon views of the birds in a number of the public schools. — H. A. 

 Pershing, Secretary. 



South Haven (Mich.) Bird Club. — One year ago we, a little club of 36 

 members, were quite proud of our little selves and the progress we had made 

 during our little life of one year. Now we are two years old, but instead of 

 our growing better as we grow older, the weight of cares seems almost to have 

 crushed us. Still we live! Have dropped from a membership of 36 to that of 

 25, but hope to climb up again some day. We did give another bird-program 

 at "The Scott Club," a local literary club. May 21, sixteen ladies spent the 

 day in the woods near a small stream and identified fifty-five species of birds. 



Last year there were quite a number of books on birds added to those 

 already in the local Public Library. This year the librarian reports no interest 

 in the subject. So far we have not succeeded in securing an ordinance for the 

 control of stray cats. — (Miss) Florence L. Gregory, Secretary. 



Spokane (Wash.) Bird Club. — The annual business meeting of the Club 

 occurs on the first Tuesday in January. Our activities for the year may be 

 said properly to begin on that date. About that time, too, after a short spell 

 of exceeding quietness in birddom, the winter birds from the Arctic prairies 

 and Alaska commence to arrive in earnest, impelled by increasing cold and 

 greater snowfall. As many as 3,000 Bohemian Waxwings, it has been esti- 

 mated, have been seen at one time, cleaning up the mountain-ash and other 

 winter berries within the confines of a couple of city blocks. These were accom- 

 panied by predatory Hawks, decimating their ranks like wolves around a 

 caribou herd on the prairies of the North. 



By the middle of March, with the commencement of nest-building in the 

 pine woods, field-trips were arranged and undertaken. Pine Siskins were seen 

 building on March 13, and a few weeks later they were sitting on eggs. These 

 field- trips were taken periodically until the middle of June, every week or two, 

 when, our activities as a club ceased until the first club meeting on Septem- 

 ber 17. Individual members, however, carried on their pursuit of bird knowl- 

 edge and fresh experiences during the summer months. Many new and inter- 

 esting notes and photographs were taken in this vicinity for tales and lantern- 

 slides during the coming winter. There will be three or four lantern-slide 

 exhibitions during the next few months by members of the Club. Several 

 hundred slides are already prepared, mostly by the writer, and future enter- 

 tainments of this sort are looked forward to with keen interest and anticipa- 



