C|)e Audubon ^ocittit^ 



" Vou caruiot with a scalpel find the poet' s soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgoou Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of 

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to wliom all communications relating- to the work of the Audubon 

 and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department 

 should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street. New York City. 



New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N.J. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore place, Wilmington. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Florida 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk . 



Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Notes But it is not enough merely to enact laws; 



The work of a far-seeing Connecticut they must be enforced and doubtful points 



gentleman, Mr. E. Knight Sperry, in secur- must be settled by the courts. The bird 



ing the cooperation of farmers in allowing 'aws of the United States, usually called 



their lands to be, without interference to game laws, are of two kinds [a) State or 



cultivation, banded in retreats where, in 'ocal laws and {b) Federal laws, 



addition to protection, game birds may find State laws prescribe the kinds of birds 



food in the hungry season, has suggested a which may or may not be killed, the 



work on similar lines that may be done for time and manner in which they may be 



non-game and song birds and at the same taken, and the purpose for which they may 



time give an added field of labor and in- be captured. Thus the Illinois game law 



terest to all protectionists. defines game birds and prohibits the killing 



This topic will be fully discussed in the of other birds at any time. In providing for 



next issue of Bird-Lore. game it fixes a definite season for shooting 



Acting on a suggestion made in this de- quail and ducks, but forbids the killing of 

 partment in December, 1899, Dr. T. S. ducks at any season from a sail boat, with 

 Palmer has kindly sent Bird-Lore the a swivel gun, or after sunset; furthermore 

 following admirable statement of the legal it declares that it shall be unlawful to cap- 

 status of birds. M. O. W. ture quail in the State for sale, or to ship 



to other States except under license. In all 



Some Fundamental Principles of Bird these matters the State is supreme and 



Laws violations of its laws are tried in the State 



By T. S. Palmer courts. 



Adequate laws necessarily form the The Federal law, commonly known as 



foundation of effective bird protection. the Lacey Act, or the Act of May 25, 



(79) 



