" You cannot with a scalpel find the poefs soul. 

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



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

 Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom 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. 



Dela\A'are 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 Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



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



Indiana ^ ■ W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. 



lQ.^a Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



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



Minnesota M iss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



"Wyoming Mrs. John A. Riner, Cheyenne. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Song Bird Reservations ^n\es it of its time-honored haunts, as the 



farmer who sows the seed. 



When the progress of civilization, via the Everything that is said in the following 

 demands of an agricultural and manufac- paper regarding the practicability of com- 

 turing people, encroached upon and finally bining farms in great preserves for game 

 overran the hunting grounds of the North birds can be even more easily accomplished 

 American Indian, tracts of land were re- for Song Bird Reservations, it being gen- 

 served for him where he might live partly erally conceded that the day has passed 

 by his own industry and partly by bestowed when it is enough to satisfy the demands 

 rations, this method being only successful for bird protection by simply ceasing to 

 in a degree, owing to the uneconomic na- kill, 

 ture of the individual so aided. Not only may owners of large estates 



Now that the same civilization is reducing arrange suitable winter shelter for resident 



the woodlands and wild tracts that for ages birds and establish feeding places where 



have been the birds' hunting grounds, daily rations are distributed, but small land 



should not they too be provided with suit- owners may pledge themselves, combine, 



able reservations, where the food natural to and by systematic arrangement convert 



such places shall be sufficiently supple- whole squares in suburban towns into these 



mented and the supply placed beyond the reservations, appointing one member of the 



vicissitudes of weather, etc.? For, unlike union as "food agent" for a specified time, 



the roving Indian, the bird is as great an so that there may be no forgetting, for that 



encourager of the agriculture that often de- "every one's business is nobody's business" 



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