" You cannot with a scalpel find the poet's 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 tire 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 ...Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



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



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Milwaukee. 



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



Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Encouraging Signs the difficulty of enforcing these laws that are 



Bird protection is daily receiving fresh our battle flags, 

 impetus and that of the most valuable kind. The proper local enforcement of bird 



It seems to be thoroughly understood that laws is indeed a difficult task, requiring 



feather wearing is a custom to be con- moral courage, tact, and a clear head; also 



demned, and one only to be stamped out the reporting of offenders should be made by 



by good laws and practical education in the a legalized official, who can act without 



matter of the value of bird-life and its con- the stigma of personality that must always 



nection with general natural history, so that be felt when we complain of the law 



we hear less of the millinery side of the breaking of our neighbors. If the deputy 



question, and the Audubon movement is sheriffs of each county could be appointed 



reaching a higher plane. At the present as bird wardens, warning could be adminis- 



time all the Atlantic states from Maine to tered and the incorrigible prosecuted in a 



Florida are linked by the A. O. U. law purely impersonal manner, 

 or its equivalent, and the experiment of It has also been suggested that in order 



sending out traveling lecture libraries of to make the laws effective in many places 



birds and nature books has been so sue- they should be posted in Hungarian and 



cessful in Connecticut that other states are Italian, for the latter race come to us with 



following suit. particularly lax ideas about bird killing. 



The future would be rosy, indeed, but Undoubtedly the country is thoroughly 



for one cloud on the horizon, and that is aroused; the task now before us is to hold 



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