" Vou cannot ivith 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 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 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, Cheyeime. 



Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



The New Bird Laws All the state legislatures have given more 



The fact that the Department of Agri- or less attention to game protection, the 



culture announces the publication of a length of the open season has been in many 



digest of the game laws of the United cases curtailed and the majority have some 



States calls attention to the radical changes form of non-export law, while in many 



made in these laws during the past three states non-residents are not allowed to hunt 



years. without taking out a license, for which 



We believe that the long day of promis- they must pay. 

 cuous slaughter for any and all purposes is Of the eastern coast states Maine, New 

 drawing to a close. Whether there is yet Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, 

 time to reestablish the larger game birds Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and 

 in their haunts remains to be proved, but Florida are practically under the uniform 

 already we hear in many directions of the A. O. U. law variously modified or ex- 

 increase of song-birds, and the pleasant panded, the Carolinas, Virginia and Georgia 

 interview of Garret Newkirk with a Mis- being, unfortunately, gaps in the chain, 

 souri farmer that we publish this month is Connecticut has seemingly gone more 

 significant. thoroughly into the matter than any other 

 During the past year an almost similar state, and is the only one, so far, we be- 

 code has been adopted by California, Con- lieve, to check pot-hunting, not only by 

 necticut, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, forbidding the export of game, but also 

 Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New by forbidding its sale for two years. The 

 Jersey, Florida and Arizona Territory. law reads, "Shipments of all game out of 



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