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wise when he influenced action looking to the services of a man of such wide 

 experience as the present Game Warden, to administer that important office. 

 The elimination of the Mourning Dove as a game bird, and the reduction 

 in the size of bag of game birds in open season, have resulted in dissatisfac- 

 tion in some portions of the state, which may be brought before some later 

 Legislature, but it is believed that the large number of seed-eating and insec- 

 tivorous birds that were formerly outlawed will never again be cut off the 

 protected list, whatever the action in regard to game birds. And, in this one 

 respect, the work of this Society has been eminently successful. 



Through the efforts of Professor Thomas J. Headlee, Entomologist of the 

 State Agricultural College, Manhattan, Kansas, and a Director in this Society, 

 the article mentioned in our last report was published in the interest of agri- 

 cultural education by the College Extension Department, under Mr. J. H. 

 Miller. The edition comprised 25,000 copies, which were sent to all the School 

 Districts and Farmers' Institutes of the state. Copies were also mailed by 

 this Society to persons throughout the United States, Canada and some 

 European countries. This document, being the first of the kind in Kansas, 

 to cover such a comprehensive field, is regarded as a very important publi- 

 cation of the Society, and furnishes facts and figures that will materially aid 

 our advance work. Six copies were mailed to the parent Society, and we still 

 have a goodly number on hand for distribution. — Richard H. Sullivan, 

 Secretary. 



Kentucky. — The Kentucky Audubon Society was organized January 28, 

 191 1, with eighteen charter members (this number was later increased to 

 eighty-four), with officers as follows: Prof. James H. Gardner, President; 

 Miss Mary L. Didlake, Vice-President, and Mr. V. K. Dodge, Secretary- 

 Treasurer. 



Meetings are held regularly on the first Saturday afternoon in each month. 

 Systematical study of birds was inaugurated and pursued diligently during 

 the spring migratory season. A vigorous campaign of education has been 

 carried on principally among the school children of nearby counties. The 

 work of the committee in this regard is shown in the remarkable Hst of Junior 

 Audubon Classes. These classes, at the end of the Junior fiscal year, June i, 

 totaled one hundred and eight, with a membership of 1,47 5, placing Kentucky 

 third in the list of southern states. 



Work has been started on a campaign to organize auxiliary societies in 

 every county of the state. A letter is being prepared to each of the county 

 school superintendents of the 119 counties in Kentucky. This will set forth 

 the objects of the National Society, and the plan or organization of the State 

 Society, the County Auxiliary and the Junior Classes. Along with the letter 

 will be sent a copy of our Constitution and By-Laws, copies of the National 

 Association Leaflets, including Special No. 22, a copy of bird studies pursued 



