380 Bird -Lore 



the establishment of wild-bird and game refuges in different parts of the 

 state. The Governor was authorized to set aside any lands owned by the state, 

 and surrounding state institutions, as wild-bird and game refuges; also, lands 

 owned by private individuals were, under certain conditions, allowed to be 

 set aside for the same purpose. Upon the passage of this bill, three thousand 

 acres about the State Institutions at Salem were at once declared refuges 

 by the Governor, also a large tract near Pendleton. 



Mr. William L. Finley, our State Game Warden, understands his duty and 

 knows how to enforce the laws. There have been some complaints of the 

 Robin, and especially of the Lewis' Woodpecker, destroying cherries and apples. 

 This Woodpecker has found a friend in Mr. M. A. Kelso, of Sherwood, who 

 reports having observed it eating caterpillers in his orchard — an economic 

 asset, which if generally understood by the orchardist, would save many a 

 handsome fellow from the shot-gun. Throughout the state, people are coming 

 to be more intelligently interested regarding wild-bird value, and many are 

 more anxious to study than to kill on sight. — Emma J. Welty, Secretary. 



Pennsylvania. — During the past year, the work of the Pennsylvania 

 Audubon Society has been chiefly the distribution of leaflets and other bird- 

 protection literature, and also the starting of Junior Audubon Clubs. 



To try and encourage greater permanence in these clubs, and a more 

 thorough bird study by means of indoor classes during the winter, is part of 

 the work planned for the coming season. 



This work will, doubtless, be greatly aided by the suggestions and ideas 

 to be gathered from the annual meeting of the National Association of Audu- 

 bon Societies, on October 31, in New York, and the Pennsylvania Society 

 will also, this year, have the further stimulus to bird-study given it by the 

 meeting of the American Ornithologist's Union in November, at the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences, in Philadelphia. 



Among the items of local interest to the Society, during the year, have 

 been the publishing of a new leaflet, the adoption of a society button for the 

 children's clubs, and the printing of a new form of the society's pledge, so as 

 to include both young and adult members. — E. W. Fisher, Secretary. 



Rhode Island. — The Audubon Society of Rhode Island has, for the past 

 three years, given its main interest to educational work. This can best be 

 done in connection with the schools. One of our directors, Mrs. Thomas V. 

 Pontiac, has worked out a most satisfactory method of reaching young chil- 

 dren, and getting them actively interested to observe and know the birds. 

 She has devoted one afternoon a week, and has visited in turn the six higher 

 grades of the grammar school, lecturing half an hour in each room on the 

 birds of the season. During the fall and winter, she described the permanent 

 residents and winter visitants. She had a bird lunch-counter, which attracted 



