Reports of Field Agents 



417 



BANDED FEMALE OSPREY AT NEST, GARDINERS ISLAND, N. Y. 

 From new Audubon film 'Feathered Camp Intimates.' Photographed by Herbert K. Job 



Since our first publications in applied ornithology, funds have been lacking 

 for publishing the results of our later experimental research work, but it is 

 now probable that further needed publication can be made in the near future. 

 Class instruction work at Amston was not resumed this season, owing to 

 the pressure of other work there, and the photographing of another reel of 

 educational pictures of wild bird-life. This film 'Feathered Camp Intimates' 

 will be available before this report is read. It will also be issued and dis- 

 tributed by The Fox Film Corporation, New York City. Correspondence, 

 demonstration, and lecture work have been conducted as before. In lectures 

 for the coming season under the Department, besides the above new reel, we 

 also expect soon to have available several other new films, the result of our 

 last season's expedition to the coast of Maine, northern Nova Scotia, the 

 Magdalen Islands, and the Bird Rocks. Application for lecture dates may be 

 made to the New York office of this Association. 



REPORT OF MARY S. SAGE, FIELD AGENT FOR 

 LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK 



For the first time since I have been working on Long Island, I had to cancel 

 some appointments on account of sickness in the schools last winter, and bad 

 weather interfered several times, as well. So many pupils were absent in some 

 schools that the principals asked me to wait until more could be present. In 

 some schools, where two or three talks are generally given, all the pupils were 

 assembled at one time, so the number of talks and lectures will fall below what 

 would be the regular number, had conditions been normal. 



