436 Bird -Lore 



Bird Conservation Club of Bangor (Maine). — The first official act of 

 our Club the past year was to vote $100 to make our Club a life member of 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies. We have wanted to do this 

 for several years, but the regular work kept our treasury low. The Herbert K. 

 Job lecture, which was a great success, helped us to reach the goal. The monthly 

 meetings have been profitable and interesting. Through the fall, winter, and 

 spring, one of our members has contributed monthly a 'Bird Lover's Column' 

 to one of the daily papers. This has aroused public interest in our work. 

 In April we gave a motion picture entertainment of bird films at the 

 opera house. 



The Club has been much interested in the bird-banding movement, through 

 the active work of one of its members. This year, with a superintendent of 

 public schools in sympathy with our aims, we have done more work in the 

 schools of Bangor than ever before. In cooperation with the manual training 

 department and the public library, we offered prizes for the six best 

 constructed nesting-boxes. The exhibition was a success and many nesting- 

 boxes were sold to interested buyers. The Club has given Audubon Charts to 

 six of the suburban schools. We have made great efforts to form Junior Audu- 

 bon Clubs in the schools, and there are now several flourishing Clubs started. 

 In some schools, where the teachers felt that they could not form Clubs, the 

 interest in birds has been stimulated, and we look for more Clubs next year. 

 Our field meetings are a great feature and highly enjoyable. 



In January, Mrs. Florence Buzzell, for six years president of our Club, died 

 after a lingering illness. Mrs. Buzzell was an ardent lover of nature. Every- 

 thing in God's great out-of-doors appealed to her, but the birds were especially 

 dear, and it was in her heart that the 'Bird Conservation Club' found birth. 

 The birds will never have a more appreciative, loyal friend than she. It is our 

 ambition to erect a beautiful bird fountain in Summit Park, a place much 

 frequented by birds, in memory of Florence Bragg Buzzell, our Club's founder 

 and first president. We are now bending all our energies towards raising the 

 necessary funds. — Alice B. Brown, Secretary. 



Bird-Lovers' Club of Brookljm (N. Y.). — The past year meetings were 

 held on the second Tuesday evening of each month from October to June, 

 inclusive, at the Children's Museum. Talks by members of the Club were 

 given on 'Migration,' illustrated with charts; 'Winter Birds' and 'Spring Birds' 

 seen at Prospect Park from 1914-21, each accompanied by color prints of the 

 birds discussed; 'Warblers,' with which water-color sketches were also shown 

 of each species; 'Treatment of Bird-Skins for Study Specimens,' with several 

 mounted specimens for illustration. At other meetings 'Round Robins' have 

 been the special feature of the evening, or a visit to the exhibition rooms of 

 the Museum to study the collection of birds which are classified in cases 

 according to seasons in Prospect Park and the 'Birds We Read About.' At 



