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varied and interesting. One of our members specialized in college upon astron- 

 omy and is interested in forestry; another has reported a migration list for a 

 number of years to the Biological Survey and is engaged in bird-banding; 

 others are interested in plant-life, so that we have many interesting papers. 



Each year we plan for one meeting for the public with a speaker from the 

 outside. We secured the secretary of the New Hampshire Audubon Society 

 this last year, who brought with him some colored slides and gave an inter- 

 esting and instructive talk. On Arbor Day, one member, who is especially 

 interested in birds, went into the grades in the school and gave each one a 

 talk on 'The Utility of the Birds.' Several bird-walks have been taken with 

 school children. A number of feeding-stations are maintained. Considerable 

 interest is aroused in the introduction of the English Pheasant into this section. 

 Another member, president of the Junior Audubon Society, manufactures 

 nesting-boxes. — (Mrs.) M. G. Batchelder, Secretary. 



Cumberland County (Maine) Audubon Society. — Our annual meeting 

 was held in April. The treasurer's report showed the finances of the organiza- 

 tion to be satisfactory. More than one hundred new members have joined the 

 Society the past season. The constitution and by-laws have been revised, also 

 the Society has been incorporated and has purchased Western Egg Rock, a 

 small island in Muscongus Bay, as a breeding-place for the Laughing Gulls. 

 We have placed a warden in charge. The activities of the Society may be 

 judged by the following list of committees: Membership, Program, Bird-Box, 

 Cat-License, Bird-Day Program, and Advisory Committee for Attracting 

 Birds to our Home Gardens. 



The Junior Audubon Society has been organized, with many enthusiastic 

 members and able leaders. The chairman, Mrs. Caroline B. Rolfe of the Junior 

 Society, writes of her work: "After our good Governor, Percival P. Baxter, 

 set aside April 14, 1922, to be observed as Bird Day all over the state of Maine, 

 the associate members of the Cumberland County Audubon Society, who are 

 teachers in the city of Portland, were appointed as a committee to plan a 

 program for that day in the schools. They invited several members of the 

 Society to speak to the children in different schools, and hundreds of children 

 were invited to join with the Society in its work for the wild birds. The pro- 

 gram was splendidly arranged by the Committee and several large Junior 

 Clubs were formed. The Jackson School deserves special mention as its teach- 

 ers have formed three large Clubs. As this is the very beginning of the Junior 

 work in Portland, the Committee feels encouraged and hopes to send names 

 of more Junior Clubs in the near future." 



The chariman (and originator of the idea), Mrs. Edwin Gehring, writes of 

 the work of the Advisory Committee on 'Attracting Birds to our Home Gardens' 

 as follows: "With the realization that there are hundreds of persons in our 

 city — as well as in the whole country — to whom the desire has recently come 



