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purpose. To Ruth Bender went the honor of recording the greatest number of 

 new bird arrivals. Members record their field-notes on blanks supplied by the 

 Society. Two members took part in the annual Bird-Lore Christmas census. 

 Our Society is a member of the National Association of Audubon Societies. 

 This brings us the valuable magazine Bird-Lore and other literature which 

 the Association puts out. The income of the Society for the year was $39.36; 

 expenses, $34.55. — ^Edward Yodker, President. 



Iowa City (Iowa) Audubon Society. — Circumstances over which we have 

 had no control have materially limited the activities of our Society during the 

 past year, but I am happy to say that our organization is now taking on new 

 life, and we are anticipating in the immediate succeeding months a period that 

 promises a broader field of operation and many a new and wide-awake adherent 

 to our cause. 



Particularly are we anxious to line up the public schools of our city in the 

 matter of Junior Audubon work, feeling, as we do, that this would accomplish 

 great and far-reaching good, and we therefore trust that a year hence we shall 

 be able to report success in this direction. 



Recently an address was given by Prof. C. C. Nutting, Iowa State Univer- 

 sity, who had just returned from a research expedition to the Fiji Isles and 

 New Zealand. A noteworthy incident of the expedition, was the bringing back 

 by Professor Nutting of four living specimens of the Sphenodon, the sole living 

 species of an order, otherwise known by fossil remains only. The creature, 

 about a foot in length, and similar in general outlines to a lizard, is found 

 only in New Zealand, on a small island, near Wellington, and possibly one 

 other. Because of its scarcity, the New Zealand government has forbidden its 

 being taken from its native habitat, but the regulation was suspended in his 

 case and the four creatures brought to the Iowa State University. These are 

 the only living specimens within the United States today. — George Bennett, 

 Corresponding Secretary. 



Los Angeles (Calif.) Audubon Society. — Among the workers of the Los 

 Angeles Audubon Society are several conscientious students whose knowledge 

 of birds and wild life ranks above the amateur. They are the nucleus around 

 which the membership centers; the magnet which attracts and draws unto 

 itself new material. The circle of this Society's influence is widening, as the 

 successful work of the last year fully demonstrates. Two new educational 

 features have been introduced for the benefit of the beginner — observation of 

 'field identification marks' of live birds and a study of mounted specimens of 

 the same species. 



Nature programs by able and scientific speakers; field-day excursions to 

 parks, canyons, and seashore; trail-trips on Saturdays for teachers, children, 

 and tourists, constitute the general activities of the Society, while the 'side 



