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winter. The female birds might have per- 

 ished in this way, thus accounting for more 

 males than females as well as the few 

 young birds this year. — A. J. Dadisman, 

 Morgantown, W . Va. 



Blackbirds and Meadowlarks in 

 California 



With unswerving regularity, worthy of 

 a better cause, the question as to whether 

 Meadowlarks and Blackbirds are a nuis- 

 ance in California continues to be raised 

 every year. At the coming session of the 

 legislature, bills in all human probability 

 will be introduced looking to the destruc 

 tion of these birds. Somebody will again 

 claim that Blackbirds are eating the grain 

 and Meadowlarks are destroying the 

 grape crop. 



The California Audubon Society, ever 

 watchful for the interests of the wild birds, 

 has just issued a six-page pamphlet con- 

 taining testimonies of some ranchers tend- 

 ing to show that the Meadowlark and 

 Blackbird are of real economic value. This 

 circular deserves to be given wide publicity 

 and it is difficult to see how any legislator 

 would approve of taking protection from 

 these two birds after reading such an inter- 

 esting document. 



Success to the California Audubon So- 

 ciety in its legislative efforts this year and 

 more power to Harriet Williams Myers, its 

 active and resourceful Secretary! 



New Sustaining Members Enrolled from 

 October 19, 1918 to January 1, 1919 



Abbott, Miss Ella L. 

 Adams, Silas B. 

 Armstrong, Edward E. 

 Beach, Miss Ehzabeth T. E. 

 Bennett, Ernest P. 

 Benson, Mrs. Louis F. 

 Biddle, Mrs. Thomas M. 

 Bilhngs, Mrs. C. K. G. 

 Bishop, J. E. 

 Blickensderfer, C. 

 Botsford, E. F. 

 Boyden, Harry H. 

 Brandt, Frederic F. 

 Breck, Frances S. 

 Brodland, Mrs. Lucas 

 Brooks, Mrs. Anson 



Brown, Miss Mary L. 

 Buchanan, Genl. James A. 

 Burk, Mrs. A. N. 

 Campbell, Mrs. Stuart 

 Caster, Benjamin 

 Chanler, Mrs. Winthrop 

 Chapman, Mrs. Eustace 

 Cheever, J. S. 

 Christian, Miss Susan 

 Clark, Miss Mary T. 

 Clarke, Miss Mary S. 

 Congdon, Miss Frances 

 Cowling, Sarah F. 

 Curtis, Eva C. 

 Danielson, Mrs. Richard 

 Dillon, Fred N. 

 Dinsmoor, John C. 

 Easton, Mrs. N. Howard 

 Eckstein, Miss Babette 

 Edge, Mrs. C. N. 

 Ehrmann, Dr. Fred J. E. 

 Elliot, Sarah J. 

 Finch, Mrs. Gertrude K. 

 Fox. Miss A. M. 

 Franke, Mrs. Albert 

 Gardner, Mrs. Arthur F. 

 Hamann, William A. 

 Hayward, Miss Emma 

 Herrmann, F. 

 Hill, Mrs. J. A. 

 Hill, Wilham H. 

 Hoover, Harris M. 

 Houghton, L. 

 Jennings, Philip B. 

 Kelly, Mrs. S. 

 La Boiteaux, Miss L. M. 

 Langdon, Roy M. 

 Legg, Mrs. J. Francis 

 Lindsey, Edward 

 Low, Mrs. Seth 

 Lyman, Miss Clara 

 McCarrell, Mrs. Robert L. 

 Mabie, Clarence 

 Madeira, Miss Elizabeth 

 Manning, Mrs. C. B. 

 Matheson, Mrs. W. I. 

 Mennen, William G. 

 Miller, Mrs. Ellen H. 

 Minnesota State Library 

 Minns, Master Frederick 

 Montgomery, Henry B. 

 Ostrander, Mrs. Charles L. 

 Partridge, Mrs. H. G. 

 Paul, Mrs. Gertrude, Sr. 

 Pease, Frank A. 

 Peterson, Charles S. 

 Pirie, John T. 

 Poole, Miss Grace H. 

 Porter, Mrs. Samuel 

 Potts, Master Harry 

 Richmond, F. E. 

 Riddell, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. 

 Rodgers, Miss H. T. 

 Rumford, Dr. Lewis 

 Rumsey, Bronson 



