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Bird - Lore 



IHK LOS ANGELES AUDUBON SOCIETY'S BIRD-FOUNTAIN 

 Photographed by Mrs. F. T. Bicknell 



We were glad to contribute $50 toward the Roosevelt Memorial Bird- 

 Fountain. Members have donated a new case in which to house our fast ac- 

 cumulating possessions — charts, maps, birds' nests, flags, honor roll and books, 

 for we now have quite a library, consisting of eight bound volumes of Bird- 

 Lore, one special Index to Bird-Lore, forty-three Government Bulletins 

 bound in twenty-nine covers. Educational Leaflets Nos. i to 94, and other books 

 of local interest. Our official speaker has given lectures before the Women's 

 Clubs, P. T. A., at the libraries and schools with great success. 



Two new educational features have been added to the regular monthly 

 indoor meetings of the Society — one telHng of the birds in migration at that 

 particular time of year by our official speaker, Mrs. G. H. Schneider, and the 

 other a demonstration of some one particular bird's nest by our press chairman, 

 Miss H. S. Pratt. These have proven very attractive to the new members. 

 One of our new members is gifted in music — whistling the notes of our birds 

 with wonderful accuracy and sweetness, which adds much to our programs. 

 With two of our members on the Los Angeles District Board, C. F. W. C. — 

 Miss Helen Pratt as chairman of Birds and Wfld Life in the place of Mrs. 

 F. T. Bicknell who has been elected treasurer of that Board — we keep in close 

 touch with the club work of the whole Federation and feel its broadening 

 influence. 



Our president has responded to nineteen calls for educational talks illus- 

 trated with bird-skins or -slides from her own photographs of our western 

 birds. Her talk on the economic value of birds at the library exhibit was of 

 unusual interest. 



