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the coming winter include several lectures by bird-lovers. We find that it is 

 better to have a small society of bird members who are really interested and will 

 work than to strive for numbers. The heronry at Mrs. Daniel Lord's estate is 

 truly a remarkable thing, and seems to be growing rapidly in numbers. — (Miss) 

 Margaret S. Green, Secretary. 



Saratoga (N. Y.) Bird Club. — We have held nine monthly meetings during 

 the past year. Readings have been given from Burroughs, Harold Baynes, 

 Herbert Job, Wells W. Cooke, and others. An illustrated lecture was given in 

 January by Edward Avis, and one in March by Dr. Arthur Allen, of Cornell 

 University. To these the public was invited without charge. Papers have been 

 read by Dr. Calvin O. May, of New York City, and Miss Georgia Benedict, 

 Librarian in the State Library at Albany. 



Peculiar bird-nests have been exhibited, one that of the Arizona Wooded 

 Oriole, being sent to our president from California. In construction the 

 Chimney Swift's nest was hke a log-cabin and shone as if it had been varnished. 

 ^ Cape May Warbler, the first seen in this vicinity for twenty years, was 

 reported by Mr. Rich, our president. Our Club has sent contributions to both 

 the Roosevelt Memorial Fountain and to the Orchard in France funds. Since 

 last year, death has claimed three of our most faithful members: Miss Mary L. 

 Shepherd, Mrs. Margaret Trim, and Dr. Calvin O. May. Our last meeting was 

 held in the country on a farm formerly on the old post road. Hummingbirds 

 and hospitality made the day memorable. — Caroline C. Walbridge, Secre- 

 tary. 



Scranton (Pa.) Bird Club. — Our Club was organized March, 1915, and, 

 following a lecture at the Century Club, by E. H. Baynes, was affiliated with 

 the National Association of Audubon Societies in March, 1919. 



Besides the usual problems of pioneer work and the difficulties peculiar 

 to the wild-hfe conservation movement, we faced the additional handicap of 

 a mining and industrial community, the majority of the population being 

 foreign-born. With such a setting, the problem was whether a subtle thing 

 like an interest in birds could survive at all, born as it was under the shadow of 

 a culm bank from where it cried out for green fields, trees and gardens, and, 

 above all, for education in an apparently heretofore unopened book. The fact 

 that it has survived and is in a healthy condition today is due, first, to the 

 vital interest of the subject itself, then to the faithfulness of the officers. 



Our membership numbers 650, of which 283 are Juniors. There are no dues, 

 the expenses so far being met by members who have made voluntary contri- 

 butions. Regular meetings are held at the change of seasons and on Arbor 

 Days, with special meetings whenever there seems a special need, which brings 

 the average to at least one a month. These are held at the Everhart Museum 

 when not out-of-doors, and are all well attended. The activities include the 



