Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 451 



arrest of violators of the game-laws and advertising same in the local papers. 

 A resolution was passed and sent to the Wisconsin Game Protective Association, 

 concerning the erection and maintenance of game-refuges throughout the 

 state. Protection and maintenance of state game-refuges was taken up with 

 the State Conservation Commission. Bird-house pamphlets were distributed 

 among the Boy Scouts. 



The Society voted to join in the effort being made by the W. G. P. A. 

 looking toward the establishment of a permanent fund for maintaining a field 

 secretary and providing for the expenses of that Association. The Society is 

 planting its bird-refuge, is providing food for the birds, and expects to put up 

 wooden nesting-boxes this fall to provide shelter for the hole-dwellers during 

 the coming winter. A resolution requesting the modification of, and. opposing 

 in its present form, the destruction of birds and animals, as proposed by Wis- 

 consin Conservation Commission, was adopted and forwarded to the Commis- 

 sion. Prizes were offered to Boy Scouts of Milwaukee County by the Society 

 on a competitive basis for the best record made concerning information on 

 local wild life. 



A prize essay competition, open to members of this Society, members of 

 the clubs enrolled in W. G. P. A., and individual members of that Asso- 

 ciation, also Wisconsin members of American Game Protective Association, 

 has been inaugurated, circulars of which are enclosed. Our Society now has 125 

 active members and a considerably larger list of non-active members whose 

 interest we hope to reawaken. — Charles I. Foster, Secretary. 



Winter Park (Fla.) Bird Club.— The Winter Park Bird Club, affiliated 

 with the Florida Audubon Society and the National Association of Audubon 

 Societies, completed its first year last March. Its special activity is the super- 

 vision of the Winter Park Bird Sanctuary, the first municipal sanctuary to be 

 tried out in the state, and the success of which is much commended by our bird- 

 loving residents and winter visitors. 



During the year, ten well-attended meetings were held, at which brief 

 bird-talks, field observations, reports on local conditions and interesting 

 ornithological notes and gleanings were the principal items of the programs 

 given. Two bird-talks, illustrated by lantern-slides, were given by the secretary. 

 The membership is upwards of eighty, with an average attendance of forty, 

 and the Club has been fortunate in gaining the active interest of many bird- 

 lovers from other states who spend the colder months at Winter Park. 



The activities of this Club, with its splendid personnel and lively interest 

 in the cause of wild bird-conservation, together with the success of the sanc- 

 tuary, has caused Winter Park to become the best known and most widely 

 talked of "Bird Town" in Florida, and tidings of its good work are carried by 

 our winter visitors to many distant states. Our active work for the present 

 season will begin in October. 



