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undertake to try to protect, for the reason 

 that they are in such isolated, unhealthy 

 situations that it is impossible to get men, 

 for any ordinary sum, to risk their health 

 or lives by taking up a station in those 

 desolate regions. 



We are exceedingly anxious at once to 

 send agents into other regions, to locate 

 new colonies of these fast-disappearing 

 birds. The very splendid success which 

 attended our efforts in this direction last 

 year, has encouraged our Board of Direc- 

 tors to call upon the public to assist in 

 this most humane undertaking. 



We need a fund of not less than $5,000 

 annually, for the next few years, to use 

 in seeking out and guarding colonies of 

 these birds, and also in pushing legislative 

 activity looking to the restriction of the 

 selling of the feathers of these birds in 

 those states which still permit this trafhc. 

 We earnestly urge every reader of 

 this article who feels that it is a cause 

 worthy of support to make some con- 

 tribution to the work; and, to be effec- 

 tive, our work of guarding colonies must 

 begin at once. 



Contributions of any amount will be 

 gratefully accepted, and acknowledgement 

 of the same will be made in Bird-Lore. 



Subscriptions to the Egret Protection 

 Work for 1912 



Reported in last issue $40 00 



Mrs. Herbert Beech 8 00 



Miss Helen Willard 2 00 



Dr. A. Helena Goodwin 5 00 



Mr. J. W. Johnston 10 00 



Miss Heloise Meyer 50 00 



Mr. Samuel Thorne 25 00 



Mr. Donald R. Dickey 5 00 



Miss Edith L. Stafford 5 00 



Mr. Earle F. Stafford 5 00 



Mr. Robert T. Moore 50 00 



Mr. Henry D. Moore 100 00 



"Atlanta" . 12 76 



Mr. P. B. Philipp 25 00 



Total $342 76 



New Members 



January i to March i, 191 2. 



Patron. 



Miss Heloise Meyer 



Life Members. 



Mr. Charles H. Rogers 

 Mr. Reinhold Haehnle 

 Mrs. W. H. Bliss 

 Mrs. Amanda M. Spalding 



Sustaining Members. 



Ackley, Miss Adeline E. 

 Ackerley, Mr. O. B. 

 Anderson, Mr. J. C. 

 Audubon Society of Vermont 

 Ault, Mr. L. A. 

 Ayer, Mrs. Edward 

 Barbour, Mrs. E. T. 

 Barbour, Miss I. T. 

 Bass, Mrs. Perkins 

 Bayne, Mr. S. G. 

 Bemish, Mrs. William H. 

 Benjamin, Mrs. A. Bedell 

 Biglow, Mrs. L. H. 

 Birdlovers' Club of Brooklyn 

 Blakiston, Miss Emma 

 Bliss, Miss Kate G. 

 Brooks, Mr. Walter D. 

 Brown, Mr. Davenport 

 Brown, Mrs. Frances F. 

 Burke, Mr. John G. 

 Burt, Miss. M. T. 

 Burton, Mr. Robert M. 

 Cady, Mr. William H. 

 Carhartt, Mr. Hamilton 

 Case, Mrs. Brinston 

 Chapman, Mrs. J. J. 

 Cheney, Mrs. B. P. 

 Cheney, Mrs. C. G. 

 Clark, Mr. George H. 

 Clark, Mrs. Le Vert 

 Coe, Miss Ella S. 

 Colby, Mrs. F. C. 

 Comstock, Miss B. L. 

 Congdon, Mrs. H. L. 

 Codies, Mrs. C. A. 

 Covell, Mr. H. H. 

 Cram, Miss Lily C. 

 Crane, Miss Ellen J. 

 Crans, Miss Laura C. 

 Crosby, Mr. G. N. 

 Crouse, Mr. J. Robert 

 Day, Miss Sarah J. 

 Dawes, Miss Emily M. 

 Dimock, Mr. Ira 

 Ellis, Mrs. A. V. H. 

 Erbsloh, Mr. M. 

 Fearhake, Mrs. E. R. 

 Flagg, Mrs. S. G., Jr. 

 Ford, Miss S. D. 

 Foulke, Mr. W. B. 

 Garitt, Miss E. W. 

 George, Mr. Edwin S. 

 Gibson, Mrs. J. H. 

 Goddard, Mr. G. A. 

 Goff, Mrs. F. H. 

 Goler, Mrs. Frank H. 

 Goodrich, Mrs. J. S, 



