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resources, but we anticipate adequate assistance ere long. There has been a 

 demand for bird-boxes and numerous requests for information. I have taken 

 the matter up with Mr. Charles E. Chadsey, Superintendent of Detroit schools, 

 and Mrs. Herman Tryborn, in charge of the manual-training work, and they 

 are willing to have the children aid in every way possible in the making of 

 such boxes. I am now collecting documents on bird-nesting boxes and shelters. 



My report would not be complete if I did not mention Miss Clara Bates, 

 of Traverse City, who is doing such a splendid work in publishing a page 

 monthly on humane and Audubon work in one of the city papers. Mrs. Grace 

 Greenwood Brown, of Harbor Beach, is also helping out in this way. On 

 account of the cooperation given the humane societies of the state, I have 

 been commissioned a State Humane Marshal by Governor Osborn. 



I have requests to deliver forty-eight addresses during the autumn and 

 winter. I have collected 150 slides, which include both land- and water-birds, 

 which is probably the finest set in the state. I have induced a number of the 

 local humane societies to name Audubon committees. I will endeavor to 

 have all the humane societies in the state do so. 



Next summer I hope to be able to find some way to have one of the small 

 islands in Lake Erie set aside as a bird-reserve, and later to take up the question 

 in regard to Lake Huron. I am making a census of the water-birds of the 

 Great Lakes, and already have a fair start in this work. 



Mr. John Watkins, who gave the Michigan Audubon Society eighty 

 acres of land near Chassel, Michigan, received an opinion from the Attorney 

 General saying that such land is not taxable. Mr. Watkins reports a good 

 growth of young timber which will be valuable in a few years. We are working 

 for the future, as well as the present. Our motto is "Striving is winning." 



REPORT OF WILLIAM L. FINLEY, FIELD AGENT 

 FOR THE PACIFIC COAST STATES 



After a search covering several years, I am positive that but one colony 

 of White Herons remains in the state of Oregon, where thousands of these 

 birds formerly lived. A careful survey of the state has been made during the 

 past year. 



On July 15, 191 2, I visited this colony of American Egrets (Ardea egretta) 

 in the southeastern part of Oregon. This colony was first discovered in 191 1. 

 It is situated on an island perhaps one hundred acres in extent. On one end 

 of the island is a small bunch of willows. In addition to the White Herons, 

 Great Blue Herons and Black-crowned Night Herons are nesting in this 

 colony. Mr. L. Alva Lewis, who visited the colony earlier in the season, counted 

 eleven nests of American Egrets and twenty-three mature birds. He estimated 

 seventy Night Herons and forty Great Blue Herons in the colony. It con- 

 tained about the same number of birds last year. 



