Ctje ^utiubon ^octettes 



" Vou cannot with a scalpel find the poet's soul, 

 A'or yet the wild bird's sons-." 



Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT and WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Communicalions relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should 

 be addressed to Mrs. Wright, at Fairfield, Conn. Reports, etc., designed for this department should be 

 Sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. 



DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES 



With names and addresses of their Secretaries 



California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. 



Colorado Mrs. Martha A. Shute, Denver. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. 



Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore Place, Wilmington. 



District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 2212 R street, Washington. 



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Georgia Professor H. N. Starnes, of Experiment. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. 



Kentucky Miss Juliet O. Alves, Henderson. 



Louisiana Miss Anita Pring, 1449 Arabella St , New Orleans. 



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Fairfield. 



Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. 



Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 229 8th ave., S. E., Minneapolis. 



Missouri August Reese, 2516 North Fourteenth street, St. Louis. 



Nebraska Miss Jov Higgins, 544 South 30th street, Omaha. 



New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. 



New Jersey , Miss Julia Scribner, 510 E. Front street, Plainfield, N. J. 



New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 820 West Ninth street, Cincinnati . 



Oklahoma Mrs. Adelia Holcomb, Enid. 



Oregon Miss Gertrude Metcalfe, 634 Williams ave., Portland. 



Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. 



Rhode Island Martha R. Clarke, 89 Brown street. Providence. 



South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia Mrs. J. C. Plant, Glencarlyn. 



Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaites, 260 Langdon street, Madison. 



Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne 



A TX7„ A .« »u \XT- r> between seasons of sowing and reaping and 



A Word to the Wise Concerning ^ f t^ 



~ p doing direful things in lanes and along field 



edges with stub scythe and bush -hook, two 



In many of the various reform movements instruments that, to my mind, should be 



it is not always a question of what to do, proscribed by law; but lately a new element 



but what to let alone. In our eflforts to give has entered the field, — the amateur who buys 



the native birds all the legal protection up the old farm, in a sightly location, for a 



possible we must remember that we can in summer home, and this class is now legion, 



no way coerce the birds themselves to remain This biped usually has some sense of the 



in given localities, if we by our zeal for so- picturesque, and yet the first thing he does 



called agricultural thrift and village im- is to hire a stupid Slav to "clean up'" the 



provement render those places unsuitable underbrush while he is formulating his 



for bird residence. plans. Now take it the year round, under- 



The farming population in general has brush, i.e., briers, bushes of all sorts, from 



always had a fatal habit of going out in the the spreading juniper growing beneath the 



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