Cl)e ^utiubon ^octettes 



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

 Nor yet the wild bird's song." 



Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT and WILLIAM DUTCHER 



Communications 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 W. Scot r Way, Pasadena. 



Colorado Mrs. Martha A. Shijte, Denver. 



Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glovkr, Fairfield. 



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



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



Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. 



Georela Professor H. N. Starnks, of E.xperinient. 



Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. 



Indiana Florknce A. Howe, Hillside A\e., Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. W. F. Parrott, Waterloo. 



Kentucky Miss Juliet O. .\lves. Henderson. 



Louisiana Miss Anita Pring, 1682 Peters ave. , New Orleans. 



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tutti.e, Fairfield. 



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



Massachusetts Miss Jessie E. Kimball, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. 



Michigan Jefi'KRSon Butler, Suite 79, Home Bank Building, Detroit. 



Minnesota Miss Jessie Whitman, 2;vs6 Bayless ave., St. Paul. 



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



Nebraska Miss Joy 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. 



North Dakota Miss Elizaiskth L .\bhott, Grand Forks. 



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



Oklahopia Mrs. Adelia Holcomb, Enid. 



Oregon A. W. Anthony (Pres't), 900 Thurnian street, Portland. 



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



Rhode Island Mrs. H. l". Grant, 187 Boweii street. Providence. 



South Carolina M>ss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. 



Tennessee MRS. C. C. Conner, Ripley. 



Texas Miss Hope Thrhune, La Porte. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia........................... Mr. E. C. Hoit.h, Falls Church. 



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



Wyoming Mrs. Cordelia Chivington, Cheyenne- 



Conscience and the Game Laws 



the evening before the day of open season, 

 to snare game, or even in season to shoot 

 It is all very well, the passing of adequate the summer-hatched flocks of immature or 

 laws for the protection of game-birds, but 'bumblebee' quail, will not for a moment 

 the conscience of the average sportsman is hesitate to ship game from a state that pro- 

 such a complex organization that its cogs hibits the practice, or carry game from the 

 invariably slip or fail to move altogether southern states that have a prolonged season 

 when called upon to recognize certain sub- into states where the season has long since 

 clauses of the very laws that he has labored closed. 



to have passed. The fact that he is oftentimes violating 



The man who would rightly consider it a federal as well as state law moves him not 



heinous crime against sport to shoot a bird at all. Into his trunk, steadied by his 



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