" Vou cannot witk a scalpel Jind (he poet's soul. 

 Nor yet the ivild bird's song." 



Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGOOD WRIGHT and W^ILLIAM DUTCHER 



Coniniunications 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. ScoTT WAV, Pasadena 



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 Florence A. Howe, Hillside Ave., Indianapolis. 



Iowa Mrs. W. F. Parrott, Waterloo. 



Kentucky Miss Juliet O. Ai.ves. Henderson. 



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



Maine Mrs. C. B. Tuttle, Fairfield. 



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



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



Michigan Jefferson Bi'tler, Suite 79, Home Bank Building, Detroit. 



Minnesota Miss Je.ssik Whitman, 2356 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. Lock wood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. 



North Carolina T. Gilbert Pearson, Greensboro. 



North Dakota Miss Elizabeth L Abbott, Grand Forks. 



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



Oklahoma Mrs. Adei.ia Holcomb, Enid. 



Oregon A. VV. Anthony (Pres't), 900 Thurman street, Portland. 



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



Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, 187 Boweii street. Providence. 



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



Tennessee MRS. C. C. Conner. Ripley. 



Xexas Miss Hope Terhine, La Porle. 



Vermont Mrs. Fletcher K. Barrows, Brattleboro. 



Virginia MR- E- C. Hough, Falls Church. 



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



Wyoming Mrs. Cordelia Chivin(Vton. Cheyenne. 



The Lodging and Feeding of Birds 



card giving concise directions for feeding to 

 all local secretaries and members who are 



While it is to be hoped that the coming school teachers, for in this way a chain of 



winter may be less severe than the last, in all feeding stations can be established through - 



but the southern states winter at best is a out the country. 



period of hardship for the birds, and not This matter of feeding is not the careless 



alone for the species that gather about dwel- affair that it seems; but in order to be effec- 



ings, making a direct appeal to one's five must be conducted systematically and 



sympathies; but for the game-birds no less, intelligently. 



while these last are more apt to be neglected A random scattering of crumbs is not 



because we of necessity see less of them. feeding birds in general ; but English 



It would be well if the secretary of each Sparrows in particular. Discrimination 



State Audubon Society could issue a post- must be used, and an edged-shelf (perforated 



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