The Audubon Societies 



403 



Amount brought forward. . . .$9,968 73 

 Hosmer, Mrs. Estelle dePeyster 10 00 



Jenkins, Miss L 5 00 



Johnston, John White 35 00 



Keim, Thomas D 1 00 



Lovering, Mrs. Q. W 1 00 



Moore, Mrs. E. C 1 00 



Moore, Henry D 10 00 



Moore, Robert Thomas 5 00 



Morgan, Miss C. L 5 00 



McCormick, Mrs. R. Hall. ... 5 00 



Osborne, Arthur A 2 00 



Parsons, Miss Katharine L... . 2 00 



Patton, Mrs. Margaret S 5 00 



Pegram, Mrs. Edward S 5 00 



Pepper, Mrs. William 5 00 



Poage, Miss Alice 1 00 



Shaffer, C. B 25 00 



Shoemaker, Mrs. Wm. B 5 00 



Stevens, F. E 1 00 



Troup, Charles A. S 2 00 



Varick, Mrs. Remsen 1 00 



Wier, Mrs. Frederick N 2 00 



Zimmerman, M. W 5 00 



$10,107 73 

 Less error in bookkeeping; also 



transfers 102 50 



Income to October 20, 1913 . . . $10,005 2 3 

 Expenses as per Annual Rept. . 9,571 45 



Balance unexpended $433 78 



Bird Life in Forester Island, Alaska 



During the past summer, the Associa- 

 tion contributed five hundred dollars 

 toward the expenses of an investigation of 

 the bird rookeries of Forester Island, in 

 southeastern Alaska, which was con- 

 ducted by Dr. Harold Heath of Stanford 

 University, California, under the aus- 

 pices of the United States Fish Commis- 

 sion and this Association. 



Unfortunately, Dr. Heath's report was 

 not received in time to be included in the 

 Annual Report, as we had expected. It 

 is hoped to print this report in full in a 

 later issue. 



Forester Island is now a Federal 

 Reservation and is located off the mouth 

 of Dixon Entrance, thirteen miles south- 

 east of Dall Island. It is four and one- 



half miles in length by one mile in great- 

 est width and rises abruptly from the sea 

 to a height of thirteen hundred and 

 ninety-five feet. It is covered with a 

 dense growth of spruce and hemlock over 

 fully nine-tenths of the surface, most oi 

 the intermediate spaces being over- 

 grown with almost impenetrable thickets 

 of salmonberry, elderberry, and devil's 

 club, intermingled with innumerable moss- 

 grown windfalls. 



The native Indians report that fifty 01 

 seventy-five years ago the country was 

 much more open than it is today, with 

 grass-covered slopes extending to the 

 vicinity of the shore. 



It is under the control of the Forest 

 Service, in charge of a warden detailed 

 by the Biological Survey. 



Local fishermen state that there are 

 more land-birds on Forester Island than 

 in any other locality of a similar size 

 within a radius of two hundred miles. Dr. 

 Heath fully identified twenty-one species 

 of land-birds as follows: Duck Hawk, 

 fairly common and breeding; Sawwhet 

 Owl, one seen; Rufous Hummingbird, 

 several noted; Western Flycatcher, several 

 adults and young observed; Northern 

 Raven, a common nesting bird; North- 

 western Crow, numerous; Crossbill, several 

 flocks noted; Oregon Junco, a few observed 

 and one nest with young found; Song 

 Sparrow, species doubtful, common; 

 Townsend's Fox Sparrow, abundant; 

 Lutescent Warbler, several seen; Pileola- 

 ted Warbler, one or two seen each week 

 through the summer; Western Winter 

 Wren, abundant everywhere and nest- 

 ing; Tawny Creeper, a few individuals 

 seen; Red-breasted Nuthatch, one speci- 

 men seen; Chestnut-sided Chickadee, 

 small flocks seen; Western Golden-crowned 

 Kinglet, common and nesting; Dwarf 

 Hermit Thrush, common and several 

 nests found; Northwestern Robin, a few 

 individuals noted; Varied Thrush, com 

 mon and nesting. 



