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the Alaska Longspur, by E. W. Nelson; Crested Auklet, by Dr. C. H. Town- 

 send; Tufted Puffin, by W. L. Dawson; Catbird, by Witmer Stone; Chickadee, 

 by E. H. Forbush; and Green Heron and Brown Thrasher, by T. Gilbert 

 Pearson. 



In addition to the above, our first thirty leaflets issued have all been re- 

 written and fourteen of them provided with new colored illustrations. Our 

 entire series of Educational Leaflets has thus been rendered uniform as to 

 appearance and manner of treatment. The cost of ten of these early subjects 

 in which Mr. Dutcher was especially interested, was met from the income of 

 the Mary Dutcher Memorial Fund. 



GENERAL ITEMS 



During the year the Association expended $1,206.10 in cooperation with 

 others, in the construction of a stout wire fence enclosure on the Government 

 Niobrara Bird Reservation in Nebraska, to which a herd of bison, elk and 

 deer have since been removed. 



We purchased an island near Charleston, South Carolina, which is a 

 famous ancestral breeding-ground for Snowy Herons, and provided funds 

 to the Charleston Museum to replant with trees another heronry which had 

 been almost destroyed by axmen. 



We have contributed to the general or special work of several State Audu- 

 bon Societies and individual workers, and in other ways have sought to aid 

 and encourage organizations and individuals engaged in wild-life preserva- 

 tion. We have distributed over 700,000 colored pictures of birds, and more 



ON PELICAN ISLAND RESERVATION. INDIAN RIVER, FLORIDA. 

 NOTE PELICANS NESTING ON THE GROUND 

 Photographed by T. Gilbert Pearson. 



