26 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



News From The Field 



ALTON : A club known as the Alton Bird Club was organized in 

 March of this year, Mr. L. D. Yager being President and Mr. W. D. Arm- 

 strong, Secretary. An advisory board of twenty members was selected to 

 assist the officers of the organization. Articles have been published in 

 the local press and encouragement given the public schools to organize 

 Audubon Societies and to design bird boxes to be placed among the trees 

 bordering the school yard. 



CHARLESTON: The call for material for the Spring Bulletin 

 reached Prof. T. L. Hankinson's field class at the Eastern Illinois Normal 

 just as its members were leaving for spring vacation. However, their 

 leader and a few of the members managed to get out for an hour or so 

 in early morning of March 31, and thus Charleston is on the roll of the 

 Census and Migration Records. Of especial interest at this time at 

 Charleston, it seems, is the work in Bird Protection by the Boy Scouts 

 under the leadership of their Scout Master, Mr. Clarence Huffman. It is 

 hoped to publish a detailed report of some of their activities in the Autumn 

 Bulletin. 



CHICAGO, James H. Bowen High School: In this High School 

 there is a club of eighty-five members organized among the students of 

 Zoology, which is known locally as the "Bowen Bird Boosters." This 

 is the second year of its existence. It has a constitution and a corps of 

 officers and members pay dues of ten cents a month. Well attended 

 meetings have been held every two weeks at which time the club has 

 taken up current happenings in the bird world, life habits of strange and 

 interesting birds, causes and routes of migration, reports of birds seen, 

 etc. On March 31st. the club had a "Bluebird Day," all the members 

 on the program dealing with the Bluebird. Riley's poem on the Bluebird 

 was recited, the life habits of the bird discussed and a paper entitled 

 "Why the Bluebird" telling why it is so popular, etc., was given. The 

 club ends its year's work with a grand bird picnic. Miss Helen A. Loomis 

 is instructor in Zoology. 



CHICAGO HEIGHTS: The Boy Scout Troop of Chicago Heights 

 has done a conspicuously "good turn" for the birds in that city and 

 vicinity. For several years Italian hunters have gone about shooting birds 

 or catching them in snares and nets. These law-breakers have been so bold 

 as to threaten "to get" possible informers, and people have been afraid to 

 inform on them. Last Spring the Scout Troop, deciding to invoke the law, 

 sought out a policeman with courage enough to go with them beyond the 

 city limits, if necessary, and sallied forth. Two hours later, three offenders 

 were in court, caught red-handed with nets, bags and birds as witnesses. 

 The sentence, "Ten dollars each and costs and I'll give you the limit next 

 time," stopped bird killing last year, and our Scouts are alert to make an 

 example of the first offender this season. 



In addition to this police work, the boys have made boxes for trees on 

 school grounds and have furnished scores of boxes for citizens who wished 

 them for their own premises. It is due the Woman's Club in Chicago 



