THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



SPRING 1920 



Published by the 



ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 



(For the protection of wild birds) 



The President of the Illinois Audubon Society writes : 



This number of the Bulletin reviews the progress made during the year 

 since the last preceding issue, the Conservation Number, appeared. It 

 teils of the revision of the state laws in the interest of better safe-guarding 

 of bird life, and reveals the honorable part the Illinois Audubon Society 

 had in this w 7 ork. The concerted campaign on the part of the state game 

 wardens to interest the school children in their respective districts and the 

 public in general in protecting bird life is described. There is a story of 

 activity in law enforcement in certain districts. The history of Fox Lake 

 lefuge is told. Experiences with bird houses are given. A constructive 

 program for state parks is outlined and bird study in the schools is given 

 concrete exposition. There are idylls of boyhood on stream and prairie 

 and following all these are field notes from widely sundered posts of ob- 

 servation within the state. A hopeful note runs throughout all the follow- 

 ing pages and it is left for a single paragraph of this page to refer to things 

 not of the brightest hue. 



The campaign to finance greatly expanded activities of the Society 

 which was outlined one year ago has met with limited success. All to the 

 good is the wide publicity it gave to the aims and possible accomplishments 

 of the Society, but it remains true that the occupation of certain promising 

 fields of endeavor by the Society must await resources of membership and 

 finance not yet at hand. Perhaps our campaign should have centered more 

 directly upon the co-operation of our members in greatly expanding the 

 membership list with the point of view, as a down-state member expressed 

 it, that "active support and co-operation is worth more to our Society than 

 a donation." This suggests the need of closer contact between the Directors 

 of the Society and individual members. Someone advocates issuing each 

 \ear nine monthly news bulletins and one illustrated "annual." Another 

 favors holding an annual convention and "field meet." The Indiana Audu- 

 bon Society has done this for some years with marked success. Anyway, the 

 subject is open for discussion. The Directors of the Society will appre- 

 ciate a very general response. 



Orpheus M. Schantz, President. 



