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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 

 SPRING 1920 



Published by the 



ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 

 For the Conservation of Bird-Life 



COMMITTEE 

 ON PUBLICATION 



JESSE LOWE SMITH, Chairman 

 Highland Park 



RUTHVEN DEANE 

 112 W. Adams St., Chicago 



MARY DRUMMOND 



Lake Forest 



BERTHA T. PATTEE 



Evanston 



CATHERINE MITCHELL 

 Riverside 



ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ 

 10 So. La Salle Street, Chicago 



FREDERICK H. PATTEE 

 626 S. Clark St., Chicago 



This page is given up to suggestions to 

 Audubon societies, nature study clubs, and 

 similar organizations. For these organiza- 

 tions the adoption of some project or 

 concerted activity is an essential to well- 

 being. 



Select a given area for intensive study of 

 bird visitors and bird residents. A spe- 

 cially suitable area should be partly wood- 

 ed, have a dwelling house and orchard, 

 meadow, etc., and contain twenty or more 

 acres. Address E. W. Nelson, Chief of the 

 United States Biological Survey of Wash- 

 ington, D. C, for printed forms to be used 

 in a similar study of an area under his 

 directions. In a general way a nesting 

 record for a given locality worked out in 

 as much detail as possible constitutes an 

 excellent club project and is of permanent 

 value. Lists such as that made by Mr. 

 Isaac Hess of Philo of one hundred eight 

 birds found nesting within a ten mile 

 radius of his home in Champaign County, 

 that of Mr. C. E. Vandercook of Odin of 

 ninety birds found nesting in Clinton 

 County, or that of the Rockford Nature 

 Study Club are valuable contributions to 

 the studv of bird life in Illinois. 



A complete cat census for one's locality. 

 This usually reveals a much larger cat 

 population than ordinarily supposed. This 

 census should be supplemented by cumula- 

 tive data, as accurate as possible, of the 

 destruction of birds by cats during the 

 season. The effect upon public sentiment 

 in a locality thus studied is always very 

 favorable — to the birds. 



A drive to extend the interest in organ- 

 ization. Get up a big display of nesting 

 boxes, pictures, photographs, books on 

 birds, etc. Offer prizes for exhibits. Have 

 the lantern slides of the Illinois Audubon 

 Society visit the town or city. 



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Study the laws for bird protection 

 printed elsewhere with comment in this 

 Bulletin. Let committees call on each con- 

 stable and policeman in the area and 

 sheriffs and deputy sheriffs wherever at 

 hand and point out in a friendly way their 

 duties under the law. Do not forget to 

 remind them of the fees involved. Visit 

 every hunter and invite his cooperation in 

 securing law enforcement. Publish the 

 synopsis of the law in the local paper. The 

 Illinois Audubon Society will send free of 

 charge sufficient copies of this Bulletin to 

 give one to each officer interviewed. Write 

 to Chief Warden R. T. Bradford, Spring- 

 field, for copies of the game law. Ask for 

 the address of the nearest inspector and 

 warden. Report law violations to these 

 latter or to Springfield if local officials are 

 inactive. Secure from the Illinois Audubon 

 Society a supply of postcard warnings in 

 Italian to give to hunters of that national- 

 ity. 



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Help the schools to become one hundred 

 per cent Audubon Societies or bird clubs. 

 (Every grade room in Batavia is an 

 Audubon Club.) Address the National 

 Association of Audubon Societies, 1974 

 Broadway, New York City, for Junior club 

 literature. For details see inside of the 

 back cover of this Bulletin. Raise a sup- 

 plementary fund for each teacher so that 

 every pupil may join the Audubon Society. 

 The Illinois Audubon Society will send 

 free of charge a copy of this Bulletin to 

 every teacher organizing a bird class. 



