146 OUR NATIVE BIRDS 
in bird protection. The society of St. Paul, Minn., 
has posted hundreds of the following placard : — 
“$5.00 REWARD 
For information which will lead to the arrest and conviction of 
any person killing or attempting to kill any harmless birds, or 
robbing or destroying the nests thereof. Boys with rubber slings 
or pop-guns are hereby warned. 
HUMANE SOCIETY, 
W. L. Wirson, President. 
Miss Anna V. Wriaut, Secretary. 
Chamber of Commerce Building.” 
In Our Dumb Animals of August, 1899, is found the 
following offer : — 
“PROTECTION OF BIRDS 
I hereby offer twenty prizes of $10 each, and forty prizes of $5 
each, for evidence by which our Massachusetts Society for the 
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall convict persons of violating 
the laws of Massachusetts by killing any insect-eating bird or 
taking eggs from its nest. 
Gro. T. ANGELL, President.” 
I enclose a list of the most important of these socie- 
ties in the United States and Canada. In many states 
a number of local societies are organized. For these 
and for information about similar societies in foreign 
countries the reader is referred to the report of 1899 of 
the American Society P. C. A., Madison avenue and 
Twenty-sixth street, New York. The list here given 
is taken from that report. Concerning the organization 
and the work of local societies, information can be ob- 
tained from the respective state society. 
