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AGASSIZ ASSOCIATION 1 
A Large Gift for Wild Life Protection. 
It will be a source of pleasure and 
gratification to the friends of wild life 
generally to learn that on March i, 
1922, the National Association of Au- 
dubon Societies of New York City re- 
ceived a gift of $200,000. This splen- 
did donation was made by a friend of 
the birds and children who for many 
years past has contributed so gener- 
ously to the Association’s efforts in 
working with young people. The de- 
velopment of the Junior Audubon Club 
idea on a large scale has been made pos- 
sible only because of the generous sup- 
port thus received. 
All gifts from this friend of wild life 
have been made with the distinct un- 
derstanding that the name of the donor 
be withheld, and it is with regret that 
in making the present announcement 
we are not at liberty to divulge his 
name. 
The present contribution is intended 
as a partial endowment of the $20,000 
annual contribution which for a num- 
ber of years he has been making to the 
Audubon work. Accompanying the 
check was the stipulation that the 
money should be held and known as 
the “Permanent Fund of 1922.” Only 
the interest is to be used from time to 
time for current expenses and by the 
conditions of the gift it is to be ex- 
pended as follows : 
1. For the education of the general 
public in the knowledge and value of 
useful, beautiful and interesting forms 
of wild life, especially birds. 
2. For the actual protection and per- 
petuation of such forms of wild life on 
suitable breeding and other reserva- 
tions. 
3. For protecting and maintaining 
adequate protection for such forms of 
wild life in all parts of the Western 
Hemisphere. 
4. Or for any one of these purposes. 
In making this announcement Mr. T. 
Gilbert Pearson, President of the As- 
sociation, stated that this brings the 
permanent Endowment Fund of the 
Audubon Society up to $675,000. 
A Nature Study. 
BY ANNA PETRUNKEVITCH, NEW HAVEN, 
CONNECTICUT. 
White-breasted nuthatches are such 
cheerful, cocky little birds that it is al- 
ways a pleasure to have them about. 
Somehow they always seem to be 
happy, no matter what the weather. 
So to help them out during the months 
when everything is frozen and it is dif- 
ficult for them to find food, we have 
constructed a shelf outside the window 
of our sleeping-porch. This we always 
keep supplied with sunflower seeds, 
and sometimes other visitors beside the 
nuthatches are attracted to it. Almost 
all of these are welcome, but a few, the 
bushy-tailed grey squirrels especially, 
are not at all desirable. They try to 
drive away the nuthatches, and take 
what does not belong to them. Indeed, 
when the nuthatches have struggled 
hard for five minutes to secrete seeds in 
the cracks in the bark of our oak tree, 
the squirrels rush down the trunk after 
them, and feast themselves upon the 
property of others. 
In order to prevent the crafty little 
thieves from stealing the seeds from 
the shelf, made like a very shallow box, 
we covered this with a wire netting 
standing just high enough so that the 
nuthatches could feed easily through 
the meshes, which are too small for the 
paws of the squirrel to get through. 
This seemed to solve our problem in 
an ideal way, but what was our sur- 
prise one day to behold a furry image 
seated on the shelf, busily engaged in 
getting dinner ! And he was not using 
his paws! With a superb unconcern 
for the difficulty we had thrown in his 
way, he inserted his long red tongue 
between the meshes of the wire and 
licked up the seeds ! 
