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 '" y'ojt cannot -,ctth a scalpri Jimi Ihr port's soul, I^ or yet the wild bird's sont; ." Edited by Mrs. MAiiKt. Osgood Wrigm r ( Piesiik'iit of the Audiilion Society of the Stale of Connecticut), I'aiifield, Conn., to whom all coinimiiiicalions rclalini; to tlie work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., desijjned for this department should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES With names and addresses of their Secretaries New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batcheldkr, Manchester. Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr.. 1S7 Bowen street. Providence. Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. New York Miss Emma H. Lockvvood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland. 53 Sand ford ave., Plainfield, N.J. Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten. 3033 P street, Washinjjton. Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore place, Wilmington. Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool. Maitland. Ohio Mrs. D Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. Indiana ^^ • ^^ • Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. lQ,^a, Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin Mrs. George W. Prckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Pitnam, 125 In.e;lehart street, St. Paul. Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner. Ripley. Wyoming Mrs. John A. Riner, Cheyeinie. California Mrs. George S. Gav, Redlands. Song Bird Reservations When the progress of civilization, via the demands of an agricultural and manufac- turing people, encroached upon and finally overran the hunting grounds of the North American Indian, tracts of land were re- served for him where he might live partly by his own industry and partly by bestowed rations, this method being only successful in a degree, owing to the uneconomic na- ture of the individual so aided. Now that the same civilization is reducing the woodlands and wild tracts that for ages have been the birds" hunting grounds, should not they too be provided with suit- able reservations, where the food natural to such places shall be sufficiently supple- mented and the supply placed beyond the vicissitudes of weather, etc.? For, unlike the roving Indian, the bird is as great an encourager of the agriculture that often de- (i prives it of its time-honored haunts, as the farmer who sows the seed. Everything that is said in the following paper regarding the practicability of com- bining farms in great preserves for game birds can be even more easily accomplished for Song Bird Reservations, it being gen- erally conceded that the day has passed when it is enough to satisfy the demands for bird protection by simply ceasing to kill. Not only may owners of large estates arrange suitable winter shelter for resident birds and establish feeding places where daily rations are distributed, but small land owners may pledge themselves, combine, and by systematic arrangement convert whole s(juares in suburban towns into these reservations, appointing one member of the union as "food agent" for a specified time, so that there may be no forgetting, for that "every one's business is nobody's business" 14)