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 VLl)c ^utiubon Societies " )'ou cannot 7vith a scalpel find tlif pod' s soul, Plor yet the wild bird's song." Edited by Mrs. Mabkl Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed 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. Batchkldkr, Manchester. Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. Connecticut Mrs. Wim.iam Brown Glover, Fairfield. New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. New Jersey, Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N.J. Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. 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 W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 208 West street, Wheaton. Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Laiigdon street, Milwaukee. Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. Wyoming Mrs. N. R. Davis, Cheyenne. Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. The New Bird Laws ^|] xe state legislatures have given more The fact that the Department of Agri- or less attention to game protection, the culture announces the publication of a length of the open season has been in many digest of the game laws of the United cases curtailed and the majority have some States calls attention to the radical changes form of non-export law, while in many made in these laws during the past three states non-residents are not alloweil to hunt years. without taking out a license, for which We believe that the long day of promis- they must pay. cuous slaughter for any and all purposes is Of the eastern coast states Maine, New drawing to a close. Whether there is yet Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, time to reestablish the larger game birds Connecticut, New York, New Jersey and in their haunts remains to be proved, but Florida are practically under the uniform already we hear in many directions of the A. O. U. law variously modified or ex- increase of song-birtis, and the pleasant paneled, the C^arolinas, Virginia and Georgia interview of (jarret Newkirk with a Mis- being, unfortunately, gaps in the chain, souri farmer that we publish this month is Connecticut has seemingly gone more significant. thoroughly into the matter than any other During the past year an almost similar state, and is the only one, so far, we be- code has been adopted by ('alifornia, Con- lieve, to check pot-hunting, not only by necticut, Indiana, Michigan, Missouri, forbidding the export of game, but also Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New by forbidding its sale for two years. The Jersey, Florida and Arizona Territory. law reads, "Shipments of all game out of (180)