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Edited by MRS. MABEL scrtmu \VRIGHT (President of the Audubon Society of the State of Connecticutl, Fairﬁeld, Conn.. to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies Should he 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 at their Secretaries

Maine .. New Hamvsl'lire Vermont .. Massachusetts Rhode Island. Connecticut. New York. New Jersey. Pennlylvama Delaware eryl-nd D trict a! Columbia. Vlrlinia .. North Carolina South Carolina Florida Missouri. Ohio

. Mrs. D. 2. McCL LLA b.5265 Eastern ave,.CinCin‘nati

.A. H. NoR‘roN, Westbrook. MKS. F, V. BATCHELDER. Manchester. MRS. FLEFCHER K. BARROWS. Brailleboro.

Miss HARRIET E, RlCHARDS, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. , Miss HARRIET C. RICHARDS. 43 Lloyd a\'e.. Providence.

MRS. \VlLLulu BRO\\'N CLOVER. Fairﬁeld.

MISS EMMA H. Locltwool), 243 West Sevelllyaﬁl’lll street, New York City. .Mlss lam SCKIHNER. 5m E From slreet, Plainﬁeld,N.J. MR5. lawman Rosrss, in South Twenty-ﬁrst street, Philadelphia.

..... ..Mrs. w“. 5. HILLES, Delalnore Place, Wilminglnn. . MISS ANNE V

Tort \Vnn-slsv. 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. nonsr PAT‘l. . 2212 R street Washington. slits. FR DEKICK E. Town, Glencarlyn. .T. Grunt-2m- Parson, Greensboro. Vliss s. A, 5mm, Legare street. Charleston.

,Mks. l.v,ts;psxrool_, Mnilland. mi north Fourteenth streetI St Louis

lndiana,. w. w. VVOOLEN, indianapolis. illinois Rt .nrrosnn, 203 West street, Wheatnn. lewa. .. NIKE. L. E. Fen, Kenkuk, Wisconsin. Mk RF. til: G. TllwAlTs, 260 Langdnn street. Madison. Minnesota. ,Mrss SARAH 1., runs“, 125 lnglehart street. St. Paul. Wyoming _M>ts. N. k. Dans. Cheyenne. Kentucky imam CRDK’KE‘IT. Henderson. Tennessee, .Mizs. C. C. Conner. Ripley. Califarnia Rs, tier)on s. GAV, Redlands.

Back to First Principles

The ﬁrst tenet of the Audubon movement was the suppression of the use oi bird plumage for millinery purposes. "sh long as women wear any but Ostrich feathers on their hats, so long will birds be killed to supply them "—ranged the protest in turn from every society that joined the ranks. After we had preached and talked this for several years. some of us began to feel that an impression had been made once and for all, and that it was no longer necessary to dwell so forcibly upon this phase of the work; people were getting bored, and we heard on all sides that the really nice people were at least giving up the wearing of egrets and the plumage of our native birds, We therefore ﬂattered ourselves that what

the ‘really nice‘ elect to do, must sooner or later be followed by lwi pol/0i, and turned our attention to the educational side of bird protection, i. e., teaching the masses to identify birds, to know their habits and economic valueI and so, logi- Cally, ‘conre to desire of their own volition to give birds the complete protection that is the end and aim of our work.

Not to bore people and to render the pledge suitable for the sterner sex, we said less and less about birds on bunnets and ap- pealed more to the love of outdoor life to gain our ends.

As a direct rPsult, laws have been passed in many states curbing and stopping the traﬁic in native birds and, carried by the Abbot Thayer fund. the cry of " Save the Gulls and Terns " has echoed along the en-

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