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Edited by MRS. MABEL OSGUUI) \VKIGHT (President of the Audubon Society of the State of

Connecticut), Fail’ﬁeld, Conn

to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon

and other Bird Protective Societies should he addressed. Reports, stc., designed for this department should he sent at least one month prior to the (late or publication.

DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES

With names and addresses oi their Secretaries

New Hampshire. Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New York“ New Jersey Pennsylvania. Delaware Mll'yltlndl District of Columbia Virginia. South Carolina. Florida l l Missouri

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Minnesota Wyoming. Kentucky. Tennenee California.

A Midwinter Meditation

Within the past dozen years the position of the song bird in the community has un— dergone a radical change, from being a tar— get for any and every gun, a prisoner for any» on: who would cage it, empaled on skewers for pan and hat alike, its eggs the acknowl- edged perquisite of every biped who chose to collect, it is today accorded a place as a citizen of the commonwealth and laws are being continually enacted that, it carried out, would aﬁord all the protection possible in a country whose material growth is con— tinually absorbing open common, woodland and river front.

With the change of sentiment has come :i like change in the methods of bird-study. The work of the analytic ornitliologist is justly respected as of old, hilt the trend is toward the study of the living bird, the

Run" E. RICHARDS. MRS. H. T. GRANT. JR., 187 Bowen street, Providence.

At‘Gt‘ST RE MRS D.

Miss MARV DRUMMOI

MRsl E W, BATCHELDEK. Manchﬁterr slits. Fl. HER K. BARRUWS, Bmtllcboro. Boston Society of Natural History, Boston.

Mk5. WILLIAM BROWN CLOVER. Fairﬁeld.

MA H. LOCKWDOD, 243 West Seventy-ﬁfth street, New York City. “Miss JI'LIA SCRIHNER, 510 E. Front street, Plainﬁeld, NJ. MRS. EDWARD ROIIXNS. I14 South Twenty-ﬁrst street, Philadelphia. MRS. WM. S. HILLES, Delauiore Place, \Vilmington, NM: WESTON WHITNEY, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. MR5. JOHN Dswuuxsr PATTE

3033 r street. \Nashington. ....,MRs, Flu XCK r2. TOWN, Glencnrlyn. vltss s. A. SM\'TH, chare street, Charleston. ,MRS. I. VANDERPOOL, Maitland, , 25“; North Fourteenth street,. . Louis, MCCLELLAND, 5255 Easlern ave, Cincinnati.

W. W. VVOOLEN, Indianapolis. , as West street, Wheaton. MR5. L. E. FELT. Keokuk. ,. Lnllgdon street. Madison,

Mrss SARAH L. rennin. 125 lnglehart street, St. Paul,

.. thS. N. R. DAVIS, Cheyenne.

.Il arm Crot-xmr. Henderson, . ,Mks. c. c. CONNER, Ripley. .Mks. GEORGE S. GAV. Redlands.

camera supplanting the gun; but just how far this is effective remains to be proved. One would think that this change should rob investigation of well-nigh all its dangers at least as far as Concerns the bird, but I am convinced it is oftentimes quite the reverse.

The miscellaneous collecting of eggs and the skins of song-birds in their attractive nesting plumage should of course be pro- hibited, but not more vehemently than cer- tain methods of gunless bird-study—I refer to the harrying of nesting birds in order to watch, and photograph perhaps, the various processes of incubation and nutrition: also the careless method of interesting children in watching and even handling nestlings to the point of driving parents to leave the nest without giving a thought to the rights of the birds in the matter.

The conscientious student who builds a

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