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 State Reports 265 widespread interest throughout the state in the well-being of birds, and a valuable educational influence is constantly at work. The children are being taught to observe bird -life about them, and find nests for themselves for the purpose of seeing the growth of the little birds from the egg, and such children will grow up with an appreciation of the valuable assistance afforded to man by the bird family. "As a state, we seem to be continually in a condition of warfare. This is a healthy condition, however, and the results each year have been such as to make the workers feel that our efforts to protect such birds as the Flicker, Mourning Dove, Robin and Meadowlark, have not been in vain. We feel that the many appeals to the press of the state, and the numerous letters sent to our representatives at Trenton, have borne some fruit. A serious effort was made last January to distribute some of the valu- able Educational Leaflets of the National Association among the farmers of the state, opportunity being taken to send over two thousand of these leaflets to the leaders of the various granges to distribute at their yearly meetings. Very interesting responses were received from some of these farmers, and let us hope that in the future the Hawks and Owls will receive a little more consideration from those individuals whose property they protect." — Miss Julia S. Scribner, Secretary. New York. — " The New York Audubon Society has had a normal in- crease of members, but no remarkable growth, since the last report. The present membership is 8,345. ' The renewed attempt to repeal the Anti-Spring Duck Shooting law, the introduction of the Foreign Game bill, and several bills of less impor- tance, were met by the usual vigorous action of our Law Committee. Mr. Dutcher; Mr. Chapman, representing the American Museum of Natural History; Dr. Palmer, of the Department of Agriculture, and Dr. Field, of Massachusetts, attended hearings at Albany in behalf of the Society. Their united efforts, together with the cooperation of prominent members of the Society throughout the state, were successful and the law was maintained. ' This year, for the first time, the Society has published an Annual Report; a new edition of the prospectus, and an edition of ten thousand law posters in English and Italian have been issued. Three thousand copies of each of the Educational Leaflets of the National Association were dis- tributed as soon as published. Several thousand postal cards, 'Feed the Birds in Cold Weather,' have been purchased from the Providence Humane So- ciety, to be put into circulation this fall. During the year over thirty-seven thousand leaflets and law posters have been distributed. Six thousand leaf- lets, besides many colored plates of the Educational Series of the National Association, were sent to the state fair at Syracuse. By request, six hun- dred leaflets were recently sent for distribution at the convention of the