Chapter IV: Front Matter (4)

"The citizens of Florida welcome tourists from other states; we are happy to share our excellent fishing and shooting with them within legal and decent limits, which, I am glad to say, the great majority of those who sojourn among us carefully and cheerfully observe; but we do not propose to allow our plumage and insectivorous birds to be slaughtered to provide fun for thoughtless and reckless gunners whether residents or visitors.

"You are too foxy to say whether you yourself succeeded in killing any of these birds, but I hereby give you notice that if you ever again set foot on our soil, and I am apprised of the fact, I shall see that you have an opportunity to tell your story in the courts. If proof can be had of your personal guilt, you will be punished to the full limit of the law, in both the state and federal jurisdictions, for a misdemeanor so unsportmanlike and inexcusable."

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=PHOTOGRAPHING WATER-FOWL=

To watch at close range the wildfowl accumulated on the Ward-McIlhenny reservation in the marshes of Louisiana is the privilege of a lifetime.

Mr. Herbert K. Job not only had this privilege for about six weeks during last December and the early weeks of January, but he procured a remarkable series of photographs of water-birds that make that region their winter home. From the moving pictures that he made the Association now has a thousand-foot reel, showing Pintails, Teals, and other Ducks, as well as Boat-tailed Grackles and Coots.

To ornithologists, the most interesting pictures he obtained were those of the Blue Geese. The chief summer home of these birds is supposed to be on the islands north of the American continent, and most, if not all of them, pass the winter in the marshes of Louisiana. I know of no case heretofore where they have been photographed in large numbers at close range.

The accompanying illustrations were all made by Mr. Job on this expedition, and will give some idea of the results of his skill and patience in the use of a moving-picture camera.

=BIRDS AND THE COLD SPELL=

On the morning of February 5, 1916, there was received at the office of the National Association the following telegram:

"The State Game Warden, Topeka, Kansas, reports his state covered with three to nine inches of sleet and ice. Birds starving by wholesale. State organizing campaign for food. Can you assist? Immediate action necessary. E. W. NELSON, Acting Chief, Biological Survey."

We immediately telegraphed to the State Game Warden of Kansas offering $200 for the purchase of grain. Shortly afterward the following telegram was received from Honorable Carlos Avery, State Game Commissioner of Minnesota:

"Conditions critical for Quail on account of unprecedented depth of snow and extreme cold. Funds insufficient to care for them adequately. Can you include Minnesota for appropriation for this purpose?"

This second call for help, together with word received from other directions, indicated that the snow and ice-cap had extended generally over a number of the northern states of the Middle West. We at once wired to the officials of some of the organizations in several of these states, and also sent telegrams to thirty-five members of the Association, telling them of the situation and asking for contributions to be used in the purchase and distribution of food for the birds. Many of the members immediately responded, and in a remarkably short time we had collected and telegraphed to the Cleveland Bird-Lovers' Association $200, to the President of the South Dakota State College $200, and to the Minnesota Game Commission $600.

We also telegraphed the Postmaster General in Washington asking that rural mail-carriers in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska be authorized to distribute grain to be supplied them for the purpose. The Third Assistant Postmaster General at once gave the instructions requested.

Mrs. Elizabeth C. T. Miller, President of the Cleveland Bird-Lovers' Association, sent notices to all on her large membership list, called upon the people generally through the press, and set other movements in operation looking to the good of the birds.

The South Dakota State College is the largest educational institution in the State, enrolling over eleven hundred members. President E. C. Perisho, who is a lover of wild birds and, incidentally, one of the most influential and public-spirited educators of the West, called a mass meeting of his students and laid the situation before them. The following is from one of his letters, and will give some idea of what resulted.

"We are doing everything possible at this end to save the birds of South Dakota. I thought perhaps you would be interested to know that our organization for this purpose is as follows:

"1. The State College has written to four hundred or five hundred boys and girls, members of the Boys' and Girls' Clubs of the state, asking them to scatter grain and make some protection to save the Field Sparrows, Quails, and Prairie Chickens especially.

"2. The entire extension force of the College, including all the short-course demonstrators, district men, etc., have been written to and are coöperating with us.

"3. All the county agents of the state are interesting the school children of their counties, and a number of farmers and the rural mail carriers.

"4. The commercial clubs in all the large towns of the state, and the smaller ones where grain is most needed, have been written to, asking for their immediate coöperation.

"5. All the state institutions, five besides our own, have been asked to help in this matter.

"6. A number of high schools and township schools, etc., have been asked to help.

"7. Between one and two hundred farmers, well distributed over the state have had personal letters.

"Money in small amounts has been promised to county agents, commercial clubs, etc. I met a number of the young men of our college today and talked to them about the situation, and asked for their coöperation in writing to their homes, etc. Those most interested in the work went out, after the meeting, and had a picture taken. I will send you this photograph as soon as it is developed."

1. Locating nesting-places of Quails under brush and broken treetops. 2. Placing grain under brush just occupied by a bunch of Quails. 3. Fifteen Quails were found here on February 13; food was left for them. 4. Some Quails become weak from lack of food, are easily caught, and sit contentedly in one's warm hand. 5. Several Quails near the foot of a tree, and one (at the right) running.]

In Minnesota, the "Save the Quail Association" was immediately formed by the sportsmen of St. Paul and vicinity. Mr. Carlos Avery put the State Game Wardens to work, and the matter was given wide publicity. An immense work was done throughout the state in the way of feeding birds. Mr. Avery has sent in a large number of photographs, showing the men actually at work for the relief of the birds. The method of feeding the Quails, to locate the covies, scrape the snow away, and put out food.

The heavy snow and extreme cold prevailed over a large area of the northern United States, and more work was probably done to feed the birds this winter than ever before under similar conditions. Many of the State Game Commissions have funds for this purpose, and have been very active.

Quails and Pheasants are known to have suffered much in Oregon and Washington. A quaint little incident is reported of pheasants in Washington, sent us by a correspondent in British Columbia. He relates that the Pheasants during the time of deep snow not only came familiarly about barnyards, but were fond of perching on the backs of the hogs in order, apparently, to warm their chilled feet.

There have been some losses in New England, and even from New Jersey reports reached the office of the toll of bird-life that the heavy snow had taken.

=FLORENCE MERRIAM BAILEY=

When George Bird Grinnell coined the term "Audubon Society," and started the Audubon Movement, in 1886, one of the first to respond to the call and to go actively into the work was Miss Florence Merriam, who, with Miss Fanny Hardy--now Mrs. Eckstorm, author of several bird-books--in March, 1886, organized the Smith College Audubon Society. Soon afterward Miss Merriam assumed the duties of a local Audubon secretaryship, in northern New York, and also secured local secretaries in several neighboring towns.

In 1897, when the Audubon Society of the District of Columbia was organized, she was one of its chartered members. For many years, as Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey, she has been an active member of its executive committee, and, among other duties, has had charge of the annual spring bird-class, one of the most important features of that Society. That her interest in the work is deep, and sympathetic to an unusual degree may be shown by a quotation from a letter that she wrote to the California Audubon Society on the occasion of its organization:

"Wherever you go, study the birds and tell your friends of them. Point out to them the chaste beauty of your exquisitely tinted waterfowl; let them see the glowing splendor of your Tanagers, the flashing jewels of your Hummingbirds. Take them to the fields, that they may listen in rapture to the rare voice of your Meadowlark; take them to the deep canyons filled with the flute-like notes of the Canyon Wren; and to the fir forests on the mountainsides, where their souls will be stirred by the uplifted song of the Thrush.

"By knowing the birds personally, you will bring to your Audubon work the enkindling spark of enthusiastic friendship. In all phases of your work, for yourselves, your friends, your birds, and your children, you have my hearty interest and good wishes. For fifteen years I have been waiting for you to take up the cause of the California birds, and for many years I have been working with the children of the West on my heart. Knowing this, you may well believe that I wish your beautiful work an earnest God-speed."

Mrs. Bailey's natural girlhood's interest in wild birds was greatly quickened by dwelling in a home in which scholarship and a love of scientific accuracy were taught daily; and she had the added advantage of living in a region of northern New York well supplied with bird-life. In a recent letter she wrote: "Having been brought up on Coues's 'Key,' and trained by my brother, Dr. C. Hart Merriam, on leaving College in 1886 I began doing careful field-work." Since that day, no woman has studied the wild birds of America so systematically, so thoroughly, and so carefully as she. The amount of field-work she has done is perfectly astonishing, and probably few women have spent so many days in the wilds, or so many nights under canvas, as has Mrs. Florence Merriam Bailey. Her work, partly conducted in company with her brother, Dr. Merriam, and her husband, Mr. Vernon Bailey, has been carried on not only in eastern and southern states and in the Bermudas, but also in Arizona, Oregon, California, North Dakota, Texas, Utah, and New Mexico.

As a teacher of others, she has given bird-talks and conducted field-classes in bird-study in various parts of the country, and for thirty years her name has been before the public as a writer of popular and scientific articles. The titles of no less than seventy communications published in _The Auk_, _Bird-Lore_, _The Condor_, _Forest and Stream_, _The Outlook_, _Popular Science_, _The American Agriculturist_, and elsewhere, have come to my attention. Her first book, "Birds Through An Opera Glass," was published in 1889. This was followed by "My Summer in a Mormon Village," 1895; "A-Birding on a Bronco," 1896; and "Birds of Village and Field," 1898.

Her largest and most valuable contribution to the literature of ornithology is her "Handbook of Birds of the Western United States," first published in 1902. From the day of its appearance, this was hailed as the most practical and useful book on our western birds that had ever been published, and for many years to come it will be regarded as the standard work on the subject. No serious student of bird-life in the western United States would think of being without this valuable book on his study-table.

=NEW MEMBERS AND CONTRIBUTORS=

Enrolled from January 1 to March 1, 1916.

_Life Members._

Agnew, Miss Alice G.
Andrews, J. Sherlock
Arnold, Edward W. C.
Barr, James H.
Black, R. Clifford
Blake, Mrs. Francis
Brackenridge, George W.
Burnham, William
Butler, Mrs. Paul
Butterworth, Mrs. William
Campbell, John B.
Childs, Eversley
Clark, George H.
Clementson, Mrs. Sidney
Colgate, Richard M.
Covell, Dr. H. H.
Dahlstrom, Mrs. C. A.
Dodge, Cleveland H.
Doepke, Mrs. William F.
Eddison, Charles
Glazier, Henry S.
Hamlin, Mrs. Eva S.
Hanna, Mrs. H. M., Jr.
Haskell, J. Amory
Higginson, Mrs. James J.
"Iowa Friend"
Jenkins, Mrs. Joseph W.
Keen, Miss Florence
Keith, Mrs. D. M.
Kingsbury, Miss Alice E.
Langdon, Woodbury G.
Lansing, Mrs. G. Y.
Lawrence, Rosewell B.
Low, Miss Nathalie F.
MacLean, Mrs. Charles F.
Marmon, Mrs. Elizabeth C.
Miller, Mrs. E. C. T.
Mitchell, Miss Mary
Moore, Mrs. William H.
Neave, Miss Jane C.
Newberry, W. F.
Oliver, Mrs. James B.
Osborn, Mrs. William C.
Prentiss, F. F.
Rathborne, Richard C.
Remsen, Miss Elizabeth
Rodewald, F. L.
Sanger, Mrs. C. R.
Severance, John L.
Stetson, Francis L.
Stillman, B. G.
Stillman, Chauncey D.
Thaw, J. C.
Upson, Mrs. Henry S.
Weld, Miss Elizabeth F.
White, Windsor T.
Woolman, Edward

_Sustaining Members._

Adams, Mrs. Maud W.
Aims, Miss Edith M.
Allen, Charles D.
Allen, Mrs. D. P.
Armstrong, Mrs. C. R.
Audubon Society of Illinois.
Audubon Society of New Hampshire.
Barber, Mrs. H.
Barrows, Ira.
Bayne, Howard
Beacom, M. W.
Benton, Andrew A.
Biays, Miss Katherine
Billard, Mrs. J. L.
Bispham, David
Boettger, Mrs. Theodore
Booth, Mrs. Henry M.
Brunswick, Mrs. E.
Burton, Mrs. Robert M.
Carey, Mrs. Frederic F.
Cerf, Mrs. L. A.
Choate, Miss Caroline
Church, F. S.
Clark, F. Ambrose
Clark, George C.
Clements, Mrs. G. H.
Cochran, G. D.
Cohn, Julius M.
Colfelt, Mrs. R. McM.
Colorado Audubon Society
Cory, Daniel W.
de Bary, A.
Delta Duck Club
DeMilt, Miss Aida R.
deRham, H. Casimir
Dinsmore, Mrs. W. B.
Emerson, William
Flint, Mrs. Austin
Ford, Mrs. Bruce
Foshay, Dr. P. Maxwell
Fraser, Miss Ann C.
Fuld, Solomon
Gale, C. C.
Gates, Dr. Milo H.
Gavit, E. P.
Godwin, Mrs. H.
Gouinlock, Miss Mary S.
Haggin, Mrs. Ben Ali
Haines, Charles D.
Hall, A. Neely
Hatch, Miss Cornelia C.
Havemeyer, Henry O.
Hawes, Miss M. M.
Hawkes, Miss Eva
Herz, Mrs. F. W.
Heyn, Miss Emma
Hibbs, Mrs. Russell A.
Hitchcock, Master Frank
Hoening, Mrs. C.
Hooper, Mrs. Newlin
Hopkins, Mrs. George B.
Hotchkiss, Frank A.
Houghton, Mrs. Grace N.
Howland, Dr. John
Hoyt, Miss Rosina S.
Hyde, Mrs. Clarence M.
Imbrie, Mrs. James
Irwin, John V.
Jaretzki, Mrs. Alfred
Jenkins, A. W.
Jennings, Mrs. Oliver G.
Jewett, William K.
Judd, Mrs. M. E.
Judson, Mrs. A. L.
Keck, Miss Margaret W.
Kennedy, David A.
Kennedy, Mrs. N. Van Rensselaer
Kent, Edwin C.
Keyes, Mrs. Edward L., Jr.
Kimball, Mrs. Reuel B.
King, Mrs. Willard V.
Kinne, Miss Helen
Klingenstein, Charles
Lamb, Gilbert D.
Lane, James Warren, Jr.
Lansburgh, Miss Edith Rosalie
Ledoux, Mrs. Albert R.
Lehmaier, Mrs. Louis A.
Lehman, Meyer H.
Lewis, Richard V.
Lieb, Dr. Charles C.
Lilienthal, Dr. Howard
Louis, Charles H.
McHugh, Joseph P.
Maron, Otto
Massey, Miss H. F.
Mather, Charles M.
Mayer, Louis
Merriam, F. L.
Meyn, Mrs. Heinrich
Miller, Mrs. R. T.
Miller, Mrs. Seaman
Mills, Frederic C.
Mills, Miss Jean
Moore, Miss K. T.
Moorhead, Horace R.
Morton, Mrs. Levi P.
Moses, Mrs. E.
Muendel, Miss Christina
Nelson, Charles W.
New Bedford Bird Club
Newell, Mrs. G. T.
Nicoll, Mrs. Fancher
Oregon Audubon Society
Palmer, Nicholas F.
Peck, Dr. Charles H.
Pomeroy, Daniel E.
Poor, Roger M.
Pope, Miss Edith A.
Pratt, Mrs. Frederic B.
Procter, Mrs. Wm. Cooper
Proctor, Thomas R.
Puffer, Miss Isabel
Putney, Miss E. C.
Redmond, Master Henry S.
Reese, Mrs. R. G.
Rehling-Qvistgaard, J. W. V.
Renard, Fred O.
Reynolds, Mrs. G. W.
Riley, Mrs. W. W.
Robbins, Allan Appleton
Rogers, Mrs. Francis
Romenus, Albert
Rumsey, Lawrence Dana
Rupprecht, Frederick K.
Ryle, Miss Julia
Sachs, Dr. Bernard
Savage, James
Sawtelle, Mrs. E. M.
Schanck, George E.
Scofield, Miss Marion
Seaman, William W.
Sharpe, Miss Elizabeth M.
Shaw, Miss Louise
Sherman, Miss Julia Frances
Siegel, William
Simmons, Mrs. Warren H.
Simonson, Mrs. William A.
Simpson, Miss Jean W.
Smillie, James C.
Smith, Mrs. A. G.
Smith, Miss Emeline C.
Smith, Mrs. Rufus B.
Smith, William Wharton
Snook, Mrs. T. E.
Soule, Elizabeth P.
Stafford, Mrs. William F.
Staudt, John
Steers, James R.
Steinway, F. T.
Stephens, Mrs. Nassau S.
Stillman, Mrs. E. G.
Stone, Miss Elizabeth B.
Strauss, Albert
Stubner, C. J.
Stursberg, Julius A.
Swan, William D.
Taylor, Mrs. W. R. K.
Thomson, John F.
Topliff, Miss Anna E.
Townsend, Eugene L.
Tucker, Carill
Tuxbury, Miss L. E.
Varicle, Miss Renée
Vassar Wake Robin Club
Watson, Miss Emily A.
White, Mrs. Stanford
Whitson, Abraham U.
Wiborg, F. B.
Williams, Alexander S.
Williams, Mrs. Sydney M.
Wilson, Mrs. M. Orme
Wing, Frank L.
Winston-Salem Audubon Society
Zabriskie, Mrs. Cornelius

_New Contributors._

Evans, Miss Mildred
French, Daniel C.
Harron, Master Halie I.
Haueisen, William C.
Jeremiah, J.
Kellogg, Miss M. W.
Macdonald, James A.
Mix, Robert J.
Newcomer, Miss Nannie I.
Parker, Forrest H.
Perrin, Marshall L.
Post, Mrs. E. J.
Townsend, Mrs. Charles
Wheeler, Mrs. L. F.

=Contributors to Egret Fund=

Previously acknowledged $1,016 26
Abbott, Mrs. T. J. 5 00
Adams, William C. 1 00
Ames, Mrs. J. B. 5 00
Auchincloss, Mrs. E. S. 5 00
Barclay, Miss Emily 5 00
Barri, Mrs. John A. 5 00
Baxter, Lucy W. 5 00
Beebe, Mrs. William H. II. 3 00
Bernheimer, Mrs. J. S. 10 00
Bignell, Mrs. Effie 1 00
Bird-Lover 5 00
Blackwelder, Eliot 1 00
Bliss, Miss Lucy B. 7 00
Bonham, Miss Elizabeth S. 5 00
Bonham, Mrs. Horace 10 00
Boynton, Mrs. C. H. 1 00
Brent, Mrs. Duncan K. 2 00
Brooks, Mrs. Shepherd 10 00
Brown, D. J. 2 00
Burgess, E. Phillips 3 00
Burt, Miss Edith 2 00
Button, Conyers 25 00
Carse, Miss Harriet 2 00
Case, Mrs. James B. 10 00
Clarke, Mrs. E. A. S. 5 00
Clerk, Mrs. A. G. 1 00
Cleveland, Mrs. Clement 1 00
Collins, Miss Gertrude 5 00
Cristy, Mrs. H. W. 1 00
Curie, Charles 5 00
Cutter, Ralph L. 5 00
Davis, William T. 5 00
Dawes, Miss Elizabeth B. 10 00
DeForest, Mrs. Robert W. 5 00
Delafield, Mrs. John R. 2 00
Dwight, Mrs. M. E. 2 00
Early, Charles H. 2 00
Eastman, George 50 00
Ellis, William D. 10 00
Emmons, 2nd, Mrs. R. W. 10 00
Evans, William B. 4 00
Fergusson, Alexander C. 2 00
Field, E. B. 2 00
Foot, James D. 2 00
Franklin, Mrs. M. L. 10 00
Friedman, Mrs. Max 2 00
Fries, Miss Emilie 1 00
Frothingham, John W. 35 00
Fuguet, Stephen 5 00
Garst, Julius 3 00
Godeffroy, Mrs. E. H. 10 00
Goodwin, Geo. R. 5 00
Greene, Miss Caroline S. 1 00
Haskell, Miss Helen P. 2 00
Hathaway, Harry S. 2 00
Hodgman, Miss Edith M. 5 00
Hopkins, Miss Augusta D. 3 00
Horr, Miss Elizabeth 5 00
Hoyt, Miss G. L. 5 00
Hunter, Mrs. W. H. 2 00
Jackson, P. T., Jr. 6 00
Jennings, Dr. George H. 3 00
Jordan, A. H. B. 20 00
Joslin, Ada L. 2 00
Jube, Albert B. 3 00
Kennedy, Mrs. John S. 5 00
Kerr, Mrs. T. B. 1 00
Lewis, Mrs. August 10 00
Lewis, Mrs. Herman E. 5 00
Mackey, Oscar T. 5 00
Mann, J. R. 1 00
Marrs, Mrs. Kingsmill 5 00
Marsh, Spencer S. 1 00
Mason, G. A. 5 00
Mason, H. L., Jr. 5 00
Meigs, Miss Hester 1 25
Mellns, J. T. 2 00
Merritt, Mrs. James H. 2 00
Mills, Dr. Herbert R. 20 00
Montell, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. 2 50
Moore, Alfred 5 00
Morganthau, Mrs. M. L. 1 00
Mott, Miss Marian 5 00
Murray, J. Irwin, Jr. 1 00
Nice, Mrs. Margaret M. 3 00
Noyes, Raymond 3 00
Oliver, Dr. Henry K. 10 00
Osborne, Arthur A. 1 00
Pagenstecher, Miss Friede 5 00
Parker, Edward L. 25 00
Parker, Mrs. W. R. 3 00
Patton, Mrs. Margaret S. 10 00
Peck, Dr. Elizabeth L. 1 00
Penfold, Edmund 10 00
Petty, E. R. 2 00
Phelps, Mrs. Frances von R. 10 00
Pott, Miss Emma 1 00
Pusey, Mrs. Howard 2 00
Raymond, Charles II. 5 00
Rhoads, S. N. 1 00
Righter, William S. 5 00
Robbins, Miss N. P. H. 3 00
Robbins, Mr. and Mrs. R. E. 20 00
Sampson, Miss Lucy S. 1 00
Saunders, Charles G. 1 00
Schweppe, Mrs. H. M. 1 00
Scofield, Miss Marion. 10 00
Shattuck, Miss Gertrude A. 1 00
Simpkins, Miss M. W. 10 00
Small, Miss A. M. 2 00
Spackman, Miss Emily S. 1 00
Spalter, Mrs. F. B. 1 00
Stanton, Mrs. T. G. 2 00
Stevens, F. E. 2 00
Stimson, William B. 3 00
Thorndike, Mrs. Augustus 1 00
Timmerman, Miss Edith 1 50
Tower, Mrs. Kate D. 1 00
Troescher, A. F. 10 00
Vaillant, Mrs. G. H. 3 00
Von Zedlitz, Mrs. Anna 2 00
Walker, Miss Mary A. 2 00
White, Horace 5 00
Willcox, Prof. M. A. 10 00
Williams, George F. 5 00
Winslow, Miss Maria L. C. 6 00
Woodward, Dr. S. B. 5 00
Wright, Miss Mary A. 2 00
Zimmerman, Dr. M. W. 5 00
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Total $1,701 51

=THE VIRGINIA GAME BILL PASSES=

By a vote of twenty-four to nine, the Senate of the Virginia Legislature has passed the bill of the Farmers' Union and the Audubon Society for the establishment of a Commission of Fisheries and Game. The bill was signed by the Governor on March 13, 1916. Thus ends a fight which the Audubon Society has led in the Virginia Legislature, session after session, for many years.

Mr. M. D. Hart, President of the Virginia Audubon Society, and others who have labored hard for the successful passage of this measure, are to be congratulated. Now, at least, we may hope for some good bird-and-game protection in that state, for the commissioner will have power to employ wardens, and will have funds with which to pay them.

The methods of selecting the local wardens is rather unusual: From a list of ten names, submitted by the boards of supervisors of the counties and the councils of cities, the commissioner will select wardens--one for each county and city in the commonwealth. In communities of less than 20,000 inhabitants these officers will be paid a salary not to exceed $50 a month. In more populous communities their monthly pay will not be in excess of $60. Special wardens may be appointed to serve for not more than $3 a day. The commissioner or any of his wardens may serve original processes as sheriffs and constables. Every hunter who leaves his own premises or those adjoining his will be required to obtain from the commissioner a hunter's license. Residents will be charged $1 for the privilege of hunting in their county, and $3 for a state range. Non-residents may hunt anywhere in Virginia on payment of $10.

The victory in Virginia leaves only two states in the Union that have no game-warden system. These states are Florida and Mississippi, which still vie with each other for the honor of being the Rip Van Winkle state in the matter of bird-protection.

From a drawing by Walter M. Dunk]

=NOTES FROM THE FIELD=

=Birds Beautifying Cemeteries=

Some time ago, the Secretary happened to visit a suburban cemetery, where landscape-gardening and sculptural art had done what they could to make the scene beautiful and comforting, but he was impressed by the absence of singing birds. Alien Sparrows were chattering, and the gurgling of a Grackle was heard in the distance, but none of the sweet voices and pretty forms of the native birds charmed the ear or gladdened the eye of a visitor. This seemed strange, for the varied trees and shrubbery, with sunny spaces among them, quiet and guarded against noisy intrusion, would be exceedingly attractive and favorable to bird-life; and it occurred to him that in no place would an invitation to the birds to make themselves at home in summer be so likely to be accepted; nor could anything be more appropriate than their cheerful presence. They will prove useful, too.

These thoughts induced him to write a brief essay, entitled "Cemeteries as Bird-Sanctuaries," which has been published by the National Association as Circular No. 2, and distributed to many persons likely to be interested. The response has been most encouraging. Associations and individuals all over the country have written for this circular, and are taking measures to furnish cemeteries with shelters, nesting-boxes and feeding-stations for birds under instruction from the Association. The great Forest Lawn Cemetery near Omaha, for example, is putting up 100 nest-boxes as a beginning. The Rosehill Cemetery and others about Chicago are undertaking similar enterprises, and the Cemetery Beautifying Association of San Francisco is planning this addition to its methods of making more attractive the resting-place of the dead. _Blue Bird_ announces that the Lake View Cemetery at Cleveland, Ohio, will erect many feeding-tables and nest-boxes, in its grounds. The matter has been taken up by the Lexington Kentucky Audubon Society. Other instances might be mentioned.

It is greatly to be hoped that many others will follow their example. The movement we think is worth while, for the sake of humanity as well as for the birds.

=The Oregon Audubon Society=

The Oregon Audubon Society has recently established headquarters in the Young Men's Christian Association building, in Portland. The room occupied by the Society has been tastefully decorated with pictures, and contains cabinets of specimens for study. It is planned to give lectures regularly on Saturday evenings.

Mr. William L. Finley, President of the Society, and the Pacific Coast field-agent for the National Association, in company with Mrs. Finley, has this spring been spending several weeks in the East, where he has been constantly engaged in giving lectures illustrated with moving pictures of sea-birds, Sage Grouse, sea-lions, cougars, black bears, antelopes, and other interesting forms of western wild life.

=Work Along Columbia River=

The Federation of Women's Clubs in the State of Washington has been notable among such organizations for that practical interest in bird-life which arises from an appreciation of their usefulness as well as their beauty. It has recently testified to this most substantially by becoming a member of this Association. Last year, and to a less extent in the previous year, the Federation was represented largely at the State Fair by an exhibition that was called the "Bird Court," in which all sorts of ornithological things were displayed to great advantage. The success of these exhibitions was due largely to the wisdom and energy of Mrs. G. R. Pike, of North Yakima, who has been indefatigable in her efforts to spread the study of birds in the schools. She has been traveling and lecturing throughout the state for some time, under the auspices of the State Federation, which has supported this agency generously. The National Association has coöperated in all these matters, and feels that it is abundantly rewarded by results. It has now enabled Mrs. Pike to extend her work, and it anticipates still larger results in the organization of Junior Classes, and in the stimulation of a general interest in the cause throughout the Columbia Valley.

=Feather Importation In Canada=

It may not be generally known to the readers of BIRD-LORE that, immediately following the passage of the Tariff Act in Washington, on October 3, 1913, which prohibited the importation of feathers to this country, the Canadian Parliament, largely through the efforts of Dr. C. Gordon Hewitt, passed a somewhat similar measure. The Canadian law prohibits the importation of:

"Aigrettes, Egret plumes, or so-called Osprey plumes, and the feathers, quills, heads, wings, tails, skins, or parts of skins, of wild birds, either raw or manufactured; but this provision shall not come into effect until January 1, 1915, and shall not apply to the feathers or plumes of Ostriches; the plumage of the English Pheasant and the Indian Peacock; the plumage of wild birds ordinarily used as articles of diet; the plumage of birds imported alive, nor to specimens imported under regulations of the Minister of Customs for any natural-history or other museum, or for educational purposes."

=Allan Brooks a Soldier=

Allan Brooks, the artist, many of whose colored pictures of birds have appeared in BIRD-LORE, is with the English Army "somewhere in France." In the summer of 1915 he wrote the office that he would not be able to do further work for the Association for some time, as he was going to Europe to study. Almost immediately after his arrival in England war broke out. He at once returned to Canada and enlisted in a company at his home in British Columbia. He has been promoted from the rank of Lieutenant to that of Captain. Last December, when Captain Brooks had attained the distinction of the longest continuous trench service of any officer of the Canadian army, he was offered a more restful position behind the lines, but he declined it.

In a letter received by one of his friends a short time ago he stated that he had thus far escaped injury with the exception of deafness in one ear, as a result of a shell-explosion; and that, if he survived the war, he would return to America and hoped to paint better pictures than before.

=Deer-Killing Dogs=

A lady writes from a village in northern New York of the evil of loose dogs in rural communities; and of her care for winter-birds:

"On Sunday morning, January 23, two dogs chased a deer (a young doe), that strayed down from the mountains, and attacked it most viciously until it sank exhausted and wounded on the grounds of the summer home of the church of the Heavenly Rest, of which my husband is gardener and caretaker. He and my son rescued the deer from the dogs, and a neighbor notified the supervisor, who gave permission for its removal to a barn, awaiting the arrival of the game warden. My three children are members of the Audubon Society, and are greatly interested in all wild things. They are heart-broken about the deer, and we try to protect everything wild that comes our way. We have many wild birds around our house, which we coaxed around by putting little houses in the branches of nearby trees, and putting crumbs and scraps in them. We also fixed some branches of hemlock on the windowsill of our dining-room, on which my husband ties pieces of suet, doughnut, bones, and pieces of a pudding I make especially for them, of suet, currants, raisins, bread-crumbs, and scraps of meat; and oh, how they enjoy it!"--MRS. JOHN W. PAYNE.

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=Dodson Bird Houses=

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Mr. Dodson has loved and worked for Native Birds all his life. Dodson Bird Houses (20 styles--for all kinds of birds) used by birds in every state. Martin House (illustrated here), $12; Wren House $5; Bluebird House, $5; Flicker House, $2.50 to $5; Chickadee House, $1.50 and $2.50; Bird Baths, $6 to $17. Prices f.o.b. Kankakee, Illinois.

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=JOSEPH H. DODSON, 712 S. Harrison Ave., Kankakee, Ill.=

_Mr. Dodson is a Director of the Illinois Audubon Society_

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Edmanson Bird Homes

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Learn the Birds

at your first acquaintance with them. You'll never forget them if you jot down a complete description of each one while you watch it. By using the =BIRD NOTE BOOK= you record the essential markings and structure in a few seconds, and can refer to your colored plates after the bird is gone. This method impresses the bird on the memory indelibly. Also aids teachers and class-leaders. Universally approved.

_Single copy 15c. In two-dozen lots, 10c each_

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Food for Nesting Birds

If you want birds to nest near you, you must supply them with food. No food will attract insectivorous birds more effectively than Mealworms. The old birds eat them and also give them to their young. Mealworms should be fed from a shallow tin, glass or china vessel that stands at some shaded place, free of the sun's rays. Place in it the worms you wish to feed that day, and also a little bran. That is their food. A treat for the fishes, etc., in your aquarium, to keep them active and in good health. A good clean bait for fishing with rod and line. A choice food for your young pheasants. (See U. S. Farmers' Bulletin No. 390.)

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