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 Renee
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.
[Illustration (birds on branch)]
[Illustration: SPRING ARRIVALS LOOKING FOR HOMES
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 cooeperated 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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[Illustration (bird house on pole)]
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The Educational Leaflets OF THE National Association of
Audubon Societies
The best means of learning the birds of your neighborhood, and of
teaching your children.
Each leaflet describes the habits and utility of one bird, and contains
a detached colored plate and an outline sketch of its subject.
The _Colored Plates_ are faithful portraits of the birds, yet treated
artistically, as is shown by the examples in the border. No better
pictures of their kind exist. (Plates not sold separately.)
The Outlines are unshaded copies of the plates, intended to be
colored--the best method of fixing facts in a young mind.
These Leaflets, 85 in number, are sold singly at 2 cents each, or in a
bound volume (Nos. 1 to 59) at $1.75. A list will be sent on request to
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National Association of Audubon Societies 1974 Broadway, New York City