*j:)(wc';^- r;! ^E'" ' ■is,i .'I.- ' M' ^^Kr mpi±t2:' K.;....--;:- ■»:-- ■\immn J HHBff"" "m 'S ^^HC,: ■ ^^^^^H^' ^^HF'' FORTHE PEOPLE FOR EDVCATION FOR SCIENCE LIBRARY OF , THE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Volume I. FEBRUARY, 1917 Number 1. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (AppHcation for entry as second-class matter at the post-ofiBce at Boston pending.) BULLETIN ^ Q ,■;?:!■ 0 MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY • I PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. This issue contains a Report of the Activities of the Society since 1914. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legisla- tion and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in cJl Sustaining and Life Membership fees. .o - S\ao4-fel^.q. Membership The present report has been sent not only to the Life, Sus- taining and Associate Members, but also to many non-mem- bers who, it is hoped, will join the Society. If you are already a member, will you not try to obtain another name to put on the slip? If you are not yet a member, will you not join at once ? This Society has far too few members and contributors ; we need $50,000 at least in order to increase our working fund and activities. Will you help expand our usefulness? You are invited to join the Society. It is understood that persons joining the Society are in sym- pathy with its principles and agree not to wear the feathers of wild birds. The plumes of the ostrich and the feathers of domesticated birds are allowable. The classes of membership are : Life Members: paying not less than twenty-five dollars at one time. Sustaining Members: paying one dollar annually. Associate Members: paying twenty-five cents annually. Junior Members: under sixteen years, paying ten cents. Local Secretaries may join the Society on the twenty-five cent membership fee, and have the advantages of Sustaining Members. Further information relating to the Society will be given on application to the Secretary, to whom also requests should be made for the various pamphlets and circulars prepared for free distribution, for the use of the free lectures and libraries, and also for the purchase of the Audubon calendars, charts, and bird plates published by the Society. All donations and sub- scription fees for the Society should be sent to the Secretary- Treasurer, WiNTHROP Packard, 66 Newbury Street, Boston, Mass. Massachusetts Audubon Society 66 Newbury Street, Boston President EDWARD HOWE FORBUSH Vice- Miss Bertha M. Boody Mrs. J. L. Bremer Mrs. John L. Gardner Mrs. Augustus Hemenway Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell Mrs. Endicott Peabody Miss Ellen F. Pendleton Mrs. John C. Phillips Mrs. Dudley L. Pickman Mrs. J. J. Storrow Mrs. John E. Thayer Miss Mary E. Woolley Presidents Prof. Charles S. Sargent Charles F. Batchelder Sylvester Baxter William Sturgis Bigelow, m. d. William Brewster W. Cameron Forbes Ralph Ho??j^mann Rt. Rev. William Lawrence, d. d. A. Lawrence Lowell James Arnold Lowell George H. Mifflin Prof. Edward S. Morse Hon. Herbert Parker Secretary-Treasurer WINTHROP PACKARD Directors William P. Wharton, Chairman Mrs. Frank Bolles Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot Mrs. Roger W. Cutler Mrs. John W. Elliot Miss Minna B. Hall Mrs. Augustus Hemenway Miss Maria Purdon Miss Harriet E. Richards Dr. Charles Mrs. Reginald C. Robbins Francis H. Allen Arthur C. Bent George W. Field, Ph. D. Frederic H. Kennard Edward L. Parker Dr. John C. Phillips Reginald C. Robbins W. Townsend COMMITTEES Publication Mrs. Cabot Mes. Robbins Mrs. Bolles Miss Hall Mr. Allen Charts Mr. Allen Mrs. Hemenway Mr. Robbins Traveling Lectures Mr. Allen Miss Richaeds Me. Robbins Calendar Mrs. Elliot Mrs. Bolles Mr. Allen Protection Dr. Field Dr. Townsend Mr. Forbush Mr. Packard Traveling Libraries Miss Hall Mrs. Bolles Me. Allen Lectures Mr. Forbush Miss Richaeds Mr. Packard Mrs. Bolles Circulars Me. Allen LOCAL SECRETARIES ADAMS „ , ^ Mrs. Thomas Carnc, Forest Park Ave. ALLSTON _ ,,. W. J. Willson, 9 Park Vale, Brooklme AMHERST Mrs. Harold Ward, "The Lilacs" ATHOL CENTRE Mrs. A. S. Albee ATTLEBORO Mrs. Mary T. Murdoch, 30 Union St. BARRE Miss Carrie Read, Public Library BEDFORD Mrs. George R. Blinn BERLIN Mrs. Ira G. Dudley, Lyman School for Boys BELMONT Samuel D. Robbins, Chairman Miss Jean Margaret Dodd, 38 Quincy St., Cambridge Miss Eleanor Dodge, Clark St. George P. Armstrong, Orchard St. C. B. Van Wyck, 31 Willow St. Mrs. Samuel Williston, Belmont St. Frank A. Scott BEVERLY Frank A. Brown, 7 Water St. BLANDFORD Flora B. Hull BOSTON Mrs. M. Louise Taylor, 11 Haviland St. Phillip D. Orcutt, 333 Commonwealth Ave. BRIDGEWATER Harold W. Copeland, 122 Park Ave. BRIMFIELD Miss M. A. Tarbell BROCKTON Helen K. West, 85 W. Elm St. BROOKLINE Miss Blanche Kendall, Dudley St. CANTON Miss Amie M. Summer CHELMSFORD Miss Sarah L. Putnam, Box 23 CONCORD Miss Mary S. Eaton, Monument Sq. DALTON H. L. Allen, Supt. of Schools DANVERS W. G. Fanning, D.D.S., Bank Bldg. DEDHAM Mrs. H. T. Boyd, 17 March St. Dr. H. L. Babcock, Woodleigh Road DENNIS Jorqueson, Katherine T. DORCHESTER Mrs. Abbie F. T. Codman, 337 Neponset Ave. DUNSTABLE Lizzie A. Swallow EAST BREWSTER Mrs. S. K. Parks EASTHAMPTON Mrs. Irving E. Bruce P. S. McCarthy EAST LONGMEADOW Mrs. J. M. Burt FITCHBURG Mary L. Garfield, 81 Grove St. GARDNER . ^ Mrs. James A. Stiles, Highland St. GREAT BARRINGTON Miss Frances S. Hopkins, 17 Brainard Ave. GREENFIELD Miss Mabel Comstock GROTON Miss Eliz. S. Hill, W. Groton HAVERHILL Mrs. J. L. Sanborn, 14 Mt. Vernon St. Sidney M. Chase, 4 Mt. Vernon St. HOLBROOK Mrs. Frank L. Hayden, Linfield St. HOLYOKE Fred S. Webber, 27 Sycamore St. Mrs. E. C. Bliss, The Phoenix HOOSAC TUNNEL Mrs. Ruth D. Lockhart HUDSON Miss Sue M. Hill, 45 River St. Mr. A. W. Morse IPSWICH Miss Sarah E. Lakeman, Box 99 Mrs. Walter Hayward, Vine Hill LANESBORO Miss E. J. Tillotson LEE Miss Henrietta Y. Bosworth W. W. Sasgood, Deputy Fish & Game Comr. LEICESTER Mrs. Ida Lippell Warren LENOX Miss Heloise Meyer, "Overlee" LOWELL Miss N. P. H. Robbins, 412 E. Merrimac St. LYNN Miss Flora H. Breed, 69 Newhall St. MALDEN Mrs. Cora E. Pease, Murray Hill Rd. MATTAPAN Mrs. Elizabeth H. Cox, 612 Norfolk St. MEDFORD Miss Lilian Cleveland, Woods Edge Rd., West Medford MEDFIELD Rev. Albert E. Hylan METHUEN Mrs. Jessie M. Smith MILLVILLE Miss J. Ardelle Mann, Box 170 Geo. Aldrich, Assistant MIDDLEFIELD Eva L. Peck MILTON Miss Ellen Vose, Robbins St., Mattapaa NAHANT Mrs. Fred WUson NANTUCKET Miss Anna G. Swain NORTH ADAMS Harriet A. Hathaway, 53 Chase Ave. Mr. I. F. Hall, Box 554 NORTHAMPTON Miss Arabel F. Forbes, 32 Bedford Terrace. Miss Sarah E. Martin, Treasurer, 12 Prospect St. N. DIGHTON Miss Caroline C. Grace NORTHFIELD Mrs. N. P. Wood Massachusetts Audubon Society NORTH GRAFTON Miss Margaret Brigham, Brigham Hill Farm N. MIDDLEBORO Clara W, Eaton NORTH WILMINGTON Geneva M. Kimball OAK BLUFFS Mae C. Gorham, Box 104 ONSET Charles A. Robbins ORANGE George C. Fowler, 245 South Main St. OXFORD Miss Georgie M. Wheelock PEPPERELL Mrs. Clara W. Reed PLYMOUTH Dr. J. Holbrook Shaw, 43 Court St. QUINCY Mrs. George W. Plaffman, 65 Goffe St. ROXBURY ^ ,. , Miss Frances Zerngiebel, Dor. High School ROYALSTON Miss Cora Hockwell SANDWICH Mrs. A. W. Higgins SHARON Mrs. Frank B. Goode, Box 455 SHEFFIELD A. F. Howes, Supt. of Schools SHIRLEY Mrs. Thomas L. Hazen SOMERSET Elisha Slade SPRINGFIELD Local Committee Miss Grace Peters Johnson, Museum Natural History Miss Emily B. Adams, 167 Maple St. Miss Fannie A. Stebbins, 480 Union St. Mr. Robert C. Morris, 72 Temple St. STONEHAM Miss Cora E. Dike, 60 Franklin St. TAUNTON Miss Flora L. Mason, 99 West Brittania St. TYNGSBORO Mrs. F. D. Lambert VINEYARD HAVEN Miss Mabel Tilton Mrs. F. P. Luce WAREHAM Alexina P. Burgess, Librarian, Public Library WATERTOWN Mrs. G. E. Soule, 7 Fayette St. Miss Pauline Woodward, 30 Mt. Auburn St. WAVERLEY Local Committee Frank Seymour, Chairman, 23 Agassiz Ave. Fred Moore, Secretary, 59 Chandler St. Edith Seymour, Treasurer, 23 Agassiz Ave. Gladys McNeil, 25 Cutter St. William Claus WAYLAND Miss Mary Eleanor Lovell WELLESLEY Mrs. J. J. E. Rothery WELLESLEY COLLEGE Miss Marion E. Hubbard WELLESLEY HILLS Miss Annie E. Spencer, 240 Linden St. WEST BECKET Mrs. S. W. Powell WESTFIELD Frederick Scott, Prospect Hill School WEST HANOVER Mrs. Amelia H. Bonney WEST NEWTON Miss Agnes B. Hastings, Temple St. WESTON Mrs. Albert H. Hewes WEST TISBURY Mrs. Johnson Whiting WESTWOOD Mrs. Catherine M. E. White, Nabatan St. WEYMOUTH HEIGHTS Miss M. M. Hunt, 9 Middle St. WHITMAN Mrs. Augusta M. Kennedy WINCHENDON Mrs. F. B. Spalter, Lock Box 105 WINCHESTER Miss Elizabeth Irving Ordway, 20 Myrtle St. WOBURN Miss Grace M. Bryant, 49 Mt. Pleasant St. WOLLASTON Mrs. J. F. Stevens, 14 Prospect Ave. WORCESTER Mrs. H. M. Witter, 2 Montague St. Herbert C. Sanborn, 22 Front St. WRENTHAM Miss Amelia M. Brastow REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS The Directors of the Massachusetts Audubon Society submit the following report of the activities of the Society during the past two years. The Society has listed now 410 Life Members, 2771 Sustaining Members, 329 Associates and 26,991 Juniors — a total membership of 30,501. Incorporation. In pursuance of long-considered plans the Society was incorporated under the laws of Massachusetts in January, 1915, the legal formalities being attended to by Mr. James A. Lowell, Counsel for the Society. The officers' aims and methods of the Society remain practically the same, the incorporation serving to strengthen it in many ways. Activities and The ever broadening influence and activities of the Influence. Society are felt far beyond the borders of the common- wealth. Requests for literature, information, advice or assistance often come to us from remote States — Texas, California, Florida, for instance, and recently a request from Russia. Such in- formation or assistance is invariably given and through it the name and reputation of the Society carries far. The Audubon charts and calendars find an ever-widening market, the former having been placed in schools or libraries in every State in the Union and in Canada. Office and During the past two years the Society has occupied a Exhibit. large basement room in the building of the Boston So- ciety of Natural History with entrance at 66 Newbury Street where it exhibits bird books and charts and literature con- cerning birds and bird protection and has also a growing collection of specimens of bird-houses, feeders, baths and other like material for the protection and attraction of our wild birds. This exhibition is open to the public at all times as well as to the members of the Society and advice and encouragement are freely given. The office is in fact headquarters for all things pertaining to the study and protection of our wild birds and is so regarded by the public. Travelling This influence is extended throughout the State in many Lectures. various ways. For instance we have four travelling lec- turers, available to any teacher or bird student who wishes to use them. Two have lantern-slide illustrations, one has col- ored plates of birds, and the fourth is a set of slides alone, which the lecturer adapts to his own uses. These lectures are supplied without cost other than the charge for carriage and are in constant use throughout the State, occasionally being asked for beyond the border. 8 Massachusetts Audubon Society Travelling Similar work is done by the four libraries of carefuUj Libraries. selected bird books which are furnished to the Woman's Education Association for free circulation in the schools and libraries of Massachusetts. These are in continuous use and are a great help to those interested in bird life in the smaller communities where library opportunities are not so great as in the larger centres. Application for their use should be made to Mrs. Alice G. Chandler, Lancaster, Mass. Bird The Society's three bird charts, figuring in all sixty-seven Charts, common birds in full size and colors, are rapidly becoming familiar to schools, libraries and households throughout the country. Early in 1916 the Society took over the publication of these charts and a vigorous campaign for their introduction has since been carried on. Since January, 1916, 2071 have been sold and have received the appreciation of the public. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use and they have received the highest commendation from such judges as John Burroughs, Prof. Clifton F. Hodge, and P. P. Claxton, United States Commissioner of Education. They should be hung in every school-room and public library. Calendar. The Society publishes annually a calendar giving six exquisite plates of birds in color, together with brief descriptions. These calendars are much sought for their artistic beauty and for the unique collection of colored plates of birds thus obtained from year to year. They are sold at the office, through the mail, and at local book and stationery stores. Leaflets. The Society has always on hand leaflets on all phases of bird study and bird protection, many of them for free distribution, others at a nominal price. These leaflets comprise not only those published by the Society but those of the National Asso- ciation of Audubon Societies and those pertaining to birds issued by the M. S. P. C. A., the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture and the Agricultural Department at Washington, D. C. Bird Books. The best bird books are on exhibition at the office and the Society is glad to recommend them to its members or anyone interested or have them use these books for reference work. Any of the books may be purchased through the ofiice. Bird-houses, It exhibits, is agent for and often has a small stock on etc. hand of the bird-houses, feederies, baths and bird food of the approved dealers in these wares. In fact, it aims not only to advise in regard to the use of these, but to be ready to supply them. Owners of country estates who wish to attract and Report of the Directors 9 protect the birds on them are invited to consult the office as to the best means of doing this. Cloth In consultation with the Massachusetts Commissioners of Posters. Fisheries and Game, a cloth poster for posting land against hunting and trespassing has been devised and adopted aa embodying the most effectively legal form of warning and the Society supplies these free to the number of a dozen, enough to post properly a small place. They are supplied in larger quantities at cost. Dur- ing the past two years some five thousand of these have been dis- tributed. The same form, printed in Italian, is also supplied in the same way and a considerable number of these have been used. They are mailed to any address on application. Junior With the encouragement and assistance of the National Asso- Classes. ciation of Audubon Societies, the Massachusetts Society four years ago began the work of instituting junior classes in bird study and bird protection throughout the State. Through lists kindly supplied by Superintendents, every teacher in the State has been yearly invited to form such classes and those forming them have been assisted in every possible way in carrying on the work. The children have thus received lessons in literature, Audubon buttons and certificate of membership in the Society, and thus more than 27,000 have been started in the work of bird protection and are growing up to be at maturity even more valuable assistants In the cause. During all this time the leaflets and other material have been supplied free by the National Association of Audubon Societies and the small fees paid by the children have gone Into the treasury of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, paying for postage and clerical work and leaving a modest margin to help on the other work of the Society. This junior class work Is to go on from the office at 66 Newbury Street, but is now taken over entirely by the National Association of Audubon So- cieties. The Massachusetts Society takes pleasure in thus publicly acknowledging the assistance which the National Association has in this, as In so many other ways, cheerfully given. State One of the duties of this Society Is to watch legislation, Legislation, see that no bills pass that are Inimical to birds and help on so far as it legitimately may all such measures as pro- pose a larger protection. In this it Is pleasing to note that it yearly finds individuals and organizations, within the legislature and without, more favorable to its cause. This Is gratlfyingly true of the better sportsmen, who realize that our cause Is their own and work with us, 10 Massachusetts Audubon Society as we with them. In state legislation one very important measure successfully advocated was what is known as the Alien Gun Law, for- bidding unnaturalized aliens to have guns iji their possession. This law, proposed by the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Associ- ation, was warmly approved by the Audubon Society, which worked effectively with the sportsmen for its passage. The law has had good effect in stopping much illegal hunting, saving song-birds from de- struction and making the woods and fields safer to us all. Stopped Spring In Federal legislation the Society has during the Shooting in past year or so taken a very active part. In the Southwest. spring of 1916, the Biological Survey at Washing- ton proposed, as a part of the new regulations of the law protecting migratory birds, that a month's spring shooting be given the gunners of the Southwest, between the dates of February 9th and March 10th. An open season in mating-time is, of course, a crime against nature, against real sport and is most deadly to the true spirit of conservation. Our Society felt, moreover, more than an altruistic interest in this matter, as spring shooting by promulga- tion of the Washington authorities for Missouri would mean a demand from similar sources for spring shooting in Massachusetts. The So- ciety, therefore, appropriated $1000 to send a competent biologist to Missouri, to study actual conditions there among birds and men, and to rouse public sentiment in the region against the consummation of this plan. Dr. Hornaday, trustee of the Wild Life Conservation Fund in New York, joined with us in this work, appropriating a similar amount. Meanwhile, a circular letter of information and invitation to protest was sent to every agricultural college and agricultural paper in the country. The result was excellent. We were able to lay before the Biological Survey convincing proof that the season is a mating- time with the wild fowl of the region and were instrumental in seeing that thousands of protests against the proposed open season went to the Survey and to Members of Congress at Washington. As a direct result of this work the obnoxious, regulation was removed and the mating birds of this great wild-fowl region were saved. Treaty with During the summer session of Congress it was dis- Canada Passed, covered that there was an opportunity to push the proposed Treaty with Canada in behalf of the migra- tory birds, making the Federal law uniform for all North America, north of Mexico. Our representative was immediately sent to Wash- ington and then on to the Southwest, in the interest of the Treaty, which, in spite of adverse conditions, largely through the abilities of Report of the Directors 11 Senator McLean of Connecticut, passed the Senate and has since re- ceived the signature of King George and become the law of the land. It is gratifying to note that in both these campaigns the better sports- men and sportsmen's associations throughout the country assisted. Their success was due to the large sentiment for rational bird pro- tection everywhere prevalent and needing only to be definitely appealed to and directed. This appeal the Massachusetts Audubon Society made and it is proud of the result. Whatever the decision of the Supreme Court as to the constitutionality of the Federal Migratory Bird Law, the treaty makes its effects secure. The Enabling An important work now lies before us in the need of Act. passing the "Enabling Act," which will provide funds to put the Treaty into effect and will also carry many details of the utmost importance to the future of bird protection. Fore- seeing this, the Society sent out last summer an appeal for a special fund for pressing the enabling act, and the response has been prompt and generous. Work upon it is now under way. It is very fortunate for the friends of bird protection that Senator McLean of Connecticut was re-elected last November. Senator McLean has a national repu- tation, not only as a friend of the birds and the author of measures for their protection, but for his ability to push such measures to a triumphant conclusion. In the recent election, when there seemed to be doubt of the Senator's success, the Society took a hand in rallying all the Connecticut bird men for him. He was elected by 8000 majority. Feeding the During the last two years, joining with the National Winter Birds. Association of Audubon Societies, the Massachusetts Society has conducted a campaign for the winter feeding of the wild birds of New England. To this end the request, together with simple directions for feeding them, has been sent to every Audubon Society member. Women's Club, D. A, R. Chapter, and news- paper, and a poster to every post office in the section. The response has been immediate and generous. Individuals and associations have vied with one another throughout the winter months and the good done both to birds and to people has been great. Birds at Birds are sometimes destroyed in great numbers at light- Lighthouses. houses during migration. The very bright light attracts them on dark and stormy nights and they dash against it or die of exhaustion, fluttering in the glare. To prevent this, at several lighthouses abroad, perches have been placed on the lights, just out of the glare, where the birds may alight and be saved. Planning 12 Massachusetts Audubon Society to provide such perches on our Massachusetts lights, if needed, the Society began in the spring of 1916 an investigation of the conditions at our Massachusetts lighthouses, getting reports from the light- keepers. At most of our lights, it has been shown there is little or no loss of bird life. At the few where some loss is reported the conditions are under observation, but it seems probable that, in our State at least, no remedial measures will be found necessary. Annual As a part of its educational work the Society gives annually Lecture a course of bird lectures by the foremost specialists of the Course, country. In the spring of 1915, Mr. William L. Finley of Oregon came to Huntington Hall and gave two lectures with moving pictures. As the rules of Huntington Hall do not permit sell- ing tickets at the door, the tickets for the lectures were offered by mail with gratifying results, the hall, which seats nearly 1000, being filled to capacit}"^ for both lectures. In November of the same year, Mr. Herbert K. Job, who had been studying the birds on the great Southern reservations in company with Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt, came to Ford Hall and showed moving pictures of this expedition. The date fell on the day of the Harvard-Yale game at Cambridge, but in spite of that about a thou- sand people attended. In the spring of 1916 the Society presented five bird lectures at Tremont Temple, two by Mr. William L. Finley, one each by Mr. How- ard Cleaves, Prof. Wells W. Cooke, and Mr. Louis Agassiz Fuertes. The increasing interest in the subject is shown by the attendance, which averaged about 1500 persons for each lecture, the great auditoriiun at the Temple being needed to seat the throngs. In all these courses, the Lecture Committee had the satisfaction of presenting the best men in the country to record audiences, thus increasing the work for good and also adding substantial sums to the treasury of the Society. It is planned to give four lectures of equal value on four Saturdays in March, 1917. Free Furthering the same educational ideas, the Secretary has Lectures, given during the past two years lectures before schools, colleges, clubs, granges and other organizations to the num- ber of 120 to audiences totalling some 30,000 persons. Many of these lectures have been illustrated by stereopticon. There has been no charge for these lectures and they have been much in request. The Directors feel that this work has been very effective in rousing the senti- ment for bird protection now so evident throughout the State. During the month of March, 1916, the Society shared with the Report of the Directors 13 National Association of Audubon Societies in engaging the services of Mr. Henry Oldys of Washington, D. C. Mr. Oldys is well known as a lecturer on birds, and during the month he covered the State, paying particular attention to schools in the interest of the Junior Class work. He was everywhere well received and addressed in all 90 audiences, totalling 24,350 persons, thus materially helping the cause from many different angles. Annual Mass An Annual Mass Meeting to which all friends of the Meetings. Society are invited has long been a feature of the work. The 1915 meeting was held in Huntington Hall on the afternoon of April 17th, the lecturers being Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, and Mr. Charles C. Gorst, bird-imitator. Over two thousand persons attended this meeting, the hall, which seats nearly a thousand, being twice filled, one half of the audience waiting its turn without while the other half were seated, the lecturer repeating his address. The numbers were an eloquent tribute to the popularity of both the lecturers and the cause. The 1916 meeting was held in Tremont Temple, the speakers being Mr. Charles C. Gorst, the bird-imitator, and Mr. Herbert K. Job, The great auditorium at the Temple was well filled and the meeting was a great success. These meetings are of much value to the Society in bringing its work personally before thousands and in giving its members and their friends opportunity to hear the foremost bird lec- turers of the day. Bird During the spring of 1916, Dr. George W. Field, now a Sanctuary, member of the Biological Survey at Washington, offered the Society the use of his large estate at Moose Hill, Sharon, as a Bird Sanctuary, it being hoped that it might be developed as a model. Owing to the absence of Dr. Field, little has been done on this plan as yet, but plans are under consideration and it is hoped may be acted upon, as the place offers one of the finest opportunities to be had, one of the highest hills in the eastern part of the State — a landmark in the direct path of migration, diversified, variously wooded, with marsh and stream as well as upland. Local Efficient helpers in the cause are the Local Secretaries, Secretaries, of which the Society aims to have one in every town. The names of those engaged in this work at present are given on another page and the Directors would be glad to learn of others in any locality who might be induced to serve. They wish to express here and now their gratitude to all who thus give freely of their time and strength in this good cause. 14 Massachusetts Audubon Society The activities of the local secretaries have varied according to time, place and opportunity. Many have given bird lectures, led bird walks, organized local bird clubs, encouraged and assisted local organ- izations and individuals to establish sanctuaries, feed the birds, put up birdhouses, and form junior Audubon Societies, and in general have made themselves the centre of activities of the neighborhood in bird study and bird protection. Game A gratifying evidence of the appreciation of our work Wardens by State authorities was a recent invitation on the part Interested, of the Commissioners on Fisheries and Game to supply literature and suggestions to the game wardens and State employees at the game farms and fish hatcheries of the State as to the building and use of birdhouses. For some time many of the war- dens have been interested and active in instructing the school-chil- dren and others of their districts in bird protection methods, realizing the value of an aroused public sentiment in preventing infractions of the game laws. The Audubon Society is glad to be able to assist and help extend these activities and feels that the interest thus shown is a valuable asset in its work. Advantages of Membership Bird Preservation Personal participation in the great work of saving our valuable and beautiful wild birds. Information Assistance in identification, advice from competent specialists on the best methods of protecting and in- creasing the birds on one's home grounds ; how and where to place bird houses, bird baths, feeding stations, and how to guard and supply them ; how to rear wild birds. Reading Room and Exhibition Hall Use at any time of the reading room and exhibition hall at the office, 66 Newbury Street, where bird books, bird pictures, charts, leaflets and all modern appliances for bird protection are displayed. Bird Lectures The Society gives annually a course of lectures illustrated by stereopticon and moving pictures by the foremost bird specialists of the country. Members have the first opportunity to purchase these tickets at moderate prices. Annual Meeting Members receive FREE TICKETS for themselves and guests, admitting to the great Annual Meeting with its illustrated lectures and entertaining and informative features. Monthly Bulletin All Sustaining and Life Members receive without further expense the monthly bulletin, containing informa- tion regarding the doings of the Society and news of importance in the world of bird study and bird protection. THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY is known and valued throughout the country for its good work. It is the center of information and inspiration whence has come during the past twenty years much of the great advance in laws, public opinion and personal practice in regard to the preservation and study of our wild birds. 16 Massachusetts A uduh o n Society REPORT OF THE TREASURER Receipts — August 11, 1913, to August 31, 1914 General Fund Reserve Fund Fees from Life Members (to January, 1914) . . $ 700.00 *Fees from Life Members 2,875.00 Fees from Associate Members 10.50 Fees from Sustaining Members 640.00 Dues 822.50 Donations 2,097.25 Fees from Juniors 673.11 Sale of Publications 151.89 Sale of Calendars 499.65 Sale of Charts 62.38 Sale of Buttons 3.60 Returns on expressage 3.03 Refund on Bir^ Day Expenses 5.00 Part office expense National Association of Audubon Societies 347.50 Life membership for N. A. A. S. (Mrs. H. Beech) 100.00 Life membership for N. A. A. S. (Miss Mary Woodman) 100.00 N. A. A. S. for stamped envelopes 20.00 Royalty on charts — Milton Bradley Company. 534.75 Interest 52.33 3.29 $6,823.49 $2,878.29 Balance August 11, 1913 2,468.39 $9,291.88 $2,878.29 Expenditures 1913-1914 8,172.34 Balance September 1, 1914 $1,119.54 $2,878.29 * Fees from Life Members from January, 1914, on deposit in Re- serve Fund which was established then. Report of the Treasurer 17 Expenditures — August 11, 1913, to August 31, 1914 Geaeral Fimtl Resenre Fud Postage $ 950.57 Printing and Stationery 1,137.81 Salaries 2,337.06 Expressage 116.14 Office Supplies 98.07 Publications 98.61 Telephone 41.71 Charts Purchased 56.42 New Edition of Chart No. 2 497.74 Joseph L3Tidon Smith for services 25.00 Treasurer's Bond for 1913 12.50 Auditing Books 10.50 Travelling Expenses 81.82 Messenger Service 14.05 Plank Walk outside office 57.80 Life membership — N. A. A. S. (Mrs. H. Beech) 100.00 Life membership — N. A. A. S. (Miss Mary Woodman) 100.00 Repayment of loan for publication of chart No. 3 1,800.00 National Association of Audubon Societies — Egret Fund 1.00 Henry Oldys — Lecture at Annual Meeting. . . . 40.00 Calendars 87.06 Painting Hallway 30.00 Refund on Secretary-Treasurer's Salary 260.00 Refund on Belmont Audubon Society 7.25 Bird Day Expenses 25.00 Refund to N. A. A. S. (Miss Mary Brown) 10.00 Treasurer's Bond for 1914 12.50 Junior Buttons 87.50 Hall for Annual Meeting 11.10 Birdhouses 1.50 Janitor Service 50.00 Sundries 11 .73 Bank Charges 1.90 Total Expenditures $8,172.34 18 Massachusetts Audubon Society Receipts — September 1, 1914, to May 6, 1915 , Generai Fund Reserve Fmd Life Members $475.00 Sustaining Members $213.00 Dues 877.59 Other members 404.83 Donations 373.00 Sale of Charts 1,467.03 Sale of Calendars 711.02 Sale of Publications 406.61 Sale of Birdhouses 234.55 Sale of Buttons .12 Lecture tickets sold 958.50 Express Rebate .21 Telephone Refund 1.30 Overcharge on check 1.00 Cash for check 4.00 Milton Bradley — Royalty on charts 934.50 Copying list of names 2.00 Food Fair Sales 37.55 N. A. A. S. Food Fair Sales 19.80 Share of N. A. A. S. toward Food Fair Expenses 25.00 Refund on check 1.00 Part office expenses N. A. A. S 248.18 Contribution for N. A. A. S. (Dr. Flagg) 4.00 Contribution for N, A. A. S. (Fitchburg Out- door Club) 5.00 Contribution for N. A. A. S 15.00 Contribution for N. A. A. S 5.00 Interest 30.70 69.06 $6,980.49 $544.06 Balance September 1, 1914 1,119.54 2,878.29 $8,100.03 $3,422.35 Expenditures Sept. 1, 1914-May 6, 1915. . 4,957.99 Balance May 7, 1915 $3,142.04 $3,422.35 Report of the Treasurer 19 Expenditures — September 1, 1914, to May 6, 1915 General Fond Reserve Fund Salaries $1,697.55 Rent 33.35 Printing and Stationery . 505,55 Postage 1,160.28 Transportation 77.42 Telephone 51.03 Office Supplies 105.51 Publications 332.08 Charts 100.20 Birdhouses 226.54 Booth at Food Fair 61.00 William L. Finley— Two Lectures 119.00 Moving Picture Machine for Lectures 74.00 Rent of Hall for Lectures 17.14 Extra Service at Food Fair 20.00 Check Return 1,00 N. A. Sales at Food Fair 19,80 Incorporation Fee 5.00 Refund to N. A. A. S 5.00 Refund to N. A. A. S 1 0.00 Refund to N, A. A. S 5.00 Refund to N. A. A. S. (Dr. Flagg) 4.00 Refund to N. A. A. S. (Fitchburg Outdoor Club) 5.00 Refund to Belmont Audubon Society .50 Check for Cash 4.00 Refund on Calendar 1.50 Refund on Overcharge Check 1,00 Auditing Books 16.25 T. Gilbert Pearson — Public Meeting 26.00 Chart Booklets 50.00 Addressograph 57.60 Junior Buttons 55.66 Folding 11,85 Messenger Service 13,65 Travelling Expenses 49,22 Janitor Service 22,00 Sundries 10,81 Bank Charges 3,50 Total Expenditures $4,957.99 20 Massachusetts Audubon Society Receipts — May 7, 1915, to December 31, 1915 GenerallFoBd Reserve Fund Fees from Life Members $125.00 Fees from Sustaining Members $136.00 Fees from other members 231.68 Dues 572.25 Donations 146.75 Lectures 458.50 Sale of Charts 1,216.98 Sale of Publications 488.32 Sale of Calendars 562.91 Sale of Birdhouses 318.29 Part office expenses from N. A. A. S 296.02 Sundries 25.77 Interest 23.56 64.54 $4,477.03 $189.54 Balance May 7, 1915 3,142.04 3,422.35 $7,619.07 $3,611.89 Expenditures May 7-Dec. 31, 1915 5,267.41 Balance January 1, 1916 $2,351.66 $3,611.89 Report of the Treasurer 21 Expenditures — May 7, 1915, to December 31, 1915 Generail Fund Reserve Fund Salaries $1,696.25 Rent 87.51 Printing 4.73.85 Postage and Stamped Envelopes 723.11 Telephone 43.05 Expressage 101.58 Office Supplies 114.65 Cabinet, and addresses for Addressograph . . . . 89.87 Lectures 151.50 Calendars bought back to re-sell 26.95 Charts bought 796.36 Publications 453.48 Bird Houses 150.81 Bird Day Expenses 60.97 Life Membership in National Association 100.00 Janitor Services 37.00 Travelling Expenses 35.84 Bird Whistler for Annual Meeting 20.00 Folding Circulars 18.29 Treasurer's Bond 12.50 Office Signs 11.00 Indexes 4.00 Messenger Service 7.55 Sundries 47.11 Bank Charges 4.10 Total Expenditures $5,267.41 22 Massachusetts Audubon Society Beceipts — January 1, 1916, to December 31, 1916 General Fond Reserve Fnd Fees from Life Members $2,325.00 Fees from Sustaining Members 287.00 Fees from Juniors 505.12 Dues 1,355.85 Donations 3,932.23 Sale of Charts 3,535.56 Sale of Publications 472.00 Sale of Birdhouses 374.32 Sale of Calendars 892.50 Lectures 2,317.50 Cash for check 47.10 Chart Booklets 7.20 Lecture Returns 3.00 Refunds 3.00 Express Returns 12.00 Copying list of names 1.00 Part expenses of National Association of Audubon Societies 424.44 Miscellaneous 26.88 Interest 69.28 166.65 Total Receipts $14,265.98 $2,491.66 Balance January 1, 1916 2,351.66 3,611.89 $16,617.64 $6,103.54 Expenditures 11,026.62 Balance January 1, 1917 $5,591.02 $6,103.54 Report of the Treasurer 23 Expenditures — January 1, 1916, to December 31, 1916 General FddiI Reserve Fund Salaries $2,641.75 Printing 917.47 Postage ] ,374.98 Rent 250.00 Telephone 90.35 Express 172.53 Publications 433.16 Supplies 366.60 Birdhouses 262.35 Lecture Salaries and Expenses 841.05 *Dr. Field's Expenses on Treaty 1,540.17 Telegrams for Treaty 20.00 Folding 6.40 Bird Food at Sharon 7.55 Treasurer's Bond 1 2.50 E. C. Ware at Springfield Exhibition 25.00 Transfer to National Association for Juniors 18.60 National Association of Audubon Societies Contribution to Enabling Act 500.00 Refund on Calendars 3.00 List of names 1.50 Henry Oldys for work on Juniors 250.00 New Issue of Chart No. 2 854.41 Insurance on Charts 12.75 Travelling Expenses 37.22 Check for Cash 47.10 Shelving in Room 13.40 Sanctuary Expenses 25.00 Transfer to Reserve Fund 25.00 Expenses of Bird Day 20.00 Purchase of Slides 50.00 Auditing Books 35.00 Transfer to National Association 5.00 Janitor Service 47.00 Messenger Service 19.05 Miscellaneous 97.53 Bank Charges 3.20 Total Expenditures $11,026.62 * Includes also work on spring shooting. LIFE MEMBERS. Abercrombie, W. H., 19 Linden St., Brookline Adams, Mrs. Ivers, 98 Washington St., Dor- chester, Mass. Agassiz, R. L., 14 Ashburton Place, Boston Allen, Mrs. R. H., 240 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Ames, Mrs. Hobart, North Easton, Mass. Ames, Mrs. J. B., 11 Frisbie Place, Cambridge Ames, John S., North Easton, Mass. Amory, Mrs. Wm., 341 Beacon St., Boston Appleton, Mrs. William, 74 Beacon St., Boston Bacon, Miss E. S., Prince St., Jamaica Plain Badger, Erastus B., 856 Beacon St., Boston Bangs, Dr. L. Bolton, Stockbridge, Mass. Barnard, Miss L. F. S., P. O. Box 2608, Boston Bartol, Mrs. J. W., 1 Chestnut St., Boston Bartol, Dr. J. W., 1 Chestnut St., Boston Beech, Mrs. Herbert, 186 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Bemis, Frank R., 15 State St., Boston Biddle, Miss E. W., 122 S. 22nd St., Philadel- phia, Pa. Bigelow, Charles, P. O. Box 2863, Boston Bigelow, Dr. W. S., 60 Beacon St., Boston Blake, Mrs. Arthur W., Brookline, Mass. Blake, Mrs. Francis, Auburndale, Mass. Blake, Miss Marian L., 39 Brimmer St., Boston Blanchard, Miss Sarah H., 249 Tappan St., Brookline, Mass. Bowen, Miss F. C, 187 Rock St., Fall River Brewer, Edward M., 40 Churchill Lane, Milton Brewster, William, 145 Brattle St., Cambridge Bridge, Mrs. Edmund C, 52 Wyman St., West Medford, Mass. Brigham, Miss Lucy M., 27 Linnaean St., Camb. Brooks, Gorham, West Medford, Mass. Brooks, Mrs. Peter C, 2 Deerfield St., Boston Brooks, Peter C, 23 Court St., Boston Brooks, Mrs. Shepard, 92 Beacon St., Boston Brooks, Shepard, 92 Beacon St., Boston Brown, Miss Elizabeth Bowen, 290 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Brown. T. Hassall, The Tudor, Boston Bullard, Mrs. Wm. S., 3 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Burr, Mrs. Allston, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Butler, Miss Virginia, Stockbridge, Mass. Cabot, Mrs. Arthur, Ponkapoag, Mass. Cabot, Mrs. Samuel, 109 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Cary, Miss Alice B., Lexington, Mass. Chase, Mrs. Alice B., 47 Baltimore St., Lynn Chase, Miss Alice P., 47 Baltimore St., Lynn Chase, Mrs. M. C. B., 86 Huntington Ave., Bos. Chase, Mrs. Theodore, 168 Marlboro St., Boston Choate, Joseph H.. 8 E. 63rd St., New York Churchill, Joseph R., 32 Percival St., Dorchester Clapp, Mrs. Clift Rogers, 49 Temple St., West Newton, Mass. Clatk, Mrs. J. Dudley, 32 Hereford St., Boston Cochrane, Mrs. Albertina G., Zl Dean St., Station A, Worcester, Mass. Cochrane, Alexander, 40 Central St., Boston Codman, Miss Catherine A., 35 Brimmer St., Bos. Coes, Mrs. John H., 1058 Main St., Worcester Cole, Mrs. Edmund, South Hamilton, Mass. Colfelt, Mrs. Rebecca McM., Glen Loch, Pa. Converse, Mrs. C. C, 348 Beacon St., Boston Coolidge, Archibald Cary, Cambridge Coolidge, Archibald Cary, 2d, 7 Fayerweather St., Cambridge Coolidge, Mrs. Harold J., 303 Berkeley St., Bos. Coolidge, Mrs. J. Randolph, 130 Beacon St., Bos. Corey, Eben F., Harvard, Mass. Cote, Mrs. Emma S., Near Amesbury Pond, Haverhill, Mass. Crane, R. T., Jr., 836 S. Michigan Ave., Chicago Crane, Mrs. Zenas, Dalton, Mass. Creed, Mrs. Milton A., 196 Chestnut St., Gardner Crehore, Frederic M., P. O. Box 1252, Boston Crocker, Miss Darthea, 136 Prospect St., Fitchburg Crocker, Mrs. Emmons, 43 Mechanic St., Fitch. Crocker, Mrs. G. G., 343 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Cunningham, Mrs. Frederic, Ivy St., Longwood Curtis, Miss F. G., 28 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Curtis, H. G., 179 Marlborough St., Boston Curtis, Miss Margaret, 28 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Dalton, Mrs. C. L., 33 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Dane, Mrs. Eunice Cooksey, 29 Marlborough St., Boston Daniels, Mrs. Abby J., P. O. Box 5089, Boston Danielson, Miss Clara M., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Davis, Andrew M., 10 Appleton St., Cambridge Davis, Livingstone, Brush Hill Rd., Milton Davol, Miss Florence W., 248 Winthrop St., Taunton, Mass. Day, Mrs. F. A., 154 Sargent St., Newton Delano, Miss Julia, 20 Hawthorne St., New Bedford, Mass. Dexter, Miss Rose L., 400 Beacon St., Boston Dole, Mrs. Charles F., 14 Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Douglass, Miss Adeline A., 1663 Mass. Ave., Cambridge Draper, Wallace S., Wayland, Mass. Drown, Mrs. Edward S., 118 Brattle St., Camb. Dunham, Arthur L., Irvington-on-Hudson, N. Y. Dutcher, Frank J., Hopedale, Mass. Dutcher, Miss Grace M., Hopedale, Mass. Edmands, Mrs. Frank, 98 Lake Ave., Newton Centre, Mass. Edmands, Mrs. M. G., 16 Devon Rd., Chestnut Hill Edwards, Miss Grace, 266 Beacon St., Boston Edwards, Miss Hannah M.. 266 Beacon St., Bos. Eliot, Mrs. C. W., 17 Fresh Pond Parkway, Camb. Elliot, Mrs. J. W., 124 Beacon St., Boston Ellison, Mrs. W. P., 15 Vernon St., Newton Ely, Miss Augusta C, Waltham, Mass. Emerson, Mrs. Edward W., Concord, Mass. Emerton, Miss Caroline O., 328 Essex St., Salem Emery, Miss G. H., 70 Waverly Ave., Newton Emery, Miss Mary E., Newburyport, Mass. Emmons, Mrs. R. B., 91 Beacon St., Boston Endicott, Wm., 32 Beacon St., Boston Ensign, Mrs. Dwight W., 6 Bigelow St., Camb. Estabrook, Arthur F., 346 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Evans, Mrs. Robert D., 17 Gloucester St., Bos. Farrington, Miss Elinor, 56 Bellevue St., West Roxbury, Mass. Farwell, Edward S., 30 Melville Ave., Dorchester Farwell, Mrs. John W., 457 Beacon St., Boston Faulkner, Miss F. M., 80 Beacon St., Boston Fay, Dudley B., 287 Beacon St., Boston Fay, Miss S. B., 88 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Fay, Miss Sarah M., 94 Beacon St., Boston Fenno, Mrs. L. Cartaret, Rowley, Mass. Ferry, Miss Fannie S., 451 Chestnut St., Spring- field, Mass. Ferry, Miss Harriette C, 451 Chestnut St., Springfield, Mass. Fessenden, Judge Franklin G., Greenfield. Mass. Fish, Mrs. F. P., 9 Prescott St., Brookline Fisher, Mrs. R. T., Petersham, Mass. Fiske, E. W., 10 P. O. Square, Boston Fiske, G. S., 117 Trenton St., East Boston Fitz, Mrs. W. Scott. 75 Beacon St., Bostr-i! Folsom, Miss M. G., 56 Alleghany St., RliJki: ^r Forbes, Mrs. Alexander, Milton, Mass. Forbes, Ralph E., 709 Sears Bldg, Boston Foster. Mrs. Frances C, 15 Oxford St., Canili. Fox, The Misses, 29 Gray St., Arlington. Mas.*. French, Mrs. Albert M., Scotland Rd., Realing French, Miss C. A., 230 Marlborough St., Bos. Life Members 25 French, Miss Caroline L. W., 42 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Frothingham, Mrs. L. A., North Easton, Mass. Gardner, Mrs. John L., Fenway Court, Boston Gilbert, Mrs. Grace B., Ware, Mass. Goddard, G. A., 10 Tremont St., Boston Gordon, Mrs. Donald, 9 Gloucester St., Boston Gourgas, John M., Concord, Mass. Green, Dr. Charles M., 78 Marlborough St., Bos. Grew, Mrs. Henry S., 89 Beacon St., Boston Griffith, Mrs. Polly D., Avon, Mass. Grinnell, Miss Mary R., 76 Cottage St., New Bedford, Mass. Grinnell, Miss Susan B., 541 Boylston St., Bos. Guild, Frederick, 76 Bay State Rd.. Boston Hallowell, Mrs. Norwood P., SI Mystic St., West Medford, Mass. Harwood, Mrs. G. S., "Sunnyhurst," Newton Hemenway, Augustus, 273 Clarendon St., Boston Hemenway, Mrs. Augustus, 273 Clarendon St., Boston Hemenway, Miss Clara, 242 Beacon St., Boston Hemphill, Ashton E., Holyoke, Mass. Henshaw, Samuel, 19 Fayerweather St., Camb. Hersey, The Misses, 315 Walnut Ave., Roxbury Higginson, Mrs. Henry L., 191 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Hildreth, Miss Emily E., Harvard, Mass. Hodge, Prof. C. F., Eugene, Oregon Hoffmann, Bernhard, Stockbridge, Mass. Holbrook, E. Everett, 382 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Hood, Miss Helen, Care Old Colony Trust Co., Boston Hooper, Mrs. James R., 478 Beacon St., Boston Hopewell, Mrs. Frank, 419 Waverly Ave., Newton Hopewell, John, 273 Waverly Ave., Newton Hosmer, Ernest H., Bedford, Mass. Houghton, Clement S., 60 State St., Boston Houghton, Miss Elizabeth G., 191 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Humphreys, Charles A., 31 Monadnock St., Dorchester Hunnewell, Mrs. Arthur, 303 Dartmouth St., Bos. Hunnewell, F. W., 2nd, Wellesley, Mass. Hunnewell, Mrs. Henry S., Wellesley, Mass. Hunnewell, Walter L., 87 Milk St., Boston Hunt, Mrs. David, 17 Gloucester St., Boston lasigi, Mrs. Oscar, Stockbridge, Mass. Ives, Miss Helen B., 52 Temple PI., Care Old Colony Trust Co., Boston Jackson, Mrs. Anna P., 383 Beacon St., Boston Jackson, Miss Marian C, 88 Marlborough St., Bos. Johnson, Mrs. Luther S., 226 Ocean St., Lynn Jones, Miss Amelia H., 396 County St., New Bedford, Mass. Kaufman, Mrs. Carl F., 32 Marlborough St., Bos. Keep, Dr. Charles M., 35 Longwood Ave., B'kline Kennard, Frederic H., Dudley Rd., Newton Centre Kennedy, Dr. George G., Readville, Mass. Kennedy, Miss Mildred, Readville, Mass. Kettle, Mrs. E. M., Weston, Mass. Kidder, Charles A., 120 Beacon St., Boston Kidder, Mrs. Henry P., 163 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Kidder, N. T., Milton, Mass. Kilham, Miss Louisa B., Beverley, Mass. Kimball, Mrs. David P., P. O. Box 2133, Boston Kimball, Miss Hannah H., Kent St., Brookline Kimball, Miss Helen F., Kent St., Brookline Kimball, Miss Lulu S., Kent St., Brookline King. Miss Caroline W., 179 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Kittredge, Mrs. John, Hotel Vendome, Boston Lancashire, Mrs. J. H., Manchester, Mass. Laughlin, Mrs. Harriet M. P., 50 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Laurence, Roswell B., 745 Tremont Bldg, Boston Lee, Mrs. Francis H., 28 Chestnut St., Salem Lee, Mrs. John C, Grove St., Wellesley, Mass. Leverett, George V., 53 Devonshire St., Boston Lewis, J. B., 101 Tremont St., Boston Lockwood, Thomas St. J., 68 Bay State Rd Bos Long, H. v., 260 Clarendon St., Boston Longyear, John M., Leicester St., Brookline Loring, Miss Katherine P., Pride's Crossing Lonng, Mr. and Mrs. William Caleb, 2 Glouces- ter St., Boston Lowell, Miss Georgina, 12 Fairfield St., Boston Mclntyre, Mrs. Harriette E., 151 Franklin St., Newton, Mass. Mackintosh, Newton, 39 St. James St., Roxbury Mann, Rev. Alexander, Trinity Church, Boston May, Miss Eleanor G., 857 Beacon St., Boston Mason, Miss E. F., 1 Walnut St., Boston Mason, Miss E. L., 42 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Melvin, Mrs. James C, Copley Square Hotel, Bos. Merriam, F., 183 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Meyer, Miss Heloise, Lenox, Mass. Montgomery, Miss Mary A., 99 West Brittannia St., Taunton, Mass. Morison, George B., 201 Devonshire St., Boston Morison, Robert S., 17 Farrar St., Cambridge Morrill, Miss A. W., 11 Arlington St., Boston Morrill, Miss Marjorie A., Glen Ridge Rd., Dedham, Mass. Morris, Robert O., 82 Temple St., Springfield Morrison, Thacher, Weston, Mass. Morse, C. F., Falmouth, Mass. Morse, Miss Frances R., 12 Marlborough St., Bos. Morse, Dr. Henry Lee, 112 Marlborough St., Bos. Munroe, Miss Emma F., 17 Traill St., Cambridge Newbold, Wm. Henry, 113 S. 5th St., Philadel- phia, Pa. Nickerson, Miss Helen, East Brewster, Mass. Nickerson, Mrs. Roland, East Brewster, Mass. Norcross, Grenville H., 9 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Ordway, Miss Mary E., 59 Jackson St., Lawrence Page, Irving H., Chicopee Falls, Mass. Paine, Miss Ethel L., 118 Brattle St., Camb. Paine, Mrs. James L., 9 Waterhouse St., Camb. Parker, Edward Ludlow, Nashawtuck Rd., Concord Parker, Miss Eleanor, 199 Marlborough St., Bos. Parker, Hon. Herbert, S. Lancaster, Mass. Parsons, Miss Gertude, Lenox, Mass. Peabody, Rev. Endicott, Groton, Mass. Peabody, Mrs. Frank Everett, 120 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Peabody, George A., Danvers, Mass. Peabody. Miss L. M., 9 St. James St., Roxbury Pearse, Miss Alice W., 317 Walnut Ave.. Roxbury Pearson, Miss Mary A., Normal School, North Adams, Mass. Peirce, Miss Clara C, 88 Salem St., Reading Peirce, Mrs. Elizabeth G., 252 Franklin St., New- ton, Mass. Perkins, John Forbes, 12 Ashhurton PI., Boston Perry, Thomas S., 312 Marlborough St., Boston Phillips, Dr. John C, Wenham, Mass. Phillips, Mrs. John C, 8 Gloucester St., Boston Phillips, Mrs. John C, Jr., Wenham, Mass. Pickering, Miss Mary O., 18 Broad St., Salem Pickman. Mrs. Dudley L., 98 Beacon St., Boston Pierce, Mrs. A. Martin, 26 S. 6th St., New Bedford, Mass. Pierce, Miss Annie S., 346 Essex St., Salem Pierce. Wallace L., P. O. Box 57, Boston Pierson, Charles L., 191 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Porter. Mrs. Alex. S., Jr., 187 Marlborough St., Boston Porter, Miss Juliet, 37 Dean St., Station A, Wor- cester, Mass. Proctor, Henry H.. 12 South St., Boston Purdie, Miss Evelyn. 194 Clarendon St., Boston Quincy, G. S., 214 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Quincy, Miss Elinor, 452 Beacon St., Boston Ramsey, Rev. Wm. H., Wellesley Hills, Mass Reed, Mrs. W. H., 218 Com'wealth Ave., Bos Reed, William Howell, Jr., 81 Walnut St., Rox Remick, F. W., 34 Exeter St., West Newton 26 Massachusetts Audubon Society Remington, Seth P., 22 May St., Worcester Richards, Miss Harriet E., 36 Longwood Ave., Brookline, Mass. Richardson, Mrs. E. C, 9 Bay State Rd., Boston Richardson, William L., M. D., 225 Common- wealth Ave., Boston Ripley, E. L., 72 Lincoln St., Boston Robbins, Miss Jenny Loring, 505 W. Ormsby Ave., Louisville, Ky. Robbins, Reginald C, Lone Tree Farm, Hamilton Robbins, Mrs. Reginald C, Lone Tree Farm, Hamilton, Mass. Robbins, Royal E., 61 Monmouth St., Brookline Robbins, Mrs. R. E., 61 Monmouth St., B'kline Rogers, Mrs. Jacob C, 231 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Rogers, W. B., Dedham, Mass. Rotch, Mrs. Mary R., 427 County St., New Bedford, Mass. Rousmanier, Mrs. E. S., 56 Chestnut St., Boston Rueter, Miss Helene E., Jamaica Plain Russell, Mrs. Henry S., Home Farm, Milton Russell, Mrs. Robert S., 20 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Russell, Mrs. William A., 59 Bay State Rd., Bos. Ryerson, Miss Eleanor, Plymouth, Mass. Saltonstall, Mrs. Eleanor, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Saltonstall, John L., 60 State St., Boston Saltonstall, Leverett, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Saltonstall, Miss Muriel G., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Saltonstall, Richard, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Saltonstall, Robert, 50 State St., Boston Sawyer, Miss Ellen M., 1840 Mass. Ave., Camb. Seabury, Miss Caroline O., 398 County St., New Bedford, Mass. Seabury, Miss Sarah E., 398 County St., New Bedford, Mass. Searle, Mrs. Sarah F., Northborough, Mass. Sears, Miss Annie L., 85 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Sears, Miss C. E., 132 Beacon St., Boston Sears, Mrs. H. D., Framingham, Mass. Sears, Miss Mary P., Waltham, Mass. Sears, William R., 20 Brimmer St., Boston Shaw, Miss Pauline A., Perkins St., J. Plain Sherman, Malcolm C, Windsor, Vt. Shumway, Miss Ellen M., 373 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Silsbee, Mrs. George S., 512 Beacon St., Boston Simpkins, Miss M. W., 7 Lakeville PL, J. Plain Slade, Mrs. D. D., Hammond St., Chestnut Hill Smith, Mrs. Joseph N., 490 Beacon St., Boston Smith, Mrs. Charles C, 286 Marlborough St., Bos. Spaulding, John T., Revere Sugar Refinery, Bos. Spaulding, Wm. S., Revere Sugar Refinery, Bos. Spencer, Mrs. A. W., The Tudor, Boston Sprague, Dr. F. P., 229 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Sprague, Mrs. Isaac, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Sprague, Isaac, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Sprague, Mrs. S. E., 367 Beacon St., Boston Stackpole, Mrs. Frederick D., Lincoln, Mass. Staniford, Mrs. Daniel, The Ludlow, Boston Stevenson, Miss Annie B., 94 Upland Rd., B'kline Stewart, Andrew, 40 State St., Boston Stone, Miss Caroline, South Dartmouth, Mass. Stone, Nathaniel H., 614 Sears Bldg., Boston Stone, Philip B., 407 Beacon St., Boston Storrow, Miss E. R., 2029 S. 8th St., Phila- delphia, Pa. Sturgis, Miss F. C, 63 Beacon St., Boston Sturgis, Miss Mabel, Manchester, Mass. Swain, Miss E. D., 16 Craigie St., Cambridge Swift, Mrs. Sarah J., 22 Oak Ave., Worcester Talbot, Dr. Fritz B., Cottage Farm Rd., B'kline Tapley, Miss Alice P., Hotel Vendome, Boston Taylor, Mrs. John P., Andover, Mass. Thacher, Miss Martha, 57 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Thacher, Miss Mary, 57 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Thayer, Mrs. E. R., 77 Bay State Rd., Boston Thayer, Mrs. John E., Lancaster, Mass. Thayer, Mrs. Nathaniel, Lancaster, Mass. Thorndike, Sturgis H., Hotel Charlesgate, Bos. Tilden, Mrs. Charles Linzee, Hyde Park, Mass. Tower, Miss Florence E., 49 Seminary Ave., Auburndale, Mass. Traiser, Charles H., 530 Beacon St., Boston Travelli, Charles I., West Newton, Mass. True, Eben, Amesbury, Mass. True, Miss Sarah, Amesbury, Mass. Twombley, J. F., 34 Green St., Brookline Tyson, Miss Elizabeth R., 314 Dartmouth St., Bos. Tyson, Mrs. George 314 Dartmouth St., Boston Van Brunt, Mrs. Charles, Readville, Mass. Vickery, Mrs. H. F., 263 Beacon St., Boston Wadsworth, Eliot, 147 Milk St., Boston Walker, Charles C, 7 Arlington St., Boston Walker, William B., Manchester, Mass. Ward, Miss Anita S., 415 Beacon St., Boston Warren, Miss Alice B., 164 Park St., W. Rox. Waterman, Miss Hannah P.. North Adams Watson, Thomas A., 67 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Webster, F. G., Box 7, Boston Webster, Henry S., 89 Erie Ave., Newton Highlands, Mass. Weeks, Andrew G., 8 Congress St., Boston Weeks, Warren B. P., 8 Congress St., Boston Wharton, Wm. P., Groton, Mass. Wheeler, Miss Helen, 72 Marlborough St., Bos. Wheelwright, Mrs. A. C, 72 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Whitney, Mrs. G. G., 754 Canton Ave., Milton Whittemore, Charles, Albany St., Cambridge Wigglesworth, George, S3 State St., Boston Willcox, Prof. M. A., 63 Oakwood Rd., New- tonville, Mass. Williams, Miss Adelia, 445 Warren St., Rox. Williams, David W., Room 1016, 131 State St., Boston Williams, John D., 160 State St., Boston Winslow, Mrs. Samuel E., Stonewall Farm, Leicester, Mass. Winsor, Miss Mary P., Dudley Rd., Newton Cen. Wood, Wm. M., P. O. Box 381, Boston Woodman, Mrs. George H., Hotel Touwine, Bos. Woodman, Miss Mary, 9 Kirkland St., Camb. Wyman, F. W., 151 Tremont St., Boston SUSTAINING MEMBERS. Abbott. E. B., 375 Main St., Worcester Abbott, Mrs. E. H., 1 Pollen St., Cambridge Abbott, Mrs. F. N., 50 Thorndike St., Lawrence Abbott, Mrs. Grafton St., Box 578, Concord Abbott, Holker, Wellesley Hills Abbott, Miss Marion S., 23 Berkeley St., Camb. Abbott, Mrs. P. W., 293 Com'wealth Ave., Boston Abbott, Waldo L., Hotel Somerset, Boston Adams, Mrs. Brooks, Quincy, Mass. Adams, Brooks, 33 Chestnut St., Boston Adams, Miss Carrie E., 167 Maple St., Springfield Adams, Mrs. Chas. H., 434 Jamaica Way, Jam. PI. Adams, Charles R., 78 Devonshire St., Boston Adams, Mrs. Constance, Framingham, Mass. Adams. Mrs. Edw. S., 660 Rock St., Fall River Adams, Miss Emily B., 167 Maple St., Springfield Adams, Mrs. F. M., 62 Lombard St., Newton Adams, Mrs. Herbert W., 18 Meredith St., Dorch. Adams, Howard S., Canton, Mass. Adams, Mrs. James, 90 Longwood Ave., Brookline Adams, Letitia D., M.D., 172 Dartmouth St., Bos. Adams, Rev. Raymond, M. D., North Brookfield Adams, Walter, Framingham, Mass. Adams, W. W., 180 Taber Ave., Providence, R. I. Affleck, G. B., 287 Hickory St., Springfield Aiken, Miss S. C, 105 Hancock St., Auburndale Albree, Fred W., 216 Highland St., West Newton Aldrich, Talbot, 34 Fairfield St., Boston Aldrich, Mrs. Talbot, 34 Fairfield St., Boston Alison, Geo., 177 Winthrop Rd., Brookline Allen, Annie E., 263 Harvard St., Cambridge Allen, Mrs. Bernard M., Andover, Mass. Allen, Carl A., 16 Fairfield Ave., Holyoke Allen, Mrs. Edw. E., Perkins Inst., Watertown Allen, Francis H., 4 Park St., Boston Allen, H. L., Dalton, Mass. Allen, Miss J. W., 5 Washington St., Cambridge Allen, Margaret E., 12 Marlboro St., Boston Allen, Miss Mary W., 5 Riedesel Ave., Cambridge Allen, Robt. H., 215 La Grange St., W. Roxbury Allison, Miss Carrie J., 65 Langdon St., Cambridge Almy, Mrs. Chas., 147 Brattle St., Cambridge Amidon, Mrs. F. A., Germain St., Worcester Amory, Mrs. C. W., 278 Beacon St., Boston Amory, Mrs. Harcourt, 293 Beacon St., Boston Amsden, F. D., 29 Summit Ave., Brookline Andrew, Miss Edith, 408 Beacon St., Boston Andrews, Geo. W., Dalton, Mass. Andrews, Kath. H., 199 Park St., W. Roxbury Andrews, Robt. D., 50 Congress St., Boston Anderson, Miss Sara, 66 Montclair Ave., Roslin. Anthony, Alfred W., Ocean Park, Maine Anthony, Mrs. Arthur, 386 High St., Fall River Anthony, Mrs. S. Reed, 113 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Apthorp, Mrs. H. D., Milton, Mass. Arnold, Mrs. W. R., 25 Kirkland St., Cambridge Atherton, Edw. H., 82 Ruthven St., Roxbury Atherton, Mrs. Isabel R., 222 Marlboro St., Bos Atherton, Percy L., 144 Com'wealth Ave., Boston Atkins, Mrs. E. F., Belmont, Mass. Atkins, Edwin F., Belmont, Mass. Atkins, Mrs. Robert W., Belmont, Mass. Atkinson, H. R., Heath Hill, Brookline Atkinson, Miss S. P., 38 Chestnut St., Boston Atwood, C. J., 78 Bellevue St., W. Roxbury Audubon, Miss H. B., 1407 S. 4th St., Louisville, Austin, Miss Edith 9 Arlington St., Bos'n [Ky. Averill, Florence M., Box 74, No. Andover Ayars, Christine M., 131 Davis Ave., Brookline Ayars, Mrs. Henry M., 131 Davis Ave., Brookline Ayer, Chas. F., 127 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Ayres, Miss Mary A., 119 High St., Medford Babcock, Dr. H. L., Woodleigh Rd., Dedham Babson, Mrs. Albert. P., 8 Hurlbut St., Camb. Bacon, Miss E. M., 147 Ruthven St., Roxbury Bacon, Miss Mary P., 45 Devon St., Chestnut Hill Bacon, Paul V., 1 Cypress Rd., Wellesley Hills Badger, .\rthur C, Oak Hill, Newton Centre Bagg, Aaron C, 70 Fairfield Ave., Holyoke Bagg, Edward P., Holyoke, Mass. Bailin, Samuel L., 816 Tremont Bldg., Boston Bailey, Miss Cora E., 81 Warren Ave., Brockton Bailey, Miss Esther, 1172 Mass. Ave., Arlington Bailey, S. I., 80 Buckingham St., Cambridge Baird, Miss Minnie L., Lee, Mass. Baker, Mrs. J. A., Fall River, Mass. Baker, Mrs. R. T., 53 Bartlett Cres., Brookline Balch, Harry G., 279 Clarendon St., Boston Balch, Mrs. John, 162 Adams St., Milton, Mass. Balch, John, 162 Adams St., Milton, Mass. Baldwin, Miss F. St. T., 89 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Baldwin, Mrs. J. C. T.. 96 Crafts Rd., Ches. Hill Baldwin, Mrs. John D., 19 Cedar St., Worcester Baldwin, Morton G., 620 Atlantic Ave., Boston Ball, Miss Helen A., 43 Laurel St., Worcester Ballou, Alphonso A., 12 Nye Ave., Brockton Bangs, Outram, Museum of Com. Zoology, Camb. Barie. Mrs. John A., 346 Maple St., Springfield Barker, Eva M., 11 Moultrie St., Dor. Centre Barker, Mrs. Edward T., Kingston, Mass. Barney, Mrs. Charles E., 96 Bay State Rd., Boi. Barrows, Mrs. C. M., 113 Appleton Ave., P'tsfield Barry, Miss Amy F., 53 Oakland St., Melrose Barry, Miss Anna K., 5 Bowdoin Ave., Dor. Bartlett, A. F., Ill Sutherland Road, Boston Bartlett, Mrs. Henry, 51 Highland St., Cambridga Bartlett, Mrs. Ida F., Manomet, Mass. Bartlett, Miss Mary F., 227 Com. Ave., Boston Bartlett, Mary H., 270 C'wealth Ave., Boston Bartlett, Mrs. N. S., Jr., Wellesley, Mass. Bartlett, Mrs. Sapulding, Webster, Mass. Bartlett, Truman H., 30 St. James Ave., Boston Bartol, Mrs. Edward F. W., Milton, Mass. Bartol, Miss Eliz. H., 17 Chestnut St., Boston Barton, Mrs. Edmund M., Salisbury St., Wor. Barton, Francis L., Cotuit, Mass. Barton, Miss Mary L., Concord, Mass. Bass, Miss Emma M., Newtonville, Mass. Bassett, Wm. G., Northampton, Mass. Batchelder, Miss E., 25 Town St., S. Braintree Batcheller, Margt. T., 262 Walnut St., Brookline Bates, Miss Abby B., 1421 University Ave., N. Y. Bates, Katherine Lee, 70 Curve St., Wellesley Bates, Walter C, 94 Green St., Jamaica Plain Battles, Mrs. Charles H., R.F.D. No. 1, Lowell Battles, Miss Josephine S., R.F.D. No. 1, Lowell Bayley, Edward B., 70 Kilby St., Boston, Mass. Bayles, James, Tyngsboro, Mass. Beach, C. Y., Pittsfield, Mass. Beals, George C, 24 State St., Boston, Mass. Beale, Miss Jessie F., 930 North St., Walpole Beal, Mrs. Mary, Union St., Rockland, Mass. Bean, Mrs. H. S., 32 Powell St., Brookline Bearse, Miss Janet S., Sumner Road, Brookline Beatty, Mrs. E. A., 6504 N. 12th St., Phila. Pa. Beckley, Chester C, Lancaster, Mass. Bedinger, Grace V., Salem, Mass. Beebe, E. Pierson, 6 Beacon St., Boston Beebe, Franklin H., 30 Beacon St., Boston Beebe, Dr. John B., Great Barrington, Mass. Beecher, Mary C, 179 Davis Ave., Brookline Beede, Mrs. D. Edw., 12 Windsor St., Worcester Beede, Mrs. Daniel G., 29 Dever Rd., Wellesley Belcher, Edward F., Framingham, Mass. Bellamy, Mrs. Wm., 171 Bowdoin Ave., Dor. Bemis, Benjamin F., Gleasondale, Mass. Benson, Edw. M., 10 Craigie St., Cambridge Bent, A. C, Taunton, Mass. Bent, C. Leslie, 129 Elm St.. Gardner, Mass. Bentley, Miss Alice E., 8 Rutledge St., W. Rox. Berkshire Animal Rescue League, Pittsfield Bibbey, Miss Mary L., 21 Wales St., Dorchester Bicknell, Wm. J., Newton Highlands, Mass. 28 Massachusetts Audubon Society Bigelow, Albert F., 84 State St., Boston Bigelow, Mrs. Ellen L.. Trade Farm Harvard Bilelow, H. B., Mus. Com. Zoology, Cambridge Bigelow, Mrs. Melville, 200 Brattle St., Camb. Bigelow, R. P.. Mass. Inst, of Tech, Boston Binney, Horace, 205 Beacon St Boston Birch. Albert, 56 Fairmount St., Belmont Mass Birch Mrs. M. Louise, 56 Fairmount St.. Belmont Bird, Mrs. Anna C, East Walpole, Mass. Bishop, Miss M. J., 61 Sparks St., Cambridge Black Mrs. W. H., 19 Grosvenor Rd., J. Flam Blackburn, Virginia, Southbridge, Mass Blackford, Mrs. E. B., 117 Falmouth St., Boston Blackmar, Mrs. W. W. 72 C'wealth Ave.. Boston Blaisdell, George A., Chicopee, Mass. Blake, B. S., Auburndale, Mass. Blake, Mrs. C. C, 16 Garrison Road, Brookline Blake! E. B., Greenfield, Mass. Blake, George Baty, Lenox, Mass. Blake, Miss Isabel, 168 Newbury St., Boston Blake Mrs. S. P., 39 Brimmer St., Boston Blake, William P., 27 Kilby St., Boston Blake Mrs. Wm. S.. 54 Sidney St Dorchester Blanchard, Mrs. Emma, 159 Upland Rd., N. Cam. Blanchard, H. Lawton, Brockton. Mass. Blaney, Miss H. C, 249 Berkeley St Boston Blatchford, Miss M. E., 156 Brattle St. Camb. Bliss, Edmund C, Phoenix Bldg., Holy°¥ Bliss, Mrs. E. C, Phoenix Bldg., Holyoke Boardman, Mrs. A. L., 199 Mar borough St., Bos. Boardman, Miss E. D., 416 Marlborough St., Bos. Bodwell, Henry A., Andover Mass. , -a ^ Boggs, Mrs. Edwin P., 336 Broadway, Cambridge Bolles, Miss D. F., 305 Commonwealth Ave. Bos. Bolles, Mrs. Frank, 6 Berkeley St Cambridge Bonneville, Mrs. A. J., Box 483. Hatfield, Mass. Borden, Miss Edna L., 154 Fair St., N. Bedford Bosson, Campbell, 27 Hereford St. Boston Bosson. Mrs. Harry B.. Reading, Mass. Boston Ruskin Club (Mrs. C. S. Blackman), 172 Harvard St., Brookline. Mass. , Bostwick, Miss Clara L.. "The Elms," Springfield Bosworth. Miss Henrietta Y., Lee, Mass. Botsford, Mrs. C. B., Garfield Ave., W. Roxbury Boutell, F. S., Andover, Mass. Bowditch, Mrs. N. I., Framingham Mass Bowen, Alice M., 437 Central St., Springfield Bowen. E. S., Pawtucket, R- L „ ^ , Bowker, Miss Louise, 99 Minot St., Dorchester Bowles, Mrs. Alexr., 57 Cedar St., Worcester Boyd, Miss C. B., 19 Pleasant St., Marlboro Boynton, Miss Lucasta J.. Bradford, Mass. Bracken, Mrs. Howard W., Hopedale. Mass. Bracket, Mrs. I. L., 50 Pleasant St.. Brookline Bradbury, Miss Margt. S., 369 Harvard St., Cam. Bradlee, F. G., 222 Boylston St., Boston Bradlee, Miss Mary E., 113 Beacon St., Boston Bradley, Miss Abby A., Hingham, Mass. Bradley. Peter B., 344 Tappan St., Brookline Bradley, Robert S., 92 State St., Boston Bradstreet, Wm. D., 45 Milk St., Boston Brainerd, Barron, 57 Monmouth St., Brookline Brainerd, John B., 419 Boylston St.. Boston Bray Mrs. W. C, Newton Centre, Mass. Brayton A. P., 260 North Main St., Fall River Brayton. Mrs. H. A., 260 N. Main St., Fall River Bremer. T. L., Cohasset. Mass. Bremer, Mrs. J. L.. 416 Beacon St., Boston Brett, Franklin. 31 Beacon St., Boston Brewer, Miss Mary Adele, Stockbridge, Mass. Brewster, E. T., Andover, Mass. ^ ^ .^ Brewster, Mrs. Wm., 145 Brattle St., Cambridge Bridge, Edmund, 52 Wyman St., W. Medford Briggs Edward C, 129 Marlborough St., Boston Brigham Mrs. F. G., 48 Devon Road, Brookline Brightman, Mrs. J. C, Green Hill Pk., Worcester Brightman, Louis E., Green Hill Pk., Worcester Brightman, Miss Mary F.. Green Hill Pk.. Wor. Broadwell, Miss Imogene G., Longmeadow. Mass. Bronson, Rev. Dillon, 25 Park St., Brookline Brookline Bird Club, The, Chevalier, Miss Ada E., Brookline, Mass. Brooks, H. A., 99 Lexington Ave., Cambridge Brooks. Henry G.. Milton. Mass. Brooks, Mrs. Henry G., Milton, Mass. Brooks, Mrs. L. S., 126 Chestnut St., Springfield Brooks, Miss Martha W.. Petersham. Mass. Brown. Albert C. 89 S. Market St.. Boston Brown, Miss A. M., 389 Marlboro St., Boston Brown, Davenport, 19 Brimmer St., Boston Brown, Mrs. Edwin, 17 Elm S., Worcester Brown, E. J., Clyde St., Brookline, Mass. Brown, Miss E. L., North Grafton, Mass. Brown, Miss Ellen L.. 19 Regent Circle. Brookline Brown, Miss Fanny G., Stafford Springs, Conn. Brown, Mrs. Rosa H., 711 Main St.. Fitchburg Brown. G. F., Needham, Mass. Brown, Mrs. Hannah T., 362 Tappan St., B'linc Brown, Miss L. Caroline, Concord, Mass. Brown, Miss L. Irene, 380 Park St., W. Roxbury Brown, Dr. Plumb, 503 State St., Springfield Bruce, Mrs. Alexr.. 33 Glen St., Worcester Buck, Miss Kate, 44 Ridge Ave., Newton Centre Bullard, Mrs. A. M., Milton, Mass. Bullard, Miss E. M.. 21 Grove St., Orange, Mass. Bullard, Miss K.. 3 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Bullard, Mrs. J. D., 19 Ware St., Cambridge Bullock, Rufus A.. 3 Brimmer St., Boston Bullock, Mrs. S. J., 350 Tappan St., Brookline Burden, Dr. E. D., 1684 Beacon St., Brookline Burdett, Mrs. George A., Newton Centre, Mass. Burgess. John K., Broad Oak, Dedham, Mass. Burke, E. J., 26 Dunster Road, Chestnut Hill, Burke, Miss Jane R., 41 Russell St.. Milton. Burke, Master J. R., 41 Russell St., Milton Burnham, Mrs. H. A., Ridgewood Ter., Waltham Burnstead, Miss J. F., 12 Berkeley St., Cambridge Burr, Mrs. Tucker, Jr., South St., Needham Burroughs, George, 30 Kilby .St., Boston Burwell. Miss Dorothy, 65 Griggs Rd., Brookline Bush, Mrs. S. Dacre, Hamilton, Mass. Butler, E. K., 938 Centre St., Jamaica Plain Byers. Mrs. William, "Stairwood," N. Andover Cabot, Dr. Hugh, 87 Marlborough St., Boston Caduc, E. E. 512 Massachusetts Ave.. Boston Caldwell, Miss Louise W., Alban St.. Dorchester Call. Dr. Emma L., 502 Beacon St., Boston Callahan, Mrs. M. E., Norway Place, Pittsfield Callender, Miss C. S., 677 Dudley St., The Glad- stone, Dorchester Campbell, C. A., Ipswich, Mass. Campbell, Miss Clara D., 1253 Beacon St., Boston Campbell, Miss, South St., Pittsfield Campbell, M., 440 Newtonville Ave., Newtonville Canterbury, Miss E. W., 71 Wendell Ave.. P'sfield Capen, George H.. 479 Sherman St., Canton Carey. Arthur A., Free Reading Room, Waltham Carlisle, Mrs. J. L., 73 Cherr- St.. N. Adams Carney, Edward B., 18 Shattuck St., Lowell Carpenter, Hall B., 58 Central St., Somerville Carroll, Miss Ellen S., 25 Wyman St.. W. M'dford Carroll, Mrs. E. L., 281 Dartmouth St., Boston Carruth, Charles, 4 Fayerweather St., Cambridge Carruth, Miss Ellen, Kearsage, N. H. Carter, H. H., 100-102 Federal St., Boston Carter, Mrs. H. H., Newtonville, Mass. Carter, James R., 246 Devonshire St., Boston Carter. Miss M. A., 104 Highland Ave., N't'nville Carter, Mr. & Mrs. R. B., 239 First St.. Camb. Casson, Mrs. R., 43 Gray Cliff Rd., Newton Cen. Chace, Fenner A., Fall River, Mass. Chamberlain, C. W.. 36 Lincoln St., Boston Chamberlain, M., 202 Boylston St., Boston Chamberlain, Mrs. M. L., 19 Exeter St., Boston Chamberlain, Dr. M. L., 19 Exeter St., Boston Chandler, Mrs. Alice G., 57 High St., Medford Chandler, Mrs. F. W., 195 Marlboro St.. Boston Chandler, Mrs. L. B., Sterling Junction, Mass. Channing, Mrs. A. K., 27 Chestnut Hill Ave., Brookline Channing, Miss Eva, Hemenway Chambers, Bos. Channing, Mrs. Hayden, Sherborn. Mass. Channing, Henry M., 18 Tremont St., Boston Chapin, E. M., 181 Elm St., Holyoke, Mass. Chapin, F. L., Southbridge, Mass. Chapin, H. D.. 50 State St., Boston Chapin, Mrs. Henry G.. Louder's Lane, J. Plain Chapin, Mrs. R. H.. 1328 Northampton St., H'oke Sustaining Members Chapman, Miss M. R., 102 Appleton St., Camb. Ckapman, Mrs. M. D., 734 State St., Springfield Chase, C. P., Springfield, Mass. Chase, Master C. W., Brush Hill Rd., Fr'ngham Chase, George S., 19 Lancaster St., Cambridge Chase, Mrs. Henry S., 19 Exeter St., W. Newton Chase, W. H., Leominster, Mass. Chase, Mrs. W. M., Wellesley Farms, Mass. Chase, Master W. R., Brush Hill Rd., Fr'ngham Cheever, Dr. C. A., 1531 Blue Hill Ave.. M't'pan Cheever, Dr. David, 20 Hereford St., Boston Cheney, Rev. R. F., St. Mark's Rect., Southboro Chester, Mrs. W. R., 239 Walnut St., Brookline Chever, Mrs. E. W., 200 Salem St., N. Andover Chick, F. S., 646 Washington St., Boston Chick, Mrs. F. W., 646 Washington St., Boston Childs, Mrs. F. C, Lexington, Mass. Chipman, Mrs. A. V., 239 Ashmont St., Dor. Chittenden, Mrs. A. A., 4S Salcombe St., Dor. Church, Elliott B., 30 Bennington St., Newton Church, Fred C, 103 Central St., Lowell Church, Mrs. George, Great Harrington, Mass. Churchill, Miss Abby P., 22 Gage St., Fitchburg Chute, Miss Mary, 350 Marlborough St., Boston Chute, Richard, 350 Marlborough St., Boston Civill, Miss Delle, Drawer D.. Taunton, Mass. Qapp, Miss Eliz. 49 Temple St., W. Newton Clark, Mrs. A. M. L., Lancaster, Mass. Clark, Mrs. E. Stuart, R.F.D. No. 1, Bryantville Clark, J. Warren, Millis, Mass. Clark, Mrs. John M., Marion, Mass. Clark, Miss M. D., 172 Marlborough St., Boston Oark, Mrs. Robert F., 29a Chestnut St., Boston Clark, Mrs. R. M., 82 Homer St., Newton Centre Clark, Miss Susie C, 15 Centre St., Cambridge Clark, W. B., Dalton, Mass. Clarke, Eliot C, S3 State, Rm. 817, Boston Clarke, Henry Martyn, 50 State St., Boston Clarke, Miss L. F.. 91 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Qarke, Dr. W. C, Knickerbocker Rd. Tenafly, N.J. Clay, Charles L., North Dana, Mass. Cleaves, Miss Helen E., 41 Bullard St., Dorchester CleaTer, C. Leroy, 362 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Cleland, H. P., Williamstown, Mass. Clerk, A. G., Rockport, Mass. Oeveland, L. Miss, Woods Edge Rd., W. Med. Clifford, Miss Margaret A., Brockton, Mass. Clifton Literary Club, Mrs. Chas. Bradford, Treas. 22 Jerome St., Dorchester, Mass. Coats, E. M., 5 Market St., Springfield, Mass. Cobb, Miss Annie W., 20 Amsden St., Arlington C«bb, Miss Barbara K., 7 Euston St., Brookline Cobb, Charles K., SO Congress St., Boston Cobb, Edward H., 7 Avon St., Cambridge Cobb, Mrs. George T., 9 Washington Ave., Camb. Cobb, Mrs. Henry E., 126 Bellevue St., Newton C«bb, Mrs. John S., 9 Mercer Circle, Cambridge Cobb, Stanley, Adams St.. Milton, Mass. Codman, C. R., 123 High St., Brookline Codman, James M., 362 Walnut St., Brookline Cogswell, Edward R., 67 Chester St., Newton Hlds. Colby, Mrs. J. F., 855 Centre St., Newton, Mass. Cole, Miss Ella M., Box 1192, Southbridge, Mass. Coleman, E. L., 42 The Fenway, Boston Colgate, Mrs. C. H., Jr., 16 Webster St., Rockland Collar, Wm. C, 63 Windsor Road, Waban, Mass. Collier, D. R., Gardner. Mass. Collins, Mrs. W. H., 107 Pinckney St. Collver, Mrs. Leon, 86 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Conant, Mrs. S. D.. 3 Grinnell St., Greenfield Coney, Miss Kate E.. 120 Bellevue St., W. Rox. Conner, Mrs. Blanche P., 58 Lynde St., Gardner Cook, Miss Ellen P., Allbright House, North'mptn Cook, Mrs. Mary L., Barre, Mass. Cooledge, Miss M. G.. 89 St. James Ave., Boston Coolidge, Baldwin, 410a Boylston St., Boston Coolidge, Mrs. David, Hotel Somerset, Boston Coolidge, Herbert, 77 Garfield St., Waterteiwn Coolidge. T. Jefferson. 64 Ames BIdg., Boston Cooper, Margt. W., 427 Washington St., Brighton Cooper, Mrs. W. E.. 79 Goffe St., Quincy, Mass. Copeland, Manton, Brunswick, Me. Corcoran, Miss S. C, 219 Newbury St., Boston Cordes, Mrs. William, Florence, Mass. Cotting, Charles E., 11 Pemberton Square, Boston Coulter, C. C, 316 Chestnut St., Clinton, Mass. Cousens, Mrs. J. A., 207 Suffolk Rd., Ch'stn't Hill Cox, C. M., Melrose Highlands, Mass. Crane, Z. Marshall, Dalton, Mass. Crapo, Wm. W. 6 Masonic Bldg., New Bedford Crehore, Miss Lucy C, Dedham, Mass. Crocker, Miss A. W., 10 Channing Place, Camb. Crocker, Miss Constance, Nichols Read, Cohasset Crocker, C. T., Fitchburg, Mass. Crocker, Mrs. M. C, Fitchburg, Mass. Crocker, Ralph, 92 State St., Boston Crocker, W. T., 143 E. 35th St., New York, N.Y. Crompton, George, Worcester, Mass. Crosby, Mrs. S. V. R., 95 Beacon St., Boston Cross, Prof. Chas. R., M.I.T., Boston Cummings, Mrs. C. A., 230 Clarendon St., Boston Cummings, Miss E. G., Kennard Road, Brookline Cunningham, Miss Hester, East Milton, Mass. Cunningham, Miss Hilda, East Milton, Mass. Currier, Mrs. B. W., Ocean St., Lynn, Mass. Curry, Haskell B., 60 Bay State Road, Boston Curry, S. S., 60 Bay State Road, Boston Curtis, Mrs. Allen, 191 Beacon St., Boston Curtis, Benjamin L., Northampton, Mass. Curtis, Mrs. C. P., 20 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Curtis, Mrs. Henry L., Mt. Vernon, Ohio Curtis, Mrs. John S., Beverly Farms, Mass. Curtis, Miss Penelope, 131 Bay State Road, Boston Gushing, Miss Fanny E., 54 Highland St., Camb. Gushing, Henry W., Hingham, Mass. Gushing, Joseph L., Box 885, Lowell, Mass. Gushing, Mrs. Livingstone, Auburndale, Mass. Gushing, Miss Margt. W., Box 122, Newburyport Gushing, Milton S., Fitchburg, Mass. Gushing, Miss S. P., 81 Newbury St., Boston Cushman, Miss Alice, 919 Pine St., Phila., Pa. Cushman, Miss Hattie F., Monson, Mass. Cushman, Rufus H., Monson, Mass. Cushman, S. L., 37 Harrison Ave., Taunton, Cushman, W. F., Hotel Charlesgate, Boston Cutler, Mrs. George C., Heath St., Brookline Cutler, Leo C, Heath St., Brookline Cutler, Mrs. Roger W., Charles River Vil., Mass. Cutler, Miss Sally A., Montrose St., Newton Cutler, Mrs. W. C, 117 Washington Ave., Chelsea Cutter, Mr. Frank B., IS State St., Boston Cutter, Mrs. G. W., 19 Adams Ave., Watertown Cutter, Dr. George W., Watertown, Mass. Dabney, Miss Ellen, 101 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Dabney, Miss F., 101 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Dabney, Herbert, Milton, Mass. Dabney, Miss O. F., 21 Harris St., Brookline Dabney, Miss Sarah, 101 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Daland, Mrs. T., 117 Fisher Ave., Brookline Dale, Mrs. Eben, 130 St. Mary's St., Boston Daly, Franklin P., 101 Tremont St., Boston Damon, Mrs. Russell H., Leominster, Mass. Dana, Dr. Harold W., 101 Centre St., Brookline Dana, Richard H., 113 Brattle St., Cambridge Dane, Mrs. F. S., Bennington Road, Lexington Daniell, Miss Emily A., 40 Crawford St., Boston Daniels, Nathan H., Bedford, Mass. Daniels, Nathan H., Jr., 84 State St., Boston Darling, Mrs. C. P., 73 Grove St., Auburndale Davenport, Dr. F. H., 390 Com'nwealth Ave. Bos. Davenport, Mary P., 45 Devon St., Chestnut Hill Davis, Alice P., 106 Forest Hills St., Jam. Plain Davis, Miss E. F., 8 Hale St., Beverly, Mass. Davis, Mrs. Joseph E., 154 Beacon St., Boston Davis, Miss Mary A., 9 Hoosac St., North Adams Davis, Mrs. Simon, 9 Abbotsford Rd., Brookline Davis, Z. B., New Bedford, Mass. Davol, Mrs. S. B., 4 Wellington Ter., Brookline Deane, Walter, 29 Brewster St., Cambridge, Mass. Dean, Josiah S., 60 State St., Boston Dearborn, Miss Sarah, Hotel Kempton, Boston deKoven, Miss Annie L., Mattapoisett, Mass. Deland, Mrs. Lorin F., 35 Newbury St., Boston Dennie, Miss Ellen M., 371 Harvard St., Camb. Dennison, Mrs. H. S., Framingham, Mass. De Normandie, Mrs. P. Y., Milton, Mass. 30 Massachusetts A u d uh o n Society De Normandie, Mrs. R. L., 357 Marlboro St., Bos. Despeau, Charles K., Grafton, Mass. Dewey, Mrs. Jane S., Great Barrington, Mass. Dewis, Dr. John W., 69 Newbury St., Boston Dewson, George B., 4 Hutchinson St., Milton, Dewson, Mrs. Maria F., 4 Hutchinson St., Milton Dexter, Franklin, Jr., 247 Marlboro St., Boston Dexter, Fred A., Orange, Mass. Dexter, W. E., 291 Marlborough St., Boston Dickerman, Mrs. Frank E. 47 Craigie St., Som. Dickinson, E. L., 13 Thorpe Ave., Holyoke, Mass. Dickson, Philip, Harvard, Mass. Dingman, H. M., Tenacre, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Dodge, Mrs. Carl W., 14 Farrington Ave. Allston Dodge, Frederic, Belmont, Mass. Dodge, Joseph A., Grafton, Mass. Dodge, Mrs. Rufus B., 10 Mass. Ave., Worcester Dodson, Jos. H., 705 Harrison Ave., Kankakee, III. Dolan, Edwin B., 624 South St., Holyoke, Mass. Dorchester Woman's Club, Mrs. Wright, 58 Centre St., Dorchester, Mass. Dorr, George B., 18 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Dougherty, Miss Rose A., 643 High St., Holyoke Douglass, Elizabeth P. 1663 Mass Ave., Camb. Dow, Miss Lena E., 13 Wyman St., Arlington Dow, Miss Lucia A., Milton, Mass. Dow, Mrs. Mary P., 19 Monadnock St., Dor. Draper, Thomas B., Canton, Mass. Draper, Mrs. Thomas B., Canton, Mass. Dresel, Miss Louisa L., 328 Beacon St., Boston Dudley, Mrs. Sarah H., Berlin, Mass. Dunbar, Mrs. James R., 43 Centre St., Brookline Dunham, Mrs. Eliz. M., 206 Windsor Rd., Waban Dunn, George A., 114 Pearl St., Gardner, Mass. Dunn, Mrs. S. F., 13 Greenwood St. Greenwood Durant, Mrs. Clark T., Great Barrington, Mass. Durant, Miss Henrietta, 4 Berkeley St., Lawrence Durfce, Miss Eliza C, 144 Prospect St., F. River Durrell, Albert H., 98 Central Ave., Milton, Dutton, Miss Julia M., 350 Otis St., W. Newton Dwinnell, C. H., c/o First Nat. Bank, Boston Dyer, Thomas, 141 Forest Park Ave., Springfield Dyer, Mrs. T., 141 Forest Pk. Ave., Springfield Eager, Mrs. O. G., 49 Seminary Ave., Auburndale Eager, Miss M. F., 49 Seminary Ave., Aburndale Eastman, Alfred C, 82 Sudbury St., Boston Eastman, C. W., Amherst, Mass. Eastman, E. Frank, P. O. Box 1665, Boston Eastman, Miss Mary, Northampton, Mass. Eastman, S. A., Milford, Mass. Eaton, Miss Julia F., 59 Vernon St.. Brookline Eaton, Mrs. Walter P., Stockbridge, Mass. Edgell, F. v., 53 State St., Boston Edgerly, Joseph G., Fitchburg, Mass. Edmands, Miss Anne P., 12 Corey Rd., Brookline Edmond, Miss Thedora A., Box 55, Brookline Edwards, Miss P. P., 36 Longwood Ave., B'kline Eisemann, Mrs. L., Swampscott, Mass. Elder, Francis A., Winchester, Mass. Elliott, George B., 209 Washington St., Boston Elliott, Hereford N., 64 Central St., Lowell Ellis, Mrs. F. H., Framingham, Mass. Ellsworth, Miss E. R., 325 Salisbury St.. Wor. Eisner Carl F., 359 Boylston St., Boston Ely, Mrs. Frederic C, Florence, Mass. Emerson, Elliot S., Cambridge, Mass. Emerson, Mrs. G. D., 162 Walnut St., Brookline Emerson, John D., Methuen, Mass. Emerson, Miss M. E., 395 Broadway, Cambridge Emmons, Mrs. A. B., 2nd, Dover, Mass. Endicott, Mrs. Henry, 131 Marlborough St., Bos. Endicott, Mrs. W. C, 163 Marlboro St., Boston Estens, Mrs. F. H., 147 Park St., Gardner, Mass. Eustis, Miss, 1020 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. Eustis, Miss E. M., 1020 Beacon St., Brookline Eustis, Mrs. F. A., Readville, Mass. Eustis, Mrs. F. I., 17 Highland St., Cambridge Eustis, Mrs. H. H., 29 West Cedar St., Boston Evans, David L., 311 W. Housatonic St., P'tsfield Evans, Mrs. Glendower, 12 Otis Place, Boston Everett, J. E., 1538 Beacon St., Waban, Mass. Ewart, Miss Alice M., 85 Bartlett St., Winter Hill Fabens, Miss C. H., 14 Washington Sq., M'ble'h'd Fales, L. F., Walpole, Mass. Fall, Mrs. Charles G., 393 Marlborough St., Bos. ; Farnam, Prof. H. W., Stockbridge, Mass. { Farnsworth, Miss Alice, Hotel Vendome, Boston ;; Farnsworth, Charles H., 27 Commercial St., Bos. J Farnsworth, Mrs. E. M., 23 Philbrick Rd. B'kline ' Farnsworth, Mrs. Wm., Westfield St., Dedham * Farrar, Edward P., South Lincoln, Mass. '•'_ Farren, Merritt A., 14 Beacon St., Boston Faucon, Miss C. W., Milton, Mass. Faulhake, Miss F., 362 Longwood Ave., B'kline Faxon, Allan H., Southbridge, Mass. Fay, Mrs. H. H., 418 Beacon St., Boston Fay, S. Prescott, 169 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Fearing, Miss Mary P., 333 Beacon St., Boston Feely, J. J., 95 Milk St., Boston Fenn, Mrs. Ella M., Stockbridge, Mass. Fenno, Edward N., 87 Milk St., Boston Fenno, Mrs. John A., 318 Walnut St., Newtonville Ferguson, Mrs. M. C, 102 Thorndike St.. B'kline Fernald, Miss Ethel, S3 Youle St., Melrose, Mass. Field, Douglas G., Riverside Press, Cambridge Field, Dr. Geo. W., Sharon, Mass. Firth, Miss I., Reservoir Ave., Chestnut Hill Fish, Miss M. R., 201 Buckminster Rd., Brookline Fisher, Miss Annie E.. 5 Joy St., Boston Fisher, Miss E. C, 68 Dudley St., Roxbury Fisher, Frederic A., 92 Hollywood Ave., Lowell Fiske, Miss Cornelia B., 45 Langdon St., Camb. Fiske, Miss Ella A., 70 Walnut St., Clinton, Mass. Fiske, Miss G. H., 216 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Fiske, Mrs. J. N., 121 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Fiske, Mrs. Sarah D., 102 Hancock St., Maiden Fitch, Miss C. T., 383 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Fitch, Mrs. L. H., 148 Summer St., Newton Cen. Fitzgerald, Desmond, 410 Washington St., B'kline Fitzgerald, Hon. J. F., 39 Welles Ave., Dor. Cen. Fitzhenry, Miss M. M., 28 Monument St. W. Med. Fitzpatrick, Miss Adele, Centre Ave., Belmont Fitzgerald, T. M., 104 Kingston St., Boston Fitzpatrick, Wm. J., 73 Gardner Road, Brookline Flagg, Dr. Elisha, 190 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Fletcher, Miss H. B., 40 St. Paul St., Brookline Flint, Miss C. L., 290 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Flint, Mrs. Edw. A., 98 Pinckney St., Boston Floyd, James A., 58 Stratford St., W. Roxbury Floyd, Mrs. W. T., 40 East 83rd St., New York Flynt, Lyman C, Monson, Mass. Folsom, Miss Amy, 88 Marlboro St., Boston Folsom, Miss Anna S., 114 Marlborough St., Bos. Folsom, Mrs. C. F., 114 Marlboro St., Boston Folsom, Mrs. Norton, 55 Garden St., Cambridge Foote, Arthur, 81 Green St., Brookline Foote, Francis D., 42 Florentine Gar., Springfield Foote, Mrs. H. W., 22 Highland St., Cambridge Foote, Miss Katherine, 81 Green St., Brookline Forbes, Mrs. J. M. 107 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Forbes, Waldo E., Sears Bldg., Boston Forbush, Edward H., 9 Church St., Westboro Ford, Miss Ellen S., 81 Clark St., Belmont, Mass. Ford, Mrs. Helen C, 354 Essex St., Whitman Forehand, Miss A. J., 40 Berkeley St., Boston Fosdick, Charles, 128 Pritchard St., Fitchburg Fosdick, Miss M. W., 128 Pritchard St., F'chburg Foss, Edwin C, 200 Boylston St., Boston Foss, Mrs. Eugene N., 11 Revere St., Jam. Plain Foster, Mrs. C. H. W., Charles River Vijlage Foster, Francis C, 15 Oxford St., Cambridge Foster, George B., 15 Vernon St., Brookline Fowler, George C, 245 North Main St., Orange Fowler, Miss Mary P., 35 Burroughs St., J. Plain Fowler, T. H., Holyoke, Mass. Fraser, Charles E. K., South Natick, Mass. Freeman, Miss Harriet E., 37 Union Park, Boston Freeman, Mrs. H. M., 258 Mt. Vernon St., West Newton, Mass. French, Albert M., Scotland Road, Reading French, D. C, Stockbridge, Mass. French, Hollis, 94 Mt. Vernon St., Boston French, Mrs. Mina V., 203 Strathcona Hall, Cam. Friedman, Miss Elsie, 206 Bay State Road, Bos. Friedman, Sophia M., 206 Bay State Road, Bos. Sustaining Members 31 Fries, Miss Anna M., 2 Carlisle St., Roxbury Frost, Mrs. Henrietta W., 39 Pico Ave., W'throp Frost, Miss R. May, 1 Forest Place, Roxbury Frothingham, Mrs. Edw. 476 Beacon St., Boston Frothingham, Miss Elinor, Lenox, Mass. Frothingham, Julia W., The Charlesgate, Boston Frothingham, Langdon, 336 Bay State Road, Bos. Frye, Mrs. G. H., "Fryecrest," North Grafton Frye, Robie G., Sharon, Mass. Fuller, Miss A., The Ludlow, Boston, Mass. Fuller, Miss E. W., 9 Mercer Circle, Cambridge Fuller, F. L., Wellesley Hills, Mass. Fuller, Mrs. Genevieve M., Dover, Mass. Fuller, Mrs. H. W., Sherborn, Mass. Flint, Miss E. H., 290 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Fuller, Mrs. Lucy D., 405 Beacon St., Boston Fuller, Miss Sarah P., 125 Prospect St., Camb. Fuller, Mrs. Susan B., 24 Vernon St., W. M'df'd Fuller, Mrs. W. A., Clinton, Mass. Fuller, Wm. A., Clinton, Mass. Furber, George P., Concord, Mass. Gage, M. A., 520 Bridge St., Lowell, Mass. Gage, Mrs. T. Hovey, 39 West St., Worcester Galacar, Mrs. F. R., 74 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Gale, Justin E., Weston, Mass. Gallagher, Mrs. J. M., 23 Gleason St., Dorchester Gallup, A. T., 247 Oak St., Holyoke, Mass. Gammon, I. P., Jr., 106 Marion St., Brookline Gardiner, Mrs. R. H., 322 Beacon St., Boston The Gardner Woman's Club, Gardner, Mass. Garrett, Mrs. F. W., 7 Tanager St., Arl'gt'n Hgts. Gates, Miss Beula L., Longmeadow, Mass. Gary, F. E. H., 10 Tremont St., Boston Gay, Mrs. F. L., Fisher Ave., Brookline, Mass. Gay, Richard L., 6 Beacon St., Boston Geddes, Mrs. James, Jr., 20 Fairmount St. B'kline Gerry, Mrs. M. J. H., 2 Everett St. Jam. Plain Gibbens. Mrs. E. P., 107 Irving St., Cambridge Gibbs, Miss Grace L., Lee, Mass. Gibbs, Herbert R., 55 Judkins St., Newtonville Gibbs, Mrs. T. K., 180 Gibbs Ave., Newport, R. I. Gilbert, Edward H., Ware, Mass. Gilbert, J. H. G., Ware, Mass. Gill. A. H., M.I.T., Boston Gill, Mrs. George F., 411 Marlboro St., Boston Gilligan, Mrs. Peter, 78 Hutchings St., Roxbury Gilman, Rev. Bradley, Canton, Mass. Gilman, Miss Ethel S., 9 Baldwin St., Newton Gilman, W. F., Tilton, N. H. Gleason, Mrs. A. D., Gleasondale, Mass. Gloag, Ralph W., 30 Pemberton Sq., Boston Glover, Miss Mary Earle, West Newton, Mass. Glover, Mrs. M. E., 141 Prince St., W. Newton Goddard, Mrs. Frank W., Princeton, Mass. Goddard, Miss Julia, Warren St., Brookline Goldthwait, Dr. Joel E., Hyde Park, Mass. Goldthwait, Mrs. Joel E., Hyde Park, Mass. Goldthwait, Miss Margt. R., Hyde Park, Mass. Goodale, Mrs. G. L., S Berkeley St., Cambridge Goode, Mrs. Frank B., Sharon, Mass. Goodwin, Mrs. C. C, 16 Merriam St., Lexington Goodwin, Mrs. N. M., 424 Walnut St., Brookline Gorst, Charles C, 2 Arnold Circle, Cambridge Goss, Dr. Arthur V., Drawer D., Taunton, Mass. Goss, Miss Ida L. B., Drawer D., Taunton, Mass. Gould, Miss L. A., 78 Cypress St., Brookline Gowdy, Robert, Westfield, Mass. Granger, Miss Helen, 47 Prentiss St., Cambridge Grant, Mrs. Robert, 211 Bay State Road, Boston Graves, Miss Alice, 244 Marlboro St., Boston Graves, Miss H. F., 119 Washington St., Dor. Graves, Mrs. T. C, 28 Concord St., Marlboro Gray, Mrs. Horace, Sunset Cottage, Glendale, O. Gray, Miss Annie F., 22 Woodbine St., Roxbury Gray, Miss Isa E., 5 Chestnut St., Boston Gray, Mrs. Morris, 133 Marlborough St., Boston Gray, Morris, 133 Marlborough St., Boston Green, Edward W., 15 Congress St., Boston Greene, Miss C. S., 8 Forest St., No. Cambridge Greenlaw, J. M., Beverly, Mass. Greenough, M. S., 7 Gloucester St., Boston Gregory, Raymond J., Princeton, Mass. Grew, Mrs. E. W., 238 Marlborough St., Boston Grew, E. W., 238 Marlborough St., Boston Grew, Miss Ruth D., 238 Marlboro St., Boston Griggs, Miss H. F., 555 Washington St., B'kline Grover, Gregory W., Canton, Mass. Grozier, Mrs. E. A., 168 Brattle St., Cambridge Guild, Mrs. C. E., Readville, Mass. Guild, Henry R., 102 Beacon St., Boston Guild, Mrs. S. E., 102 Beacon St., Boston Guild, Miss Sarah L., 26 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Hadcock, Miss B. L., 47 Marion St., Brookline Harris, Arthur E., 1127 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Harris, Miss F. K., 74 Buckingham St., Camb. Harwood, Miss Blanche G., Natick, Mass. Haskell, H. S., 340 Main St., Worcester Hastings, Frank W., 107 Water St., Boston Hatfield, Mrs. Hugh K., 362 Marlboro St., Boston Hathaway, Edwin D., 1702 Beacon St., Brookline Hathaway, Mrs. Horatio, New Bedford, Mass. Hathaway, Nathan C, New Bedford, Mass. Haughton, Mrs. M. Graeme, Prides Crossing Haven, Dr. H. C, Stockbridge, Mass. Hawks, E. J. D., Boyer Bldg, Detroit, Mich. Hawes, Mrs. Oliver S., 362 Rock St., Fall River Hayden, Miss G. E., 390 Com'wealth Ave., Boston Hayes, Mrs. Mary H., 121 High St., Medford Haynes, Miss Edith M., 6 Beacon St., Boston Hayward, T. M., Lee, Mass. Hayward, Mrs. Walter E., Vine Hill, Ipswich Hazen, Miss Emily H., 236 Auburn St., A'b'ndale Hadley, Miss G. S., Quincy Man. Sch., Wollaston Hager, Geo. W., R.F.D. No. 3, c/o A. R. Gar- field, Peterboro, N. H. Hagar, Jos. A., 79 Washington Pk., Newtonville Hale, Richard A., Lawrence, Mass. Hall, Albert H., 16 Gray St., Cambridge, Mass. Hall, Arthur N. Dunstable, Mass. Hall, John S., 1485 Harwich St., Quincy, Mass. Hall, Miss Mabel W., 216 Erie St., Cambridge Hall, Miss Minna B., 156 Ivy St., Brookline Hall, Mrs. R. W., 133 Church St., Bethlehem, Pa. Hallett, William R., 60 India St.. Boston Hallowell, Miss C. B., 51 Mystic St., W. Medf'd Hamlin, Mrs. Charles S., 2 Raleigh St., Boston Hamlin, Mrs. Edward, 619 Boylston St., B'kline Hammond, Miss Ellen, 25 Brewster St., Camb. Hanks, Arthur R., 31 Chestnut St., Needham Hanna, Mrs. Mary E., Leicester, Mass. Hannah Adams Club, Mrs. Etta C. Tuttle, Treas., Medfield, Mass. Hapenny, Miss L. E. 81 Russell St., Charlestown Harding, Mrs. Benj. F., 124 Canton Ave., Milton Hardy, John D., Wellesley Hills, Mass. Hardy, Miss Susan W., 445 Beacon St., Boston Harrington, Amasa, 9 Sanborn St., Winchester Harrington, Mrs. A., 9 Sanborn St., Winchester Harrington, Mrs. F. B., 201 Beacon St., Boston Heald, Mrs. E. B., Pepperell, Mass. Heard, Mrs. John, Jr., 439 Marlboro St., Boston Heath, J. A., Box 1860, Boston Heath, Nathaniel, Box 1860, Boston Hedges, Mrs. Anna M., 1569 Beacon St., B'kline Hemenway, Miss Mary L., 40 Central St., Som. Hemeon, Mrs. F. C, 9 Standish St., Dorchester Hennessy, James T., Wareham, Mass. Henry, Charles S., Westboro, Mass. Hewett, Miss M. E., 4810 Chicago St., Omaha, Nebr. Hewitt, J. M. O., 120 Tremont St., Boston Hidden, Miss H. F., 33 Concord Ave., Cambridge Hidden, Miss Julia, 104 Chestnut St., Boston Hidden, Miss Mary B., 33 Concord Ave., Camb. Hidden, W. T., 135 Main St., Fitchburg, Mass. Higginson, Mrs. F. L., Jr., 215 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Hight, Miss Mildred, Marlboro, Mass. Hildreth, Miss Ellen E., 6 Linnaean St., Camb. Hildreth, Mrs. F. B., Northboro, Mass. Hildreth, Miss Gladys G., 6 Linnaean St., C^mb. Hildreth, Mrs. Mary G., 6 Linnaean St., Camb. Hill, Mrs. Frank, 497 Columbia Rd., Dorchester Hill, Mrs. L. C, 333 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Hill, Mrs. Wm. H., 50 Congress St., Boston Hills, Mrs. E. A., 363 Beacon St., Boston 82 Massachusetts Audubon Society Hills, J. Edward, 29 Longfellow Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass. Hills, Warren G., 34 Seaverns Ave. Jamaica Plain Hinckley, Henry H., 50 W. Hill Ave., Mel. High. Hittinger, Mrs. Jacob, 216 Common St., Belmont Hobbs, Miss Addie B., 68 E. Dane St., Beverly Hockley, Mrs. Thomas, Hotel Vendome, Boston Hockmeyer, Mrs. O., 170 Hollywood Ave., Lowell Hodgdon, Mrs. A. H. Dedham, Mass. Hoffiman, Mrs. Bernhard, Stockbridge, Mass. Hoffman, Henry B., Stockbridge, Mass. Holland, Charles P., 183 Main St., Brockton Holmes, Mrs. Edw. J., 296 Beacon St., Boston Holmes, Edw. J., 296 Beacon St., Boston Holmes, Miss K. W., 161 W. 61st St., New York, N.Y. Holmes, Miss Mary L., Box 5, Rochester, Mass. Holt, Mrs. N. W. C, 8 Hurlburt St., Cambridge Homan, Robert F., 8 Pierce St., Marblehead Homans, Mrs. John, 164 Beacon St., Boston Homans, Miss Kath. A. 164 Beacon St., Boston Homans, Miss Marian J., 164 Beacon St., Boston Hood, D. T., Brookline, Mass. Hooker, Miss Sarah H., The Bristol, Boston Hooper, Miss M. G., 367 Beacon St., Boston Hooper, Mrs. Roger F., 403 Marlboro St., Boston Hooper, Roger F., 403 Marlboro St., Boston Hoopes, Miss Isabel, Newburyport, Mass. Hoopes, Mrs. W. L., Newburyport, Mass. Hopekirk, Mme. Helen, 169 Walnut St., B'kline Hopkins, Miss F. S., 17 Brainerd Ave., Gt. Bar- rington, Mass. Hopkins, Mrs. S. F., 17 Brainerd Ave., Gt. Bar- rington, Mass. Horr, Mrs. Ella L., 12 State St., Worcester Horsford, Miss Kath., 27 Craigie St., Cambridge Hosmer, Charles A., Billerica, Mass. Hosmer, Miss P. L., 264 W. Main St., Orange Hough, Charles G., 100 Common St., Belmont Houghton, Miss B. L., 117 Pleasant St., N. Adams Houghton, Miss E. H., 58 Gardner St., Camb. Houghton, Miss F. G., 497 Brush Hill Road, Hyde Park, Mass. Houghton, Mrs. Fred O., 133 Beacon St., Boston Houston, Miss A. B., 78 Lexington Ave., H'yoke Houston, T. A., Northampton, Mass. Howard, Alfred H., 15 State St., Boston Howard, Miss Carrie E., 40 St. Paul St., B'kline Howard, Miss Edith F., West Bridgewater, Mass. Howe, Mrs. A. M., 3 Fayerweather St., Camb. Howe, A. S., Jr., 278 Waverly Ave., Newton Howe, Mrs. George D., 265 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Howe, Miss H. A., 53 Linden St., Brookline Howe, Louis P., 235 Pleasant St., Marlboro Howe, Mrs. Louis P., 235 Pleasant St., Marlboro Howe, Mrs. A. M. DeW., 26 Brimmer St., Bos. Howes, Mrs. Osborne, Jr., Woodland Rd., Chest- nut Hill. Mass. Howland, Miss C. T., 46 Eliot St., Jam. Plain Howland, Llewellyn, 45 Batterymarch St., Boston Howland, Miss Sarah, 45 Morgan St., N. Bedford Hoyt, Edwin, Stockbridge, Mass. Hoyt, Walter H., Lowell. Mass. Hubbard, Mrs. C. T., Church Green, Taunton Hubbard, Mrs. Eliot, 206 Beacon St., Boston Hubbard, Miss Mary G., 79 Bay State Rd., Bos. Hughes, Miss A. F., 915 Beacon St., Boston Humphrey, George W., 82 Court St., Dedham Humphrey, Seth K., 640 Exchange Bldg.. Boston Hunnewell, Mrs. James F., 289 Beacon St., Bos. Hunt, Miss Belle, 17 Gloucester St.. Boston Hunt, Miss Susan L., 91 Linden St.. Allston Hunt, Mrs. W. D,. 30 Warren St., Brookline Hunter, Mrs. W. H., 11 Sycamore St., Somerville Hunting, Miss Clara C, Quincy, Mass. Huntington, Miss S. L.. 35 Chestnut St., Salem Hurd, Miss Elizabeth, 11 Hereford St., Boston Hurlbut, Mrs. B. S., 32 Quincy St., Cambridge Hussey, Miss Emily M., 1 Irving St., N. Bedford Hussey, Miss Mary E., 1093 Dwight St., Holyoke Huston, Miss K. W., 71 Montello Rd., Jam. Plain Hutchins, Mrs. E. W., 166 Beacon St., Boston Hutchins, F. W., Lee, Mass. Hutchinson, Horace T., 7 Everett St., Salem Hyde, Miss Alice C, 380 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Hyde, Miss Ellen, Framingham, Mass. Hyde, Mrs. Henry D., 380 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Hyslop, Mrs. John, 426 Washington St., Abing- ton, Mass. Ingalls, J. Fred, 76 Baker St., Lynn, Mass. Ingell, Miss M. A., Readville, Mass. Ireson, Mrs. S. E., 219 Newbury St., Boston Jackson, Mrs. Delbert L., 362 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Jackson, Mrs. L. F. 25 W. Baltimore St., Lyan Jackson, William H., 40 Chestnut St., Bostoa James, George Abbott, 52 Beacon St., Boston James, Miss Jane E., 416 Marlborough St., Bos. James, Miss Margt. M., 95 Irving St., Cambridge James, Waiter H., Mass. Inst. Tech., Boston James, Mrs. Wm., 95 Irving St., Cambridge James, William, 95 Irving St., Cambridge Jaques, Mrs. H. P., Lenox, Mass. Jeffries, W. A., 11 Pemberton Sq., Boston Jenkins, Miss Elizabeth N., Smith Agricultural School, Northampton, Mass. Jenney, Mrs. A. S., Weston, Mass. Jenney, Charles B., Watuppa Reservation, Fall River, Mass. Jenney, Hon. Charles F., Hyde Park, Mass. Jenney, Mrs. Edwin C, 9 Perkins Ave., Hyde Park, Mass. Jewell, Mrs. Frank M., 72 Gardner St., Allston Jobst, Miss, Northampton, Mass. Johanna Aspinwall Chapter, D. A. R., Miss Emma Burt, Regent, 28 Centre St., Brookline Johnson, Mrs. A. L., 177 S. Main St., Orange Johnson, Alvin P., E. Boston Sav. Bk., E. Boston Johnson, Mrs. Arthur S., 253 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Johnson, Edward C, 123 Marlborough St., Boston Johnson, Mrs. Ella P.. 16/ Newbury St., Boston Johnson, Dr. F. W., 167 Newbury St., Boston Johnson, Mrs. W. K., 7 Com'nwealth Ave., Bos. JoHffe, Mrs. T. H., 68 Windsor Rd., Brookline Jones, Mrs. Abby B., Kingston, Mass. Jones, Boyd B., 53 State St., Boston Jones, Mrs. Charles E., 282 Buckminster Road, Brookline, Mass. Jones, Daniel F., 195 Beacon St., Boston Jones, Frederick H., 71 Central St., Andover Jones, Mrs. J. Edwin, 86 Rockview St., J. Plaia Jones, Miss Marie F., 73 Perry St., Brookline Jones, Paul S., Stoughton, Mass. Jones, Walter T., Hingham, Mass. Jorgenson, Miss E., 219 Washington St., Bostoa Toslin, Miss Ada L., 517 Beacon St., Boston Toslin, Mrs. E. P., 81 Bay State Road, Boston Joy, Charles R., 350 Danforth St., Portland, Me. Judd, Mrs. Mary, Lee, Mass. Jump, Mrs. Edwin R., 97 Oakleigh Rd., Newton Kaan, Mrs. George W., 162 Aspinwall Ave., B'line Kaffenburgh, Mrs. Isaac, 5 Naples Rd., Brookline Kaiser, Benjamin A., 18 India Sq., Boston Kay, James Murray, Houghton MiflSin Co., 4 Park St., Boston, Mass. Kehew, Mrs. Mary M., 29a Chestnut St., Boston Keith, H. J., 1470 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. Keith, Mrs. H. J., 1470 Beacon St., Brookline Keith, Miss Ina A., 6 Beacon St., Boston Kellogg, Fred. T., 120 Maple St., Springfield Kelley, H. W., 3 Willow St., Winchester, Mass. Kelly, L. E., 26 Linden .St., Holyoke, Mass. Kendall, Miss Alice C, Holden, Mass. Kendall, Mrs. James H., Holden, Mass. Kennedy, Charles L. S., North Easton, Mass. Kennedy, E. H., North Easton, Mass. Kennedy, Mrs. Harris, Readville, Mass. Kennedy, Dr. Harris, Readville, Mass. Kenway, Mrs. Percy N. 11 Hollis St., Newton Kepner, Mrs. C. D., 43 Grove Hill Ave., New- tonville, Mass. Kepner, Kenneth E., 43 Grove Hill Ave., New- tonville, Mass. Sustaining Members 33 Kidder, A. A. Winchester, Mass. Kilburn, Miss Helen M., 35 Spruce St., Dedham Kilham, Miss F. R., 8 Thorndike St., Beverly Kimball, Benjamin, 66 Chestnut St., Boston Kimball, Mrs. Fred N., 37 Atlantic Ave., Swampscott, Mass. Kimball, Miss H. P., 350 Otis St., W. Newton Kimball, James D., Orange, Mass. Kimball, Miss Maude P., Ellington, Conn. King, Miss Grace W., 179 Comonwealth Ave, Boston, Mass. Kingman, Martin, Brookline, Mass. Kinnicutt, Mrs. L. P., 50 Elm St., Worcester Kirt, Miss Lucy A., 49 Cedar St., Worcester Knight, E. Amos, 439 Boylston St., Boston Knight, Miss Maybelle E., 13 Putnam St., Rox. Knowles, Mrs. Annie S., 402 County St., N. Bed. Kollock, Edward D., 201 Devonshire St., Boston Kohler, E. C, 18 Taylor St., Holyoke, Mass. La Croix, Joseph, 20 Everett St., Southbridge Ladd, Mrs. Alex. H., Centre St., Milton, Mass. Ladd, Mrs. Geo. S., Sturbridge, Mass. Ladies' Physiological Institute, Mrs. Eva M. Barker, Treas., 11 Moultrie St., Dor. Centre Lamb, Miss Augusta T., 138 High St., Brookline Lamb, H. A., 27 Kilby St., Boston Lamb, Miss Rose, 129 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Lamphier, Miss Annie J., Taconic Hall, N. Adams Lamson, Clement R., 28 State St., Boston Lamson, George H. O., Weston, Mass. Lancaster, Miss H. A., 803 Shawmut Ave., Rox. Lancaster, H. G., Mt. Dorma, Amherst, Mass. Lane, Miss A. E., 27 Bowdoin St., Springfield Lane, Frederic C, 22 Arlington St., Cambridge Lane, Mrs. John P., Richmond, Mass. Lane, Miss K. A. 27 Bowdoin St., Springfield Lane, Miss Margt., 19 Oxford St., Cambridge Lane, O. H., 418 Beulah St., Whitman, Mass. Lane, William C, 19 Oxford St., Cambridge Lang, Mrs. B. J., 8 Brimmer St., Boston Lang, Miss Margt. R., 8 Brimmer St., Boston Langmaid, Miss Bertha, 13 Garrison Rd., B'kline Larkin, Miss B. M., 16 North St., Georgetown Lasell, Miss L. W., 34 Jackson St., Cliftondale Latimer, Mrs. G. D., 100 Longwood Ave., B'kline Lauriat, Miss H. L., 1120 Beacon St., Brookline Lawrence, Miss Caroline T., Stockbridge, Mass. Lawrence, Mrs. F. W., Mountfort St., Longwood Lawrence, John S., 89 Franklin St., Boston Lawrence, Miss M., 177 Bay State Rd., Boston Lawrence, Mrs. Martha P., Groton, Mass. Lawrence, Miss S., 122 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Lawrence, Rev. W. A., 65 Thorndike St., Lawr. Lawrence, Rt. Rev. William, 122 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Lawrence, Mrs. William, 122 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Laws, Mrs. M. E., Bedford, Mass. Lawton, Mrs. Herbert, Presidents Hill, Quincy Leach, Mrs. Lottie A., Walpole, Mass. Leach, Orlando, Avon, Mass. Leach, W. B., 89 Naples Road, Brookline Leahy, P. L., Medfield, Mass. Leake, Miss Caroline R., Williamstown, Mass. Leavitt, Amos T., 59 Commercial St., Boston Leavitt, Miss Margt. N., 33 Gardner St., Camb. Lee, Francis W., 408 Hammond St., Chestnut H. Lee, G. W., c/o Stone & Webster, Boston Lee, Mrs. W. W., Northampton, Mass. Leets, Theodore W., Longmeadow, Mass. Leland, E. F., 50 Prescott St., Brookline Leland, Lester, 101 Milk St., Boston LeMoyne, Mrs. McPherson, 31 Mass Ave., Bos. Leonard, Miss Eliza B., 116 Federal St., Gr'nfield Leonard, Mrs. Emily L., 24 Grant St., Chicopee Leonard, Henry P. Osterville, Mass. Lesh, Mrs. John H., 955 Beacon St., Newton Cen. Lesh, John H., 955 Beacon St., Newton Centre Lesure, Mrs. G. J., Orange, Mass. Levey, Mrs. Wm. M., 78 Cypress St., Brookline Lewis, Mrs. Crosby, Westminster, Mass. Lewis, Mrs. Herman E., 120 Grove St., Haverhill Lewis, Miss Hortense W., 1862 Beacon St., B'line Lewis, Miss Marian, Framingham, Mass. Lexington Chapter, D. A. R., Mrs. George T. Bradbury, 24 VVoodland Road, Maiden Libbey, Mrs. C. H. Howe, Milton, Mass. Lincoln, Mrs. A. L., 61 Walnut Place, Brookline Lincoln, A. L., 126 State St., Boston Lincoln, Miss Agnes W., Lincoln Rd., Medford Lincoln, Miss Ellen, Hingham Centre, Mass. Liuder, Mrs. George, 58 Welch Road, Brookline Lindsley, Mrs. H., 44 West Cedar St., Boston Little, Mrs. Walter S., IS Plymouth St., B'water Lock, Edwin A., 311 Beacon St., Boston Lodge, Richard W., Redlands, Cal. Lombard, Miss A. S., 921 Beacon St., Boston Lombard, Miss Emeline H., 921 Beacon St., Bos. Lombard, Miss M. E., 921 Beacon St., Boston Longfellow, Miss A. M., 105 Brattle St., Camb. Longfellow, A. W., 12 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Loomis, Ormond E., SO Bromfield St., Boston Lord, Miss Carol V., 305 Beacon St., Boston Loring, Augustus P., 40 State St., Boston Loring, Miss A. P., 37 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Loring, Miss Charlotte, Westwood, Mass. Loring, David, 35 Federal St., Boston Loring, Lindsley, 40 Central Bt., Boston Loring, Miss Marion B., 914 High St., Dedham Loring, Miss M. P., 37 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Lothrop, Dr. Oliver A., 101 Beacon St., Boston Loughlin, Mrs. P. H., Westminster, Mass. Lounsbury, Miss Mabelle E., 66 Montclair Ave., Roslindale, Mass. Lovell, Miss Mary Eleanor, Wayland, Mass. Lovett, Mrs. A. S., 59 Windsor Road, Brookline Lowe, Mrs. Frank E., 24 Brattle St., Worcester Lowell, Mrs. Francis C. 159 Beacon St., Boston Lowell, Frederick E., Concord, Mass. Lowell, Mrs. Frederick E., Concord, Mass. Lowell, Mrs. G. G., 151 Beacon St., Boston Lowell, Mrs. James Arnold, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Lowell, James Arnold, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Lowell, Miss Lucy, The Ludlow, Boston Luce, Mrs. Francis P., Vineyard Haven, Mass. Lull, George E., 106 Central St., Lowell, Mass. Lund, Edward G., 529 Beacon St., Boston Lund, F. B., M.D., 527 Beacon St., Boston Lund, George W., 529 Beacon St., Boston Lunt, Fred E., Box 5282, Boston, Mass. Luther, Mrs. G. E., 64 Canton Ave., Milton, Lyon, Mrs. W. H., 353 Walnut St., Brookline McAllister, F. D., M.D., Bay State Bldg., Lawr. McAlpine, W. T., 18 Abbott St., Lawrence McBurney, Henry, Stockbridge, Mass. McCarthy, N. F., 112 Arch St., Boston McClellan, Miss A., 146 Mt. Vernon St., Boston McArthur, Mrs. T. A., Lynn, Mass. McCorkindale, William, Holyoke, Mass. McCullock, Lawrence, 10 Radford Lane, Ashmont McC. Gamble, Miss Eleanor A., Wellesley Col- lege, Wellesley, Mass. McGrail, Arthur J., 54 Beeching St., Worcestar McKey, Joseph, 22 Stearns Road, Brookline McLane, Frederick A., Holyoke, Mass. McQuesten, Mrs. G. E., 14 Still St., Brookline McSkimmon, Mrs. W. B., 36 Kilsyth Rd., B'kline Macausland, Earle R., 803 Lincoln St., Evanston, 111. MacConnell, Miss M., R.F.D., Box 240, P'ym'th MacGregor, Miss E. T., 75 _ Park St., Brooklime MacKintire, G. W., 340 Main St., Worcester Mackay, George H., 126 State St., Boston Mackintosh, R. B., Peabody, Mass. Macurda, Mrs. William E., Bedford, Mass. Mandell, Ralph M., 15 Dey St., New York, N.Y, Mann, Miss Elizabeth E., Plymouth Inn, North- ampton, Mass. Mann, Mrs. E. A., Plymouth Inn, Northampton Mann, F. W., 100 Centre St., Milford, Mass. Mann, Miss J. Ardelle, Box 170, Millville, Mass. Mann, Miss Mary E., IS Westville St., Dor. Cen. Manning, E. L., 35 Congress St., Boston Manning, Warren H., 1101 Tremont Bldg., Bos. Mansfield, Mrs. Bessie R., Brookdale Farm, West- borough, Mass. March, Mrs. Clement, 621 Main St.. Wakefield Marcy, Mrs. Henry O., Jr., 140 Sargent St., Newton, Mass. 34 Massachusetts Audubon Society Marden, Oscar A., Stoughton, Mass. Marden, Wendell P., 22/ State House, Boston Marden, Mrs. VV. P., 227 State House, Boston Mareau, Mrs. Emma E., 151 Brattle St., Camb. Mareau, Miss Mary, 57 Payson Road, Belmont Marsh, Edward, Dedham, Mass. Marshall, Mrs. E. O., New Salem, Mass. Marshall, Mrs. John K., 10 Beals St., Brookline Marshall, Perry, New Salem, Mass. Martin, Miss Eleanor P., Milton, Mass. Martin, Miss Sarah E., 12 Prospect St., Florence Mathews, Edward F., 721 Main St., Worcester May, Miss Alice, 1105 Mass Ave., Cambridge May, Miss Adeline, Leicester, Mass. May, Miss Adelina, 226 Ocean St., Lynn, Mass. May, Miss Elizabeth G., Leicester, Mass. May, William T., Newton Centre, Mass. Mayer, Richard, 200 Summer St., Boston Mead, J. Roberts, Great Barrington, Mass. Mead, Mrs. Julian A., 115 Jewett St., Newton Means, Chas. J., 29 Marlboro St., Boston Mears, Mrs. W. B., 13 Grenw'd St., Greenwood Meikle, Ernest G., 4923 Kimbuck Ave., Chicago, 111. Mellen, Mrs. Geo. H., 291 Lake Ave., Newton Highlands Mellen, Geo. H., 291 Lake Ave., Newton High- lands Meredith, Mrs. A. A. H., Milton, Mass. Merrick, Miss Edith, 106 Bartlett Ave., Dalton line ,, ,, Merrill, Miss Annetta S., Pepperell, Mass. Merrill, Albert B., 282 Buckminster Rd., Brook- Merritt, Mrs. Mary E., 33 Cypress PI., Brookline Merritt, Miss E. R., 33 Cypress PL, Brookline Metcalf, Miss Alice, 86 Monument St., Concord Michael, Arthur, Newton Center, Mass. Mifflin, Geo. H., 4 Park St., Boston Miles, Mrs. Henry A., Hingham, Mass. Miller, Mrs. H. H., 121 Walpole St., Norwood Miller, H. H., 121 Walpole St., Norwood Millet, J. B., 146 Brattle St., Cambridge Milligan, Miss Effie F. C, 46 Fairfield St., Cam- bridge Milligan, Lester O., Dalton, Mass. Minot, Mrs. Charles S., Readville, Mass. Minot, Mrs. Wayland M., 761 Washington St., Brookline Mitchell, Miss Elizabeth M., 45 Clark Rd., Lowell Mitchell, Mrs. J. G., 196 Gardner Rd., Brookline Mixter, Dr. Charles G., 247 Beacon St., Boston Mixter, Mrs. S. J., 180 Marlboro St., Boston Moore, John Crosby Brown, 21 Kirkland St., Cam- Moore, Mrs. Edw. C, 21 Kirkland St., Cambridge bridge Moore, T. A., Lisbon, Maine Morley, Arthur, 18 Minerva St., Swampscott Morrill, The Misses, 11 Arlington St., Boston Morrison, Alva, 35 Congress St., Boston Morse, Mrs. Asa M., Union, N. H. Morse, Prof. Edward S.. Box 268, Salem, Mass. Morse, Miss Ellen C, 60 Burroughs St., Jamaica Plain , ,, Morse, Miss Ellen H., Falmouth, Mass. Morse, Miss Fanny H., 16 Fairfield St., Boston Morse, Miss M. K., 309 Highland Ave., Wollaston Morse, Miss Mabel S., 6 Wellington Court, W. Roxbury Morss, Mrs. C. A., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Morss, Chas. A., 201 Devonshire St., Boston Morss, Noel, 115 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Morton, Mrs. M. E., 186 Highland Ave., New- tonville. Morton, O. A., Amherst, Mass. Moseley, Charles W., Newburyport, Mass. Moseley, F. S., Newburyport, Mass. Moseley, Miss Mary, 437 Hancock St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Moss, Mrs. George, 175 Chandler St.. Worcester Mossman, Miss Mary, 1616 Blue Hill Ave., Mat- tapan, Mass. Motte, Mrs. M. I., Concord, Mass. Mower, Earl A., 16 Nahant PI., Lynn, Mass. Mundy, Miss Flora B., Millis, Mass. Munro, Miss M. H., 541 Com'onwealth Ave., Bos. Munroe, James P., 79 Summer St., Boston Murchie, Guy, 46 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Murdock, Miss Maria, 64 Church St., Winchester Murphy, T. L., Burdett Ave., Hingham, Mass. Nash, Mrs. Frank K., 7 Colchester St., Brookline Nash, Henry F., Greenfield, Mass. Nash, Mrs. M. W., 19 Elm St., Framingham Cen. Nazro, Mrs. Arthur P., 25 Greenough Ave. J. P, Nazro, Mrs. F. H., Riverbank Court, Cambridge Neal, Mrs. James A., Rolleston Road, Clifton Nelson, Mrs. Henry W., Marshfield Hills, Mass.' Nelson, Thomas L., 314 Main St., Worcester Nesmith, Miss Mary, Andover St., Lowell, Mass. Newell, Mrs. Mary W., "Battle Lawn," Concord Newton, Dr. A. L., Northfield, Mass. The Newton Centre Bird Club, Wm. May, Secy., 35 Gray Cliff Road, Newton Ctr., Mass. Newton Centre Woman's Club, Helen R. Smith, Treas., 130 Lake Ave., Newton Ctr., Mass. Newton, James H., 399 Northampton St., Holyoke Nichols, Mrs. Mary W., Hathorne, Mass. Niles, Mrs. L. V., Wellesley Farms, Mass. Nims, Mrs. Lucius, 5 Union St., Greenfield, Mass. Norcross, Mrs. Wm. C, Wellesley Hills, Mass. Northend, Mrs. E. H., 20 Berkeley St., Cambridge Norton, Miss C. A., 17 Meredith Ave., Newton H. Norton, Miss Grace, 59 Kirkland St., Cambridge Norwell, James, 44 State St., Boston Nowell, Mrs. G. M., 13 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Noyes, Miss Annie A., 98 Pinckney St., Boston Nutter, Miss Angeline P., 152 Corey St., W. Rox. Oaks, Fred L., Eastern Ave., Framingham, Mass. O'Brien, Miss Mary E., 47 Gardner St., Allston O'Donnell, T. B., Marble Bldg., Holyoke, Mass. Ogdon, Mrs. D. B., 1869 Beacon St., Brookline Ogdon, David B., 1869 Beacon St., Brookline Old & New Club, Mrs. Annie L. Ball, Treas., 100 Maple St., Maiden, Mass. Oliver, Dr. Henry K., St. Botolph Club, Boston Oliver, Miss S. E. C, 200 Salem St., N. Andover Oliver, Mrs. Susan L., 27 Brimmer St., Boston Ordway, Miss Eliza. D., 20 Myrtle St.^ Winch'st'r Osborne, Arthur A., 58 Washington St., Peabody Osborn, Mrs. J. B., 17 Keswick St., Boston Osgood, Miss Adeline, Lexington, Mass. Otis, James, Hyannis Port, Mass. Otis, Miss Rebecca H., 69 High Rock St., Lynn Packard, Winthrop, Canton, Mass. Packard, Mrs. Winthrop, Canton, Mass. Page, Dr. Charles E., 120 Tremont St., Boston Page, D. L., 636 Rogers St., Lowell, Mass. Page, Henry R., 1501 Beacon St., Brookline Page, M. S., Lake Ave., Melrose, Mass. Paige, John E., Southbridge, Mass. Paine, Miss Helen, 21 Brimmer St., Boston Palmer, Howard, New London, Conn. Palmer, Miss Sarah E., 483 Beacon St., Boston Parker, Miss Bertha, Clinton, Mass. Parker, Mrs. Eldora F., R.F.D. No. 1, Wareham Parker, Mrs. Grace S., Stockbridge, Mass. Parker, Mrs. Henrietta M., Brookfield, Mass. Parker, Miss Mary, Bedford, Mass. Parker, Robert C, Box 167, Westfield, Mass. Parker, Walter A., 184 Winchester St., Brookline Parker, Mrs. Wm. L., 312 Dartmouth St., Boston Parkhurst, Miss E. A., 22 Highland Ave., Somer. Parkman, Miss M. R., 692 Pleasant St., Belmont Parsons, Miss Charlotte, 398 Beacon St., Boston Parsons, Miss Katharine, 54 Gardner St., Camb. Pastene, Charles A., 56 Lyndhurst St., Dorchester Patch, Miss Emerette O., Lexington, Mass. Patch, Mrs. Frank W., Woodside Cot., F'm'gham Paul, Miss A. M., 1334 Com'nwealth Ave., Allston Paul, Mrs. W. A., 157 Harvard St., Dorchester Payne, Miss Ellen, 259 Haverhill St., Lawrence Payson, Samuel C, 48 Beech Road, Brookline Paxson, Mrs. A. M., 317 Nesmith St., Lowell Peabody, Mrs. Endicott, Groton, Mass. Peabody, Miss Martha N., 200 Ivy St., Brookline Pearce, Miss H. J., 77 Montview St., W. Roxbury Pease, Mrs. Cora E., Murray Hill Road, Maiden Pease, Miss Harriet R., 7 Park St., Greenfield " Pecker, Miss Annie J., 160 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Penfield, Miss Annie S., 155 Charles St., Bos. Sustaining Members 35 Penniman, Miss Grace, 107 Gainsborough St., Bos. Percy, Mrs. Elinor B., 194 Aspinwall Ave., B'klinc Perkins, Mrs. Charles E., 223 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Perkins, Mrs. George H., 123 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Perkins, James H., 2nd, Westwood, Mass. Perkins, T. N., Jr., Westwood, Mass. Perkins, Mrs. T. N., Westwood, Mass. Perry, Miss Abby S., Framingham, Mass. Perry, Mrs. Caroline L., 238 Hemcnway St., Suite 16, Boston Perry, Philip E., 39 Clarke St., Lexington, Mass. Peters, G. G., 78 Kilby St., Boston Peters, James Lee, Walnut Ave., Jamaica Plain Peters, Mrs. W. Y., 143 Bay State Rd., Boston Pevear, Mrs. W. L., S5 Eastbourne Rd., Newton Centre Pfaffman, Mrs. Mabel A., 65 Goffe St., Quincy Phelps, Charles M., Holyoke, Mass. Phillips, Miss Anna G., Sharon, Mass. Phillips, A. v., 6 Roanoke Ave., Jamaica Plain Phillips, Miss Mary B., 10 Middlesex St., North Andover, Mass. Pickering, Miss Sarah W., 18 Broad St., Salem Pierce, Mrs. Dean, ISO Fisher Ave., Brookline Pierce, Miss Gertrude, 201 Mass. Ave., Lexington Pierce, J. Homer, 164 Federal St., Boston Pierce, Mrs. Lucy McG., 75 Park St., Brookline Pierce, Miss Marion G., 169 W. Newton St., Bos. Pitta, Dr. J., 57 Allen St., New Bedford, Mass. Platts, C. Arthur, 399 Salem St., Medford, Mass. Plummer, Thomas R., Dartmouth, Mass. Poole, Miss Grace L., 22 School St., Rockland Poole, Miss Linnie M., 114 W. Water St., Rock- land, Mass. Pope, Mrs. Albert A., 378 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Pope, Alexander, 1013 Beacon St., Brookline Porter, Mrs. Benjamin W., 8 Highland Ave., Greenfield, Mass. Porter, Miss Elizabeth B., 295 Beacon St., Boston Porter, Mrs. Fannie C. 129 Pleasant St., Arlington Potter, Henry S., Jr., Manhattan Market, Camb. Potter, Mrs. John B., 94 Pinckney St., Boston Potter, Mrs. Wm. H., 19 Braemore Rd., Boston Potts, Frank L., 143 Chestnut St., Holyoke, Mass. Powers, Mrs. Samuel L., Newton, Mass. Powers, Miss Sarah H., 13 Gates St., Worcester Pratt, George D wight, 120 Maple Ave., Springfield Pratt, Miss H. L., 376 Beacon St., Boston Pratt, Laban, 50 Congress St., Boston Pratt, Miss Sarah E., South Sudbury, Mass. Prentiss, William A., 207 Elm St., Holyoke Presbrey, P. E., Care First National Bank, Boston Prescott, Mrs. C. D., 52 Ash St., New Bedford Prescott, Miss Clara F., 189 High St., Lawrence Prescott, Miss Henrietta J., 249 Huron Ave., Cambridge Prescott, Mrs. Henry S., New Bedford, Mass. Priest, Alan R., Fitchburg, Mass. Preston, Mrs. L. Loring, Auburndale, Mass. Priest, Miss Annie, Gardner, Mass. Pritchard, W. H., North Adams, Mass. Proctor, Mrs. F. I., 397 Marlborough St., Boston Proctor, Dr. F. I., 397 Marlborough St., Boston Proctor, Mrs. Henry H., 282 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Prouty, Miss M. Estelle, 289 Main St., Milford Purdon, Miss Maria, Hyde Park, Mass. Putnam, Miss Clara A., 4 Avon St., Andover Putnam, Mrs. George, 191 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Putnam, Mrs. J. J., 106 Marlborough St., Boston Putnam, Dr. J. J., 106 Marlborough St., Boston Putnam, John P., Jr., The Charlesgate, Boston Putnam, Mrs. Lucy W., 63 Marlboro St., Boston Putnam, Mrs. Otis E., 25 Harvard St., Worcester Putnam, William E., 3rd, 91 Spooner Rd., Chest- nut Hill, Mass. Putney, Mr. and Mrs. W. K., Ashland, Mass. Quincy, Miss Grace W., Lancaster, Mass. Rackemann, Mrs. Felix, Readville, Mass. Ramsey, H. H., Orange, Mass. Rand, Mrs. Harry S., 1899 Mass. Ave., Camb. Rane, F. W., 6 Beacon St., Boston Rangers, The, Osborne, Mrs. F. D., Sec, Win- throp St., Winthrop, Mass. Raymond, Mrs. F. F., 523 Beacon St., Boston Raymond, Mrs. Henry E., The Charlesgate, Beacon St., Boston Rayner, A. W., 131 Lake Ave., Newton Centre Redfield, Miss EHsa W., 29 Everett St., Camb. Redfield, Miss Julia W., 290 South St., Pittsfiell Reed, Miss Annie M., Harvard, Mass. Reed, Chester A., 401 Pemberton Bldj;., Boston Reed, Miss Ida B., 352 Beacon St., Boston Reed, S. Marshall, 50 Congress St., Boston Reggio, Miss E., 33i Commonwealth .Vve., Boston Reiche, Parry, 12 Gray St., Arlington, Mass. Renstrom, Henrik, 14 Beach Rd., Squantum Reynolds, Miss A. T., 411 Marlborough St., Bos. Rice, Austin, Wakefield, Mass. Rice, H. L., Dover, Mass. Rice, William C, 24 Moreland St., Roxbury, Mass Rich, Mrs. Isaac Baker, 390 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Rich, Mrs. Nellie K., 11 Boylston Rd., Boston Richards, Miss Alice A., 98 Colchester St., B'klinc Richards, John B., Fall River, Mass. Richards, Miss Winifred C, Fall River, Mass. Richardson, Mrs. Chas. F., 122 Central St., Gardner Gardner, Mass. Richardson, H. H., Cottage St., Brookline Richardson, H. S., Concord, Mass. Richardson, Mrs. John K., Wellesley Hills, Mass. Richardson, Miss Mary E., 134 Firglade, Spring- field, Mass. Richardson, Miss S. F., 64 Bay State Rd.. Boston Richardson, W. K., 84 State St., Boston Richardson, Mrs. W. N., Charles River Village Richardson, W. S., 95 Milk St., Boston Ricketson, Miss Anna, 10 Anthony St., New Bed- ford, Mass. Ricketson, Walton, 10 Anthony St., New Bedford Rickets, W. L., Monson, Mass. Rider, C. W., Holyoke, Mass. Riggs, Mrs. Alice M. B., Stockbridge, Mass. Riley, Mrs. Franklin G., 9 Corey Rd., Brookline Ripley, A. L., Andover, Mass. Ripley, Charles, 173 Harvard St., Dorchester Ripley, Mrs. James W., 13 Harnden Rd., Maiden Ritchie, John, Jr., 4 Whitwell Terrace, Dorchester Robb, Russell, 147 Milk St., Boston Robbins, Mrs. Arthur G., 42 Oak St., Belmont Robbins, Arthur G., 42 Oak St., Belmont, Mass. Robbins, Charles A., Onset. Mass. Robbins, E. A., 246 Devonshire St., Boston Robbins, Miss Emma R., West llousatonic St., Pittsfield, Mass. Robbins, The Misses, Mass. Ave., Arlington Robbins, Mrs. F. A., 222 Huntington Ave., Boston Robbins, Frank M., Onset, Mass. Robbins, M. E., West Housatonic St., Pittsfield Robbins, Topaz C, 48 Englewood Ave., Brookline Robbins, Trieste P., 48 Englewood Ave., Brookline Roberts, Miss Frances W., 20 Craigie St., Camb. Roberts, Miss Mary, Hotel Brunswick, Boston Robinson, Miss Elizabeth, 238 N. Main St., Middleboro, Mass. Robinson, William A., Vineyard Haven, Mass. Robson, John W., 214 Madison St., Maiden, Mass. Rockwood, Mrs. George I., 340 May St., Worcester Rogers, Miss A. P., 5 Joy St., Boston Rogers, Mrs. Howard L., 34 Spooner Rd., Chest- nut Hill, Mass. Rogers, Miss Martha, 118 Draper St., Dorchester Rogers, Mrs. Robert K., Dover, Mass. Rogers, S. S., 171 Pleasant St., Holyoke Roper, Miss Julia, Hubbardston, Mass. Rose, Mrs. Arthur, 571 Beach St., Roslindale Rose, Milton S., Harwich, Mass. Ross, Mrs. J. L., Ipswich, Mass. Rothery, Miss Agnes E., Wellesley, Mass. Rothwell, James E., 153 Sewall Ave., Brookline Rothwell, Mrs. W. H., 333 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Round, Mrs. Wm. M. F., Nantucket, Mass. Rowell, F. B., 14 Linwood Rd., Lynn, Mass. Ruberg, Lyman E., Greenfield, Mass. Rugbie, Miss Maud R., 208 Long Hill, Springfield Russell, Mrs. J. B., Belmont, Mass. Russell, John L., Ipswich, Mass. Russell, Mrs. John E., Box 103, Leicester, Mass. Russell, Miss Kate S., Castine, Me. 36 Massachusetts Audubon Society Russell, Mrs. Richard S., 119 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Russell, Mrs. Thomas, 3 Gloucester St., Boston Rust, Fred W., 60 India St., Boston Rutledge, L. V., 35 Trowbridge St., Cambridge Sabine, Dr. G. K., 30 Irving St., Brookline Sage, Charles D., North Brookfield, Mass. Salloway, Mrs. James, Bedford, Mass. Saltonstall, Mrs. R. M., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Sampson, Miss L. S., 229 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Sanborn, Mrs. H. C, 1 Brittan Lane, Worcester Sanborn, Miss Helen J., 383 Broadway, Winter Hill, Mass. Sanborii, Mrs. John W., 166 Washington St., Quincy Sanderson, Mrs. C. H. K., 11 Union St., Greenfield Saunders, Miss Annie G., 73 Prospect St., Lawrence Saunders, Charles G., 95 Milk St., Boston Saunders, Miss Mary L,. 73 Prospect St., Lawrence Saunders, Miss Mary T., 28 Pleasant St., Salem Saville, Mrs. H. M., 57 Shepard St., Cambridge Sawyer, Alfred N., 237 W. Newton St., Boston Sawyer, A. J., Hudson, Mass. Sawyer, F. E., Holyoke, Mass. Sawyer, Miss Mary Esther, North St., Walpole. Sayles, Miss Deborah W., 263 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Sayles, Mrs. Robert W., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Scaife, Mrs. L. L., 148 Central Ave., Milton Schlesinger, Mrs. Mary B., Warren St., Brookline Schlesinger, W. A., Becket, Mass. Schneider, Mrs. Elizabeth, Methuen, Mass. Schrafft, W. E., 160 Washington St., North, Bos. Schwarz, G. Frederick, Brookline, Mass. Scott, F. A., 25 Cutter St., Waverly, Mass. Scott, Mrs. H. D., Wellesley, Mass. Scott, Harry F., 45 Yale St., Holyoke Scott, Henry R., 6 Charles River Square, Boston Scull, Mrs. Gideon, 131 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Seabury, Joseph S., Wayland, Mass. Sears, Nathan F., 70 Kilby St., Boston Sears, Mrs. F. I., Webster, Mass. Seaverns, Daniel, 45 Everett St., Newton Centre Sedgwick, Alexander, Stockbridge, Mass. Seeger, Miss H. F., 50 Eliot St., Jamaica Plain Seegee, Mrs. Mary R., 228 Winthrop Ave., Revere Seelye, L. Clark, Northampton, Mass. Sewall, Mrs. J. B., 1501 Beacon St., Brookline Sewall, Jotham B., Brandon Hall, Brookline Sewall, Miss Pauline, 22 Fellsway, West, Winter Hill, Mass. Seymour, Miss Jennie H., Stockbridge, Mass. Seymour, Wm. O., Stockbridge, Mass. Shackford, Miss Martha Hale, Wellesley, Mass. Sharpe, Miss Helen, 54 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Sharp, Dallas L., Hingham, Mass. Shaw, Miss Eleanor, Milton, Mass. Shaw, Francis, Wayland, Mass. Shaw, Mrs. George R., Concord, Mass. Shaw, Henry S., Jr., Dover, Mass. Shaw, Dr. J. Holbrook, Plymouth, Mass. Shaw, Miss Mary E., 44 Front St., Weymouth Shaw, Mrs. Robert G., 151 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Shaw, Robert G., 2nd, Boulder Farm, Oak Hill, Newton Centre, Mass. Shaw, Mrs. S. P., Jr., 31 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. Shaw, Mrs. T. M., Concord, Mass. Sheldon, Miss Emma W., Great Barrington, Mass. Sheldon, Miss Laura C, 215 Bartlett Ave., Pitts- field, Mass. Shephard, Miss Emily B., 124 Rawson Rd., B'kline Shepard, Miss Maude E., 135 Pembroke St., Bos. Shepard, Mrs. Otis, 124 Rawson Rd., Brookline Shepard, Mrs. W. S., Ponkapoag, Mass. Sherman, John P. R., Box 2172. Boston Sherwin, Miss Isabel F., River St., Jamaica Plain Sherwood, Miss Katherine F., Milton, Mass. Sherwood, Miss Margaret P., 7 Midland Rd., Wellesley, Mass. Shillaber, Mrs. Helen C, South Framingham Shorey, Guy L., Gorham, N. H. Shores, Dr. H. T., 177 Elm St., Northampton Shores, Mrs. H. T., 177 Elm St., Northampton Shove, F. A., 205 Mountain Ave., Maiden Shumway, Franklin P., 25 Bellevue Rd., Melrose Shumway, W. H., 3 Half Moon St., Dorchester Shurtleff, Mrs. Asahel M., 9 West Cedar St., Bos. Sibley, Mrs. Rufus A., 930 East Ave., Roches- ter, N. Y. Silsbee, Mrs. Alice M., 47 Main St., Watertown Silsbee, Miss Elizabeth W., 35 Washington Sq., Salem, Mass. Silsbee, Thomas, 115 Marlborough St., BostoB Simes, William, 46 Chestnut St., Boston Simmons, Miss Elizabeth R., 5 Phillips PI., Camb. Simmons, Miss Marie W., 15 Simmons Ave., Brockton Simonds, Mrs. S. W., 130 Somerset St., Belmont Simons, Wm. C, 381 Main St., Springfield Simpson, Mrs. George W., 8 Gloucester St., Bos. Simpson, Miss Helen, Hotel Vendome, Boston Sinclair, H. R., 9 Moreland St., Worcester Sinclair, John E., Station A, Worcester Sitgreaves, Miss Mary, 377 Beacon St., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Skillings, David N., Winchester, Mass. Slade, Mrs. Elisha, Somerset, Mass. Slater, W. A., 1731 I St., Washington, D. C. Smith, Miss Addie L., 30 Highlawn Ave., Lawrence Smith, Miss Susan E., and Miss Alice Durant, 7 Appleton St., Cambridge Smith, C. Fayette, Holyoke, Mass. Smith, Edgar J., 551 Tremont St., Boston Smith, Miss Elvina Bush, 29 Murdock St., Brighton Smith, Miss Emma J., 5 Stow St., Concord, Mass. Smith, Mrs. Fannie B., 40 Sagamore St., Lynn Smith, Mrs. Frank Bulkeley, 34 Elm St., Wor- cester, Mass. Smith, Mrs. Frank C, Jr., 47 West St., Worcester Smith, Miss Grace M., Florence, Mass. Smith, Mrs. Howard F., 115 Prospect St., Gloucester Smith, H. Monmouth, Nutrition Laboratory, Fen- way, Boston Smith, Miss Josephine A., 27 Bowdoin St., Sprin^r- field, Mass. Smith, Mrs. Joseph Lindon, 93 Mt. Vernon St., Bos. Smith, J. Foster, Drawer N, Salem, Mass. Smith, Miss Lelia A., 2a Park St., Boston Smith, Miss Mabel Adams, Newton, Mass. Smith, M. N., 52 Summer St., Boston Smith, R. F., 65 Central St., Andover, Mass. Snell, Sabra C, Amherst, Mass. Snelling, Miss Mary F., Dedham, Mass. Slocum, Miss Anna D., Pond St., Jamaica Plain Small, Miss Cora, Northborough, Mass. Small, Edward L., North Truro, Mass. Southard, Charles B., Belmont, Mass. Spalter, Mis. F. B., Lock Box 105, Winchendon Spalding, Samuel H., Hingham, Mass. Spaulding, George E., Peabody, Mass. Spellman, Henry M., Jr., 48 Brewster St., Camb. Spence, Mrs. B. W., Newton Centre, Mass. Spencer, Mrs. A. M., Orange, Mass. Spencer, Mr. and Mrs. Henry T., Holyoke, Mass. Sperry, Mrs. N. D., 1090 Beacon St., Brookline Spinney, B. F., 270 Ocean St., Lynn, Mass. Spinney, Mrs. Mary A., 16 Park Drive, Brookline Sprague, Thomas L., Hingham, Mass. Spring, Chester C, Newton Lower Falls, Mass. Spurr, Rev George B., Hingham, Mass. Stackpole, Miss Roxanna, The Ludlow, Boston Stanfield, Miss Eleanor, Truro, Nova Scotia Stapleton, R. A., 211 High St., Holyoke, Mass. Stearns, H. B., 950 High St., Dedham, Mass. Stebbins, Miss Annie C, Crescent Ave., Springfield Stedman, Miss Mabel, 27 Irving St., Brookline Stcese, Mrs. Edward, 105 Gardner Rd., Brookline Stetson, Frank O., 39 Wesley St., Newton Stetson, Mrs. Frederick D., 42 Grove St., New Bedford, Mass. Stetson, Miss Marion, 1470 Beacon St., Brookline Stevens, Joseph W., Greenfield, Mass. Stevens, Miss Lena M., 23 St. Stephens St., Bos. Stevens, Mrs. O. H., 32 Pleasant St., Marlboro Stevens, R. C, 7 Bennington Rd., Lexington Stevens, Miss Sara E. 31 Linnet St., W. Roxbury Stevens, Mrs. S. R., Bicknell St., Marlboro Stevenson, Miss Frances G., 94 Upland Rd., B'kline Stevenson, Mrs. Robert H., 357 Beacon St., Boa. Stewart, Mrs. Cecil, 451 Beacon St., Boston Sustaining Members 37 Stewart, Mrs. Philip B., 1228 Wood Ave., Colorado Springs, Colo. Stickney, Miss Bertha M., 20 St. Stephen St., Bos. Stiles, Mrs. James A., Highland St., Gardner Stoddard, Miss Antoinette, 63 Benedict Ave., Tarrytown, N. Y. Stone, Miss Ellen K., 225 Grove St., Auburndale Stone, Mrs. F., 407 Beacon St., Boston Stone, Mrs. F. H.. 25 Arnold St., New Bedford Stone, Mrs. F. W.. 178 Bellevue St., Newton Stone, Dr. Lincoln R., 131 Vernon St., Newton Stone, Mrs. R., 365 Marlboro St., Boston Stone, Mrs. R. B., 796 Centre St., Jamaica Plain Stone, Mrs. William, 194 Clarendon St., Boston Storer, Miss E. W., 51 Garden St., Cambridge Storer, Mrs. John H., 286 Beacon St., Boston Storrow, Mrs. E. C, Milton St., Readville, Mass. Storrow, Mrs. J. J., 417 Beacon St., Boston Stout, Mrs. F. D., 4847 Ellis Ave., Chicago, 111. Stratton, Solomon P., 351 Beacon St., Boston Sturgis, John H., 154 Brattle St., Cambridge Sturgis, S. W., Groton, Mass. Sturtevant, Royal B., 1063 Wilmington St., Springfield, Mass. Summis, Miss Louise E., Quincy Mansion School, Wollaston, Mass. Supple, Richard T., Middleboro, Mass. Suter, Mrs. C. R., 116 Warren St., Brookline Suter, Mrs. J. W., The Puritan, Boston Swain, Miss Anna G., Nantucket, Mass. Swain, George F., 435 Marlboro St., Boston Swain, Wm. N., 101 Tremont St., Boston Swann, Mrs. A. W., 124 E. 61st St., New York Swasey, E. R., Southampton, Mass. Swett, John Allen, Jr., Greenwood Block, Farm- ington. Me. Sweet, Frank H., Reading, Mass. Swift, Mrs. Sarah K., 104 School St., Belmont. Sylvester, Edmund L., 31 Beacon St., Boston Sylvester, Mrs. Herbert F., 43 Bowers St., New- tonville, Mass. Sylvester, Miss Ruthella M., 1905 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. Symonds, Miss Lucy Harris, 76 Gorham Ave., Brookline, Mass. Taber, Miss Gertrude S., 390 C'nwealth Ave., Bos. Tapley, Henry F., Box 3256, Boston Tappan, Miss Mary S., 29 Edge Hill Rd., B'kline Tappan, Mrs. Robert M., Charles River Village Tarbell, A. P., 31 Brimmer St., Boston Tenney, Sanborn G., Williamstown, Mass. Tetlow, Miss Frances H., 58 Irving St., Brookline Thacher, Louis B., Box 3308, Boston Thacher, Miss Mary DeWolf, 69 Alleghany St., Roxbury, Mass. Thaxter, Roland, 7 Scott St., Cambridge Thayer, Miss Cassandana, 136 Crescent St., Quincy Thayer, Charles M., 340 Main St., Worcester Thayer, Mrs. Edward D., 39 Elm St., Worcester Thayer, Miss Ethel R., Hingham Centre, Mass. Thayer, Mrs. S. Van Rensselar, The Fenway, Bos. Thompson, Miss Ellen M. A., 793 Norfolk St., Mattapan, Mass. Thompson, Mrs. Lillian Dyer, 71 Dana St., Camb. Thomson, John W., Pittsfield, Mass. Thorndike, Albert, 19 Congress St., Boston Thorndike, J. S., 147 Main St., Brockton Thorndike, Richard K., Millis, Mass. Thornton, Miss M. C, Magnolia, Mass. Threshie, Mrs. N. F., 753 Boylston St., Brookline Thurston, Miss Mary D., Leicester, Mass. Tilton, Miss A. E., 45 Highland St., Cambridge Tolman, Miss Harriet S., 195 H'tington Ave., Bos. Tomlinson, Irving C, 201 Devonshire St., Boston Toppan, R. W., 31 Milk St., Boston Torrey, Mrs. Belle M., 52 Elm St., Worcester Tower, Miss Ellen M., 4 Pelham Rd., Lexington Tower, Mrs. Kate Denig, 9 Newbury St., Boston Towne, Edward S., 216 Pine St., Holyoke, Mass. Towne, Mrs. Eliz., Box 496, Holyoke, Mass. Townsend, Dr. Charles W., 76 Marlboro St., Bos. Townsend, Newell Colby, 248 Buckminster Rd., Brookline, Mass. Trafford, B. W., Care First National Bank, Bos. Travers, Miss Carrie, 44 Kendall St., Gardner Tripp, Mrs. P. E., 389 Rock St., Fall River, Mass. Trussell, F. B., Hamilton, Mass. Tucker, Charles H., Northampton, Mass. Tucker, Miss C. S., 105 E. Housatonic St., Pittsfield Tucker, Mrs. Fred H., 206 Church St., Newton Tucker, F. H., 206 Church St., Newton Tucker, Harold W., 37 Judkins St., Newtonville Tucker, Miss Margaret, Newton, Mass. Tucker, William F., 86 Franklin St., Worcester Tuckerman, Frederick, Amherst, Mass. Tuckerman, Leverett S., 9 Hereford St., Boston Tufts, Mrs. J. A., Exeter, N. H. Tufts, Miss M. A., 10 Summit Ave., Somerville Turner, Miss Harriet I., 41 Harvard St., Worcester Turner, Miss Mabel E., 116 Maple St., Milton Tyler, John M., Amherst, Mass. Tyndale, Mrs. Susanne, 67 Milk St., Boston Tyndale, Theodore H., 67 Milk St., Boston Tyngsboro Bird Club, Tyngsboro, Mass. Underwood, W. L., Belmont, Mass. Upham, Miss Suan, 379 Marlborough St., Boston Valentine, Miss Ellen, 75 Austin St., Newtonville Van Huyck, John M., Lee, Mass. Van Norden, E., 100 Magazine St., Roxbury Van Trump, L. C, Lee, Mass. Van Trump, Mrs. L. C, Lee, Mass. Vaughan, Mrs. B., 57 Garden St., Cambridge Vialle, Charles A., Hotel Brunswick, Boston Wadsworth, Miss E. B., 337 Highland Ave., West Newton, Mass. Wadsworth, Mrs. R. G., Codman Estate, West Roxbury, Mass. Wagner, Miss E. K., 25 Marion St., Dedham Wainwright, Mrs. Frances C, Adams St., Milton Waite, C. H., Holyoke, Mass. Waite, Miss Emma Forbes, 8 Trowbridge Rd., Worcester, Mass. Waite, Mrs. Mary C, 19 Pearl St., Medford Walker, Miss Edith F., New Bedford, Mass. Walker, Miss Helen, Milton Hill House, Milton Walker, James E., Walnut St., Milford, Mass. Walker, Mrs. J. G., 371 Commonweath Ave., Bos. Walker, Miss Martha S., 637 West St., Dedham Ward, Miss Annie N., 307 Marlborough St., Bos. Ward, Mrs. Harold, The Lilacs, Bay Rd., Amherst Ware, Mrs. Arthur L., Framingham, Mass. Ware, Mrs. Charles E., Box 426, Fitchburg, Mass. Ware, Mrs. C. P., 52 Allerton St., Brookline Ware, Miss Harriet, 290 Adams St., Milton, Mass. Ware, Miss Mary L., 41 Brimmer St., Boston Ware, William Rotch, East Milton, Mass. Warner, Miss Annie L., 9 Summer St., Salem Warner, Edward P., Concord, Mass. Warner, Mrs. Estelle T., 386 Washington St., Brookline, Mass. Warner, Mrs. H. E., South Lincoln, Mass. Warner, Mrs. Josephine, 75 W. Main St., Marlboro Warner, R. L., Concord, Mass. Warner, Mrs. R. L., Concord, Mass. Warren, Charles E., North Easton, Mass. Warren, Mrs. Charles E., North Easton, Mass. Warren, H. B., 18 Milton Rd., Brookline Warren, Nathan, Waltham, Mass. Warren, Mrs. Samuel D., 261 Marlboro St., Bos. Washburn, Miss Annie M., 153 Clinton St., New Bedford, Mass. Washburn, E. H., 174 Grampian Way, Dorchester Watson, Mrs. Ashley, 29 High St., Andover Watson, Mrs. R. C, Adams St., Milton, Mass. Webber, Mrs. W. G., Bedford, Mass. Webster, Mrs. A. G., 2 Walnut St., Boston Webster, Mrs. Edwin S., 307 Hammond St., Chestnut Hill, Mass. Weed, George M., 40 Central St., Boston Weeks, Miss Gertrude, 25 Peterboro St., Boston Wellington, Frank B., 354 Salem St., Medford Wellman, Gordon, 54 Beltran St., Maiden Wells, E. D., 346 Main St., Holyoke, Mass. Wentworth, Mrs. Charles F., 26 Carlton St., B'kline West, M. J., Millis, Mass. Weyburn, Mrs. Lyon, 113 Com'wealth Ave., Bos. 38 Massachusetts Audubon Society Weymouth, Miss Josephene B., 264 Boylston St., Boston Wheeler, Mrs., 141 Prince St., West Newton Wheeler, Mrs. Fred A., 9 Witherbee St., Marlboro Wheeler, Mrs. Harvey, Elm St., Concord, Mass. Wheeler, Mrs. Henry N., 55 Garden St., Camb. Wheelock, Miss Lucy, 134 Newbury St., Boston Wheelwright, George W., Glen Rd., Jamaica Plain Whitcomb, Mrs. Henry F., Long Lea Farm, Am- herst, Mass. Whitcomb, Wm. A. W., 45 Milk St., Boston White, Miss Amy, 89 Beacon St., Boston White, Charles E., Kennilworth, 111. White, Charlfes J., 259 Marlborough St., Boston White, E. N. W., Holyoke, Mass. White, Edw. W., 1190 Northampton St., Holyoke White, Francis Beach, St. Paul's School, Con- cord, N. H. White, Mrs. H. K., Brush Hill Rd., Hyde Park White, Mrs. Joseph H., 535 Boylston St., B'kline White, Miss Mary Abby, Concord, Mass. Whitechurch, Mrs. Margaret E., 1580 Beacon St., Brookline, Mass. Whiteside, Mrs. A., Jr., 233 Beacon St., Boston Whiteside, Mrs. A., 192 Beacon St., Boston Whitin, Mrs. G. M., Whittinsville, Mass. Whiting, Miss Anna M., 11 Washington St., New- ton, Mass. Whiting, Herbert F., Plymouth, Mass. Whiting, Mrs. S. B., U Ware St., Cambridge Whiting, Willard C, Y. M. C. A., Brockton Whitman, Edmund A., 23 Everett St., Cambridge Whitmarsh, J. W., 25 Port Norfolk St., Neponset Whitmarsh, Mrs. J. W., 25 Port Norfolk St., Neponset, Mass. Whitney, Mrs. Alfred H., Ashburnham, Mass. Whitney, Mrs. Eliz. L., 29 Pine St., Danvers Whitney, Miss Flora W., Newtonville, Mass. Whittemore, Mrs. F. S., 124 Pearl St., Gardner Whitten, Miss Helen F., 283 Birch St., Holyoke Whittier, Mrs. C. W., 794 Canton Ave., Milton Whitwell, Miss Natalie S., Milton, Mass. Wier, Mrs. Frederick N., 42 Eleventh St., Lowell Wigglesworth, Mrs. S. W., Manchester, Mass. Wilbur, Mrs. Frances M., 29 Bay State Rd., Bos. Wilbur, Miss Gladys E., Grafton, Mass. Wilbur, Miss Mabel, 1253 Beacon St., Boston Wilder, Miss E. F., 53 Fairmont Ave., Newton Wilder, Miss G. E., 17 Bloomfield, St., E. Lynn Wilkinson, Miss Eliz. S., 40 Winchester St., Brookline, Mass. Willard, C. F., The Robinson, Camden, N. J. Willard, Mrs. Ella M., Harvard, Mass. Willard, William M., Longmeadow, Mass. Willard, Z. A., 70 Kilby St., Boston Williams, Mrs. Arthur, Jr., 50 Edgehill Rd., Brookline, Mass. Williams, Miss E. F., 1101 Beacon St., Brookline Williams, Horace D. H., Box 3595, Boston Williams, Mrs. J. B., Channing PI., Cambridge Williams, Joseph S., 481 Summer St., Boston Williams, Moses, 126 State St., Boston Williams, Moses, Jr., 18 Tremont St., Boston Williams, Mrs. R. W., Medfield, Mass. Williams, Mrs. Sydney M., Wellesley, Mass. Williams, Stillman P., Box 3S9S, Boston Williams, Mrs. Wm. C, Dedham, Mass. Willis, Miss Clara L., 1615 Beacon St., Waban Willis, Mrs. H. D., 425 Tremont St., Taunton Williston, Miss Mary F., Belmont, Mass. Willson, Mrs. R. W., 64 Brattle St., Cambridge Wilson, Miss Alice C, Nahant, Mass. Wilson, Mrs. John, Greenfield, Mass. Wilson, William, 169 Walnut St., Brookline Wilson, Mrs. W. P., Cataumet, Mass. Winkley, Rev. Henry W., Danvers, Mass. Winkley, H. W., 11 Louisburg Square, Boston Winship, Rev. A. E., 6 Beacon St., Boston Winship, C. F., Wakefield, Mass. Winship, C. N., Wakefield, Mass. Winslow, L. M., 27 Nahant St., Lynn, Mass. Winsor, Mrs. Alfred, 204 Walnut St., Brookline Wise, Mrs. William O., 17 Brown Ave., St. Al- bans, Vt. Witherbee, Miss Elizabeth W., 101 Newton St., Marlboro, Mass. Witherbee, Mrs. F. B., 106 Berkeley St., West Newton, Mass. Witter, Mrs. H. M., Jr., 12 Montague St., Wor- Wood, Mrs. G. b., 256 Walnut St., Holyoke Wood, Mrs. J. T., 84 Church St., Ware, Mass. Wood, Mrs. S. A., Bedford, Mass. Woodbury, Ilione F. M., Care Old Colony Trust Co., Boston Woodbury, Mrs. John, 345 Marlborough St., Bos. Woodbury, John, 345 Marlborough St., Boston Woodbury, Miss Mary H., Springfield, Mass. Woodman, Cyrus, 55 Clitheroe St., Lowell Woodman, Dr. Walter, Hubbard Park, Cambridge Woodward, Frank E., 48 Abbott Rd., Wellesley Hills, Mass. Woodworth, D. S., M. D., 886 Main St., Fitchburg Woodworth, Miss Laura A., 886 Main St., Fitch- burg, Mass. Woolsey, Miss Alice, 126 E. 34th St., New York Worcester, Mrs. Alfred, 751 Main St., Waltham Worcester, Miss M. C, 16 Francis St., Cambridge Worcester, Wm. L., 5 Bryant St., Cambridge Wrenn, Philip W., Dedham, Mass. Wright, Alfred T., 108 Princeton St., Springfield Wright, Carleton Fay, Bayswater, Plymouth, Mass. Wright, Miss Clara F., South Sudbury, Mass. Wright, Horace W., 107 Pinckney St., Boston Wright, Miss Mary A., 42 Quincy St., Cambridge Wright, Mrs. Theodore F., 42 Quincy St., Camb. Wright, Mrs. Vernon A., 121 Clifton Ave., Minne- apolis, Minn. Wrisley, Miss Margaret, Belmont, Mass. Young, Charles L., 374 Main St., Springfield Young, Mrs. Thomas R., 50 Spooner Rd., Chest- nut Hill, Mass. Young, William H., 21 John St., Brookline Rare and Beautiful Winter Birds ARE NOW WITH US Many of These are Figured Life-Size, in Colors, in AUDUBON BIRD CHART Number Three Drawn by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES Bob-white Brown Creeper Goldfinch, winter plumage Prairie Horned Lark Northern Shrike Myrtle Warbler, winter plumage Pine Siskin Pine Grosbeak Purple Finch, female Redpoll male and female Red-breasted Nuthatch Red Crossbill Ruffed Grouse Slate-colored Junco. male and female Snow Bunting Tree Sparrow White-winged Crossbill, male and female The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life-size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolroojns, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $L50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1917. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is S1.50, but on and after February 15th they may be had by applying to this office at $1.00 each, postpaid. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. MARCH, 1917 Number 2. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (AppHcation for entry as second-class matter at the post-office at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. Massachusetts Audubon Society STATE LEGISLATION. SPRING SHOOTING. The usual annual attempt to get the State to authorize spring shooting has been duly made. This time it took the form of a bill which would permit, so far as the authority of the State was concerned, the shooting of ducks and geese until January sixteenth. The Federal law, of course, stops the shoot- ing at sunset on the thirty-first day of December. Hence such a law if passed by Massachusetts would at first seem to have no effect. But this is not altogether true. In the first place the offenders under the law as it now stands can be arrested by local officers. Under the proposed change offenders after January first could not be proceeded against by State author- ities, but only by those of the Federal Government. At present the Federal wardens are few and do not prosecute directly, but merely take evidence and forward it to the Department of Justice at Washington. Moreover, and here is the real meaning of the bill, such a law, passed by the State, would be used as a lever to pry open the regulations promulgated by the Biologi- cal Survey at Washington, next year, getting a longer open season by Federal statute. So swift and clever was the work done on this bill by its promotors, that it passed both the House and the Senate before we were able to stop it. So strong was the protest against this bill that it was held up for a con- siderable time before final enactment and an amendment added to it that nullified all its provisions, making it a farce, so far as any effect on the Massachusetts law goes. In spite of this it was placed before Governor McCall, and, to the astonishment of all who understood the real purport of the enactment, was signed, ATTEMPT TO An attempt to repeal the trespass law has also been REPEAL TRES- made. Section 14, of Chapter 92 of the revised laws. PASS LAW. the section quoted on the Audubon Society's "No Shooting" poster, reads as follows: "Whoever, for the purpose of shooting or trapping, enters upon land without the permission of the owner thereof, after such owner has conspicuously posted thereon notice that shooting or trapping thereon is prohibited, shall be punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars." The "Sportsmen's League," said to be an organization of hunters in the western part of the State, put in this bill and argued it before the Committee on Fisheries and Game on March 9th. The Audubon Society, the Board of Agriculture, the State Grange, and others expressed disap- proval of it and a desire to see the law stand as it is at present. It is not probable that the bill will be favorably reported or that it has any chance of passing. THE STARLING Some important matters in the way of constructive BILL. legislation concerning birds have come up this year also. Several of these were bills proposed by the State Board of Agriculture, on the recommendation of the State Ornithol- ogist. One was the removal of the Starling from the list of protected birds. Like the House Sparrow the Starling is an imported bird which has in- creased very rapidly of late years and threatens by its very numbers to be Monthly Bulletin 3 a nuisance. The bird is insectivorous, but it is also destructive to apples and other fruit. It monopolizes nesting boxes and drives better birds away. The bill passed and the Starling is no longer protected. That does not mean that everybody will get out and shoot Starlings. It merely means that in case the birds, by their numbers, become an intolerable nuisance in this State as they have already in some others, aggrieved householders may legally defend their homes against them. Starlings seem as canny and as well able to take care of themselves as crows. BIRD DAY. A law has been enacted fixing Arbor and Bird Day by authority of the State. Arbor and Bird Day is to be cele- brated on the last Saturday in April, this year on the 28th, and the statute provides tliat exercises in the schools of the State shall be held on the Friday before. The welfare of birds and trees is so closely connected that it is appropriate that both should have the same day of the year set aside for them. It will be appropriate on Arbor Day to plant trees and also to put out bird-houses. THE STATE Mr. Forbush's bill for the publication of a book on ORNITHOLOGIST, the birds of Massachusetts, illustrated with colored plates, still awaits enactment in spite of the enthusi- asm for it in many quarters. After being considered by the Ways and Means Committee it has been sent up to the Supervisor of Administration at the State House, where it now rests. As such a book would in the end repay its entire cost to the State and would be of inestimable value to bird- students as well as an aid to Agriculture, it is earnestly hoped that it will be reported favorably and will pass. The Bill for more power and an increased appropriation for the State Ornithologist did not at first meet favor with the Ways and Means Committee, which reduced the appropria- tion from $3900 to $2600. After further consideration and much pressure brought by the friends of the measure the amount was in part restored and the bill became a law with the appropriation standing at $3500. The work of the State Ornithologist has grown rapidly during the last few years and is recognized everywhere as of great value to the Commonwealth. This increased appropriation will provide a stenographer and general office assist- ant, of which there has been great need. FEDERAL LEGISLATION. All forces working for Conservation in this country are to be con- gratulated on the Ratification of the Treaty with Great Britain, making the protection of our migratory birds uniform in Canada as well as in the United States. This extends the Federal law protecting the migratory game and insectivorous birds, and clinches it. Even if the Supreme Court should, as opponents of the law have hoped, declare it unconstitutional, the law will not fail of effect, for the treaty covers the same ground and is outside the jurisdiction of the Court. In spite of the turmoil and anxiety of war, King George signed the treaty promptly; it has been signed by the Cana- dian and American plenipotentiaries and is now the law of the land. 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society There remains, however, one very important matter, and that is to provide means and methods for its enforcement. This requires that Congress pass an "Enabling Act." Early in the last session the forces gathered at Washington, the act was drafted, revised, and finally submitted. It places entire authority for enforcing the treaty, providing minor regulations con- cerning it, the appointment of wardens, etc., in the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture. It appropriates $170,000. for the same and provides that the act shall take effect on passage. Recognizing the great importance of this act in the cause of bird protection, the Audubon Societies have been doing their best to procure its passage. The Massachusetts Society appro- priated SIOOO to help secure its enforcement. Mr. T. Gilbert Person, Sec- retary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, was continually on the ground at Washington and all possible efforts were made both by individuals and organizations. In spite of this the shortness of the session and the stress of threatened war worked against the bill and the session came to an end before it could be voted upon. An extra session has been called for April 2. President Wilson is known to be favorable to the passage of the act. Renewed efforts will be made and there is good reason to hope for success. LOCAL BIRD NOTES. WINTERING Mockingbirds and a Northern winter seem to most MOCKINGBIRDS. people incompatible. Yet the two occasionally meet in Massachusetts. There is a mockingbird which inhabits the Arnold Arboretimi at Jamaica Plain, and has for several win- ters past. He is often found by following the path from the Administration Building to the little ponds not far away, though as with any bird you can never be sure of his whereabouts. He has been reported as singing there on sunny days in the latter part of the winter. One day early last March Mr. Henry Oldys of Washington, who was then beginning his lecture tour of the State in the interests of the Audubon Societies, heard him there in full song and came into the office all in a glow of delight over it. Later in the spring Miss Jennie Robbins of the Miss Hattie Audubon Society of Louisville, Ky., had a similar pleasant experience. A mockingbird in full song for the enjoyment of visiting Southerners is one more evidence of Boston hospitality. But Boston is not the only part of the State thus favored. Dr. H. E. Maynard of 80 Church Street, Winchester, reported a mockingbird at his window the morning after Christmas. The bird gladly took food that was put out for it and has been about the neighborhood ever since. The Rev. Manley B. Townsend, Secretary of the New Hampshire Audubon Society reports a mockingbird at Manchester, New Hampshire, in November. EVENING These beautiful birds from the far Northwest have visited GROSBEAKS. New England in increasing numbers during the last few winters. They are reported in various places from Maine to Connecticut this year. A large flock has been in and about Lexington durinf most of the winter, where hundreds of people have seen them. They Monthly Bulletin 5 came daily to the Dane place to eat the seed of a box-elder tree. Just lately they have ceased to come, probably because the supply of seeds is exhausted. Recently a flock of six or seven has been seen daily in the forenoon at the home of Miss Addie Clarke, on Garfield Street, Watertown. Here a Japanese crab apple tree, which still retains its tiny red apples, attracts them. Apparently they eat the seeds alone, as much of the fruit remains on the tree still, though sheared across by the beaks of the birds, the seeds being taken in every instance. The owners of the place are perfectly willing that bird lovers should come there to watch the birds. In Quincy, near the grounds of the new Neighborhood Club, is a group of buckthorn trees of a species not common hereabouts where all buck- thorns are foreigners, imported from Europe. The grosbeaks feed on these berries and a small flock is this year, as it has in years past, visiting them daily. Sometimes the birds visit the feeding places afternoons, but they are much more likely to be found in the morning, say between ten and twelve. The evening grosbeaks seem especially fond of sunflower seeds, and people who have had the good fortune to attract them to their feeding stations have in some cases been able to hold them here in the East until long after the usual time of departure. In one instance in Ithaca, New York, and in another in Exeter, New Hampshire, they stayed until about the twentieth of May. Although May is nesting time with them, the birds which linger here have not so far been known to nest, though it is reported that one of the New Hampshire birds was seen with nesting material in his beak. The theory has been advanced, and it seems to have much to sustain it, that the birds have been drawn farther and farther eastward in the last quarter of a century by the increased planting of the box-elder and, per- haps, some other Western trees that hold their seeds in winter. The birds come along from tree to tree and from town to town seeking these seeds, a favorite winter food with them in their home region. If Grosbeaks as well as mockingbirds can be added to our Massachu- setts avifauna the bird protectionists will begin to feel that the dawn of the bird millennium is at hand. They may summer as well as winter in time, for a credible witness reports one seen in southern New Hampshire last August feeding on lilac seeds and there is a record of one bird in mid- summer in New York State, many years ago. GREAT BLUE HERON. One would hardly expect a Great Blue heron to enjoy the winter in New Hampshire, es- pecially this year, yet one elected to winter in Nashua, attracted, no doubt, by the fish hatchery there. He appeared in the early part of the winter and would no doubt have been there now, had he not decided to feed on the finest and most expensive fish in the State, brook trout. Because of this, and because he would not go away in spite of many admonitions, the State authorities, including the State Audubon Society, reluctantly con- sented to have him killed. "BILL TAFT." In the letters received at the office on many topics we often get delightful stories of bird life and that kindness toward it which is manifested nowadays by so many people. "In my own Rare and Beautiful Winter Birds ARE NOW WITH US Many of These are Figured Life Size, in Colors, in AUDUBON BIRD CHART Number Three Drawn by LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTES Bob-white Prairie Horned Lark Pine Siskin Redpoll Red Crossbill male and female Brown Creeper Northern Shrike Pine Grosbeak male and female Ruffed Grouse Snow Bunting Goldfinch, winter plumage Myrtle Warbler, winter plumage Purple Finch, female Red-breasted Nuthatch Slate-colored Junco Tree Sparrow White-winged Crossbill, male and female The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum, These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1917. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text: Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50, but on and after February 15th they may be had by applying to this office at $1.00 each, postpaid. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. APRIL, 1917 Number 3. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-oflSce at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. 2 Massachusetts Audubon Society BIRDS AS WAR- WINNERS In all the fight that the country is putting up against autocrat aggres- sion, it is well not to forget our allies the birds. He who encourages two birds to live on his land where but one bird lived before is making a good •stroke against the enemy. The war is to be won as much in the reserve trench which is the farmer's furrow as it is on the firing line. Beans are to count as well as bullets, and to produce record crops of potatoes is as important as to provide record outputs of shells and hand grenades. Therefore, he who cultivates his fields is only half a farmer if he does not cultivate the birds that go with the fields. The reason is plain to any- one who knows birds. It is only the ignorant farmer who still believes the robin does harm by taking a bite of a strawberry now and then. Far more likely the bird is hunting for cutworms and grubs that do great harm to the strawberry plants and the principal reason why he takes fruit is because he is thirsty. It will be well to cultivate the robin along with the bean. Cutworms wreck the bean crop but the robin wrecks the cutworms. One of the simplest ways to cultivate the robin is to put out a bird bath for him. A shallow pan filled with water will do or a cement pool can readily be made. Fill this from a garden hose or from a pail. Sweep it clean occasionally. The birds that drink there will be likely to let the fruit alone, and the presence of the pool will attract birds that otherwise would never visit the place. A robin shelf, which is a sheltered platform put on a post or in the crotch of a tree, may encourage the robin selecting his nesting- site and a dish of mud put out by the bird bath will furnish material for the foundation of the nest. Do these things and you will help fight the Germans with increased garden crops. The robin eats not only earthworms and cutworms but grasshoppers and caterpillars of many kinds and is especially fond of the March fly larvae that are so injurious to the haycrops. In a like manner, birdhouses for the wrens, bluebirds, tree swallows, nuthatches, downy woodpeckers and all other hole-nesting birds are a step forward in farm efficiency. Make the entrance hole to the birdhouses an inch and a half in diameter. Put it high under a projecting roof, and almost any form of box will do for the rest of it. Put the birdhouse up on a post in the open if possible or in a lone tree whose shade is not too deep. The birds just mentioned are particularly efficient in clearing the garden of insect pests that often wreck the crops. The house wren destroys caterpillars, bugs, spiders, grasshoppers, locusts, webworms and injurious beetles of many kinds. The chickadee will in one day destroy six to eight thousand eggs of canker-worm moths. The chickadees are also eating the gypsy moth eggs with similar efficiency. The tree swallows are great fly and mosquito catchers. They also destroy flying ants, beetles and weevils. The woodpeckers save the trees from the very injurious leopard moth and scores of other wood-destroying insects. Nor are the hole-nesting birds the only efficient first-aids to the gardener. The food of the meadowlark is mostly grasshoppers. Twenty-two per cent, of the food of the bluejay consists of grasshoppers and caterpillars. And so one might go through the lists of birds from the smallest songsters to the crows, hawks and owls and find scarcely one but what in his diet is of much use to the farmer. Those birds which take toll from our fruit trees, as has already been suggested, may be led away from them by giving them plenty of water to drink and especially by planting other fruits of which they are more fond than our garden varieties. For instance the Russian mulberry Monthly Bulletin 3 is exceedingly attractive to fruit-eating birds. A mulberry tree planted near the garden saves the strawberries and cherries. Juneberry, wild black cherry, elder, buckthorn, mountain-ash are all fruit-savers so far as the birds are concerned. But make no mistake ; however much of the garden fruit the birds may take they pay for it many times over in the insect pests which they exterminate. Let us, then, while we wage successful war by cultivating gardens to their utmost capacity, also cultivate the birds. As first assistant gardeners they have no equal. Because of the great shortage in potatoes and the consequent very high prices the Federal Government is urging us all to grow as many potatoes as possible. It should be noted that two birds are of especial value to the potato-grower because they feed eagerly upon the worst pest which potato- growers ever encountered — the Colorado potato-beetle. Unless these insects which invariably infest our potato fields are energetically destroyed, no potatoes can be grown. The larvae eat the vines down to the ground and kill the plants. It costs the farmers of the Bay State thousands of dollars every year to spray their growing potato vines with Paris green. Rose-breasted grosbeaks, great destroyers of potato-bugs, have increased in numbers of late years. They are protected at all times by law, but the quail which is one of the most efficient insect-eating birds that we have is still on the list as a gamebird. Probably the most efficient feathered protector that we can have for our potato fields is the quail, and in many quarters, notably among the grangers, the question of putting the quail on the songbird list is being seriously considered. To remove the quail from the gamebird list would cause great dissatisfaction among the sportsmen without doubt, but when we consider that the war is to be won in our gardens and that the quail is one of the most efficient assistant gardeners that we have it is a question whether the quail, for the duration of the war at least, ought not to be free from the menace of dog or gun. BIRDHOUSE Birdhouse contests are numerous the country over nowadays, CONTESTS. especially at this time of year. In many instances numer- ous prizes of considerable value are given, and the children work manfully and with much ingenuity to produce prize-winning bird- houses. Such a contest was recently held in Norwood, Massachusetts, ably managed by the Conservation Department of the Norwood Woman's Club. In this contest the children of different grades competed, two prizes being offered in each grade, a first and second. Nearly two hundred birdhouses were produced, some of them admirably adapted to the needs of the birds, others astounding in their architectural ingenuity and diversity of arrange- ment. All things considered, Norwood should be proud of its young bird- house-builders, not only because of the diligence and ingenuity displayed, but also for the universal interest that was taken in the work. The bird- houses were exhibited in the Civic Centre and attracted a large and admiring throng both day and evening. Worcester also has held its annual birdhouse contest with very excellent results. Mrs. H. E. Witter, the Society's very efficient Local Secretary for Worcester, reports that twenty-one prizes in all were offered and one hundred and seventy-eight houses were built this year. As only seventy-five were offered in this contest last vear it would seem that the interest is increasing very rapidly. In both vears the Belmont Street School has been the largest exhibitor. The prize-winning birdhouses will be 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society exhibited in the window of a Main Street store. As this phase of bird pro- tection work continues, it becomes increasingly evident that a definite knowledge as to the requirements of a satisfactory birdhouse is still lacking among many instructors in manual training and indeed among some bird- house manufacturers as well. Bulletin 609 of the Department of Agriculture at Washington gives plans and specifications for birdhouses. Some of these are excellent, but many of them are too complicated and elaborate to be effective. A better bulletin has been got out by the State Ornitliologist, Edward Howe Forbush. Unfortunately, the lack of appropriation sufficient for the work of the State Board of Agriculture has prevented a reprinting of these excellent bulletins and they are not now obtainable. THE EASY-GOING The house wren is a little bird with a big song and HOUSE WREN. a large appetite for insects. His presence in our gardens is greatly to be desired. While a common bird in the Berkshires and farther west, wrens have of late years been scarce in eastern Massachusetts. There is some evidence, however, that wrens are coming back to the eastern counties of the State, and everything possible should be done to encourage them. The wren is quite reckless as to the site and proportions of his house, provided always that the entrance is big enough for him. Wliile a wren may be able to squeeze into an inch hole, it is far better to provide an entrance hole an inch and a quarter in diameter, and the wren, like the chickadee, will readily use an entrance hole an inch and a half in diameter, which is big enough for a bluebird or a tree swallow. After that things really don't matter much. A wren has been known to nest in a human skull, using the eye hole for an entrance. Wrens have nested in two-inch water-pipes, in cows' skulls, in old hats, tin cans, and flower- pots. There is a story of a man who hung up an old pair of trousers on a nail out back of the barn, and of a pair of wrens that came along and built a nest in the pocket. On the William Rockefeller estate at Tarrytown, N. Y., a year or two ago one of the maids left a white cloth bag nearly filled with clothespins hanging out in the clothesyard over night. In the morning it was found that a pair of wrens were building a nest in it. The bag was allowed to remain, and the wren family was successfully reared in this novel birdhouse. For all this we do not recommend skulls or trouser pockets or tin cans for wrens. It is far better to put up a simple, neat, attractive box which will not be an eyesore in the garden or upon the lawn. The same holds true of other birdhouses. A dilapidated tomato-can may suit the bird, but it is no credit to the householder to have such unsightly objects fastened on the trees about his place. Let us house the birds by all means, but let us do it with good taste and good judgment. NEW BIRDS The tendency of the house wren to come back once IN OLD PLACES. more to eastern Massachusetts is similar to tendencies shown by other birds in other places. In another bulletin the movement of the mockingbirds northward was mentioned. News of their presence in several other places has come, and it seems to be a rather definite movement. In the same way the Carolina wren — a splendid songster and a Southern bird — has been moving up along the southern New England coast for some years. These birds are reported in southern Rhode Island and about Buzzards Bay, and in several instances have been seen farther north. Unusual birds come into other regions in quite the same way. There Monthly Bulletin 5 has been for many years a marked eastward movement of the prairie horned lark, which is now settled seemingly permanently in many areas in New England. The spring bulletin of the Illinois Audubon Society notes briefly several "invasions" of this sort. Such typical Western birds, as the white- headed woodpecker, the Western grebe and Harris's sparrow are appearing in Illinois and birds of central and southern Illinois are extending their range northward. Not long ago the cardinal grosbeak's farthest north was River- side, ten miles southeast of Chicago. For the last three years cardinals have nested on a wooded ridge along Lake Michigan twenty-three miles north of Chicago. During the last two years the tufted titmouse has come up to Chicago from the south. All these things are very interesting, and the editors of the Bulletin would be glad to learn of observations which show similar tendencies on the part of unusual birds here in Massachusetts, NEW The Society is glad to report continued interest in its work MEMBERS, and loyal support from the general public. Since January 1st — 21 Life Members and 1244 Sustaining Members have been added to the rolls as follows — Life Members. Baxter, Mrs. H. W., 524 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Beebe, Charles P., 6 Beacon St., Boston Berger, Bertha I., 43 Maple St., Grove Hall, Mass. Bowditch, James H., 903 Tremont Building, Boston Brown, Annie H., 31 Maple St., Stoneham Butler, Mrs. Paul, 333 Andover St., Lowell Collins, Mrs., Charles H., 15 Tremlett St., Dor. Conant, Mrs. Caroline M., 17 Fairbanks St., B'kl'n. Elliott, Herford N., 64 Central St., Lowell Foster, Francis P., Edgartown Hicks, Mrs. John j.. Hotel Touraine, Boston Hooper, William, Manchester Kelley, Robert M., 17 Alton Place, Brookline Lawrence, Annie W., 332 Tappan St., Brookline Lyman, Mrs. Henry, 36 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Lothrop, Mrs. W. S. H., 114 Beacon St., Boston McKee, Mrs., Wm. L., 284 Commonwealth Ave. Post, Miss E. C, 406 Marlborough St. Boston Shattuck, Mrs. George H.j 37 Chestnut St., Salem Sturgis, S. Warren, Groton Toppan, Mrs. Robert N., Highland St., Cambridge Sustaining Members. Aberdeen. Mrs. Alice, 1898 Beacon St., Brookline Aiken, John A., Greenfield Alford, Elizabeth, 462 Harvard St., Brookline Allen, Miss E. W., 12 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Allyn, Mrs. John, 11 Berkeley St., Cambridge Almy, William, P. O. Box 1241, Boston Ames, Miss A. H., 260 Clarendon St., Boston Arnold, Mrs. George F., 60 Davis Ave. Brookline Atkinson, Caroline P., 5 Brimmer St., Boston Austin, Mrs. Calvin, Parker House, Boston Bacon, Mrs. Wm., 134 Buckrainster Rd., Brookline Bade, Mrs. Wm. F., 323 Marlboro St., Boston Bailey, Osmon C, 90 Babcock St., Brookline Balch, Miss Agnes G., 16 Traill St., Cambridge Baldwin, Mrs. E. C, Hotel Hemenway, Boston Bancroft, Anna M., Hotel Somerset, Boston Banks, Jessie F. A., 53 Waverly St., Brookline Barbour, Dorothy, 45 Temple Ave., Winthrop Bardol, Mrs. E. A., 1101 Beacon St., Brookline Barnabee, Henry Clay, 16 Roanoke Ave., Jam. PI. Barrows, Florence H., 34 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Barton, Mrs. F. L., 68 Marlboro St., Boston Bassett, J. P., 1253 Beacon St., Brookline Bates, Frank C, 76 Sewall Ave., Brookline Benedict, Mrs. Wm. G., 392 Marlborough St., Bos. Bennett, Alta E., 19 Ash St., Cambridge Bent, Peggy, 12 Otis PI., Boston Bird, Caroline E., 5 Strathmore Road, Brookline Bishop, Mrs. Arthur A., Brookline Bishop, Arthur A., Brookline Blossom, Mrs. W. L., 122 Davis Ave., Brookline Belles, Mrs. W. P., 782 Washington St., Brookline Bonney, Helena C, 32 Arlington St., Cambridge Boody, Bertha M., 61 Garden St., Cambridge Bowen, James W., 14 Marlboro St., Boston Bowditch, Mrs. Henry P., Moss Hill Rd., J. Plain Bowditch, Henry, 106 Mason Terrace, Brookline Bourne, Mrs. Garnett, Jr., 63 Pleasant St., Br'kl'n. Bradford, Annie A., 23 Buckingham St., Cambridge Brady, John W. S.^ 156 Mt. Vernon St., Boston Brewer, Dr. H., 16 John St., Brookline Briggs, F. H., 390 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Brigham, L. F., Chestnut Hill Bright, E. Gertrude, 91 Salisbury Road, Brookline Briry, E. Louise, 88 E. Wyoming Ave., Melrose Brooks, Harry A., 99 Lexington Ave., Cambridge Brooks, Laurence G., 53 State St., Boston • Brooks, Margarette W., 60 Ocean Ave., Salem Brown, D. Arthur, 101 Tremont St., Boston Brush Hill Bird Club, Milton, Mass. Buckingham, Elinor M., South Natick Buckingham, Mrs. George H., Hotel Puritan, Bos. Buckingham, Mary H., 96 Chestnut St., Boston Burnham, Mrs. J. A., 57 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. l^urnstead. Miss J. F., 12 Berkeley St., Cambridge Burr, Miss Mary'C, 857 Beacon St., Boston Butler, Miss Sarah R., 9 Vernon St., Brookline Caldwell, Louise W., Alban St., Dorchester Centre Casselberry, Mrs. Clarence M., 1891 Beacon St. Carter, Clarence H., 1136 Old South Building, Bos. Chace, Mrs. Amos M„ 3 Wales St., Dorchester Chamberlain, Dr. & Mrs. M. L., 482 C'm'w'th Ave. Chapman, Miss Frances H., 2 Church St., Bradford Childs, Mrs. H. W., Hotel Bristol, Boston Chipman, Mrs. Mary B., 239 Ashmont St., Dor. Churchill, Anna Quincy, 32 Percival St., Dor. Clapp, Marguerite S., 24 Salcombe St., Dorchester Clark, Mrs. E. Stuart, 33 Bay State Road, Boston Clark, Dr. J. P., 71 Marlborough St., Boston Clark, Mrs. O. D., 1223 Beacon St., Brookline Massachusetts Audubon Society Clark The Misses, 22 Sacremento St., Cambridge Cleveland, Miss Elizabeth L. T., 237 Berkley St. Clemens, Mrs. Stanley, Hotel Westminster, Bos. Cobb, Mrs. Emily C, IS Linden St., Brookline Codman, Mrs. E. A., 227 Beacon St., Boston Codman, John S., 50 State St^, Boston Collins, Mrs. Lucy A., 122 Davis Ave., Brookline Comer, Mrs. Fred J., 14 Mellville Ave. Dor. Cotharine, Miss Kate Leah, 92 Marlboro St., Bos. Crosby, A. Morris, 51 Middlesex Road, Ch s n t H 1. Cross, Harriet J., 1716 Beacon St., Brookline Crowell Henry E., 175 Dartmouth St., Boston Crump, Mrs. Charles H., 177 Newbury St., Bos. Cunningham, Mrs. J. H., 104 St. James Ave., Bos. Cundy Alice A., 26 Elm Hill Ave., Roxbury Dabney, Miss Alice, 272 Adams St., Milton Dabney, Mrs. Harriet W., 272 Adams St., Milton Dana, James, 41 Allerton St., Brookline Dana Miss M. Corinne, 270 Commonwealth Ave. Daniels, Mrs. Edwin A., 302 Newbury St., Boston Daniell, Miss M. E., 271 Newbury Street, Boston Daniels, Miss Emma N., 6 Bellvista Road, Allston Davenport, Mary H. Davis, Miss Catalina, Gloucester Davis, Mrs. C. S., 39 Pilgrim Road, Boston Davis, Lucy B., Gloucester ^ „ . Day, Miss Annie F., 280 Newbury St., Boston Day Mrs. Chester S., 1711 Commonwealth Ave. Deane, Miss E. R., 41 Waverley St., Boston Denyven, Mrs. George W., 86 Grampian Way, Dor. Dodd, Mrs. John A., 38 Quincy St Cambridge Dodge, Mrs. A. J., 20 Wabon St., Grove Hall Dolly Madison Chapter, Daughters of the Kev- Dolution, 27 Windsor Road, Wellesley Hills Dow, Mrs. H. E., 27 Audubon Road, Boston Downes Sarah L., 83 Sutherland Road, Boston Dowse. Charles F., 340 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Dowse, Dorothy P., 412 Beacon St., Boston Drown, Miss M. F., 1101 Beacon St., Brookline Dudley, Miss Laura H., 24 Avon Hill St., Cam. Durfee, Randall, Fall River, Mass. Ely Mrs P V. B., 288 Marlboro St., Boston Emerson, Nathaniel W., 118 Forest Hills St., J. P. Emrich, Rev., F. E., 14 Beacon St., Boston Estabrook, F. C, 4 Montrose St., Roxbury Fairchild, Josephine C, 48 Kilsyth Road, B kline. Farley, Arthur C, Auburndale Fiske, Mrs. A., 216 Commonwealth Ave.. Boston Fiske' Mr A W., 3 Mercer Circle, Cambridge Fitzpatrick, Elizabeth C, 73 Gardner Road, B'kline. Flanders, Alton Leroy, 1996 Columbus Ave., Bos. Flint, Mrs. Lulu, 240 Newbury St., Boston Floyd, Mr. & Mrs. F. G., 325 Park St., W. Rox. Foot, Dr. N. Chandler, Readville Gannett, W. G., 3 Berkeley Place, Cambridge Gay Mrs. F. L., Fisher Ave., Brookline Gilman, Mrs. M. W., 41 St. Stephen St., Boston Gleason, Mr. & Mrs. Herbert W., 1259 C'w th. Ave. Goodnough, Mrs. X. H., 70 Stratford St W. Rox Goodwin, Mrs. Homer, 133 Ruthven St., Grove Hall Green, Charles E., 75 Pitts St., Boston Greene, John Gardner, 6 Chestnut St., Boston Grew, Mrs. T. C, 299 Marlboro St., Boston Guild Helen, 222 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Gulick, Mrs. E. S., 77 Addington Road, Brookline Hall, Charlotte B., 15 Montview St., West Rox. Hamlin, Mrs. George P., 185 Bay State Road, Bos. Hammond, Mrs. G. G., 172 Beacon St., Boston Hard wick, C. H., 104 Revere Road, Quincy, Mass. Hart, Mrs. Martha S., Hotel Westminster, Boston Harvard Bird Club, Harvard Haskell, A. H., 2.5 Walnut Park, Roxbury Haskell, M. T., 25 Walnut Park, Roxbury Haskell, S. A., 25 Walnut Park, Roxbury Hassett, Mrs. Charlotte M., 1897 Beacon St., B k e. Hatch, Mrs. John Collamore, Hingham Centre Hawkes, Caroline M., 15 Euclid St., Dorchester Heath, Mrs. Annie M., 2 Elm St., Manchester Heath, Eadith de C, Heath Hill, Brookline Hedge, Miss C. A., 440 Boylston St., Brookline Hersey, Miss Mary L., 6 Madison Hall, Trinity Ct. Heywood, Miss Lucy B., 60 Waverley St., B'klinc. Hildreth, Stanley B., Harvard Holland. Mrs. E. S., 1600 Beacon St., Brookline Holt, Miss Mary A., 13 Pleasant Ave., Somerville Homer, George E., 35 Tremlett St., Dorchester Hooker, Miss Sarah H., The Bristol, 541 Blst'n St. Hopkins, Miss E. A., 1101 Beacon St., Brookline Uornblower, Mrs. Ralph, 17 W. Cedar St., Boston Howbridge, Mrs. L. D., 59 Longwood Ave., B'kline. Hubbard, Fannie M., 6 Middlesex Circle, C. Hill Hubbard, Marian E., Wellesley College, Wellesley Hubbard, William B., 31 Congreve St., Roslindale Hutchins, Amy, 37 Mt. Vernon St., Cambridge Hutchinson, Charles M., Cambridge Irwin. C. D., 50 Willard Road, Brookline Jackson, Mr. Lewis B., 9 Maple St., W. Roxbury Jameson, Charles A., 19 Arlington St., Boston Jardine, Mrs. William, 34 Rosedale St., Dorchester Jealom, Mrs. Grace Hill, 409 Marlborough St. Jewell, Edith, 37 Brimmer St., Boston Tones, Mrs. F. E., 48 Corey Road, Brookline Jones, Miss K., 195 St. Paul St., Brookline Jones, Mrs. Marie Floyd, 73 Perry St., Brookline Jones, Mrs. Westley, 164 Ruthven St., Grove Hall Keller, C. T., SO Congress St., Boston Kendall, Miss Blanche, 20 Dudley St., Brookline Kendall. Marion A., 32 Highland St., Cambridge Kent, Mrs. Everett E. 42 Waterston Road, Newton Keyes, Waldo, 46 Westland Ave., Boston Kidner, Mr. R., 16 Brimmer St., Boston King, Annie P.. 179 Commonwealth Ave., Boston Kinsman, Dr. Ada R., 182 Upland Road, Cam. Kittredge, Mrs. A. E., 84 Huntington Ave., Bos. Kittredge, Mrs. G. L., 8 Hilliard St., Cambridge Langfeld, Mrs. F. H., 38 Francis Ave., Cambridge Lee, Mrs. Elizabeth S., 42 Avon St., Cambridge Lee, Elliot C, Warren S., cor. Clyde, Brookline Lee, Sylvia, 42 Avon St., Cambridge Leonard, Mrs. George F., 462 Harvard St., B'kline. Leonard, Mary F., 5 Chestnut St., Boston Leverone, Mrs. Michael, 668 Wash'n St. Brighton Libby, Frances Josephine, 1569 Beacon St., B'l'ne. Libby, Sarah C, 4 Montrose St., Roxbury Libbey, Miss Alia A., 33 Concord Ave., Cambridge Lincoln, W. H., 60 Beech Road, Brookline Linder, David H., York St., Canton Little, Henrietta A., 107 Upland Road, Brookline Lodge, H. E., Hotel Hemenway, Boston Loud, Mrs. Alice E., 67 Munroe St., Roxbury Luce, Alice H. A., 10 Wellington Road, B'kline. Lugrin, Mrs. Charles L., 80 Pine St., Lewiston, Me. MacKinnon, John R., 35 Prince St., Jamaica Plain Macomber, Mrs. I. E., 11 Russell St., Brookline Makee, Mrs. S. A., 382 Commonwealth Ave., Bos. Marshall, Norman, West Newton Mayo, Mrs. C. G., 66 Summit Ave., Brookline McAllister, Miss Harriet L., 270 Com'wealth Ave. McHenry. Edith D., Chestnut Hill McKissock, Mr. Wm., 48 Devon St., Chestnut Hill Merrick, Robert W., 41 Greenleaf St., Quincy Metcalf, Mrs. Nelson C, 22 Linnaean St., Cam. Minot, Wm., 18 Tremont St., Boston Morse, Rev. Glenn T., All Sts. Rectory, W. N'wb'y. Mulliner, Miss Anna, 11 Queensbury St., Boston The Old Colony Union, Bourne, Mass. Peabody, Alfred, 197 Brattle St., Cambridge Peabody, Charles, 197 Brattle St., Cambridge Pearce, M. E., 61 Mt. Vernon St.. Boston Phinney, H. A.. 185 Summer St., Boston Pierce, Oliver K., Ayer, Mass. Pillsbury, Elizabeth D., Wellesley Farms Pillsbury, Parker W., Wellesley Farms Polk, Miss Mary, 25 Wheatland Ave., Dorchester Poole, Henry G., 54 Granville Ave., Wollaston Ray, Miss S. Frank, 91 Ash St., Waltham Read, Carrie E., Barre Read, Florence H., Barre Richardson, Mrs. F. L. W., Charles River, Mass. Rogers, Mrs. Emmelyn S., 44 Glen Rd., Winchester Scott, Albert L., Newton Shepard, Harvey N., 1048 Exchange Bldg., Boston Stanwood. H. P.. 9 Powder House Road. Medford Stantial, Helen. 146 Florence St., Melrose Sturgis, Miss Fanny T., Hotel Somerset, Boston Sweet, Miss Ida M., 15 Tremlett St., Dorchester Swift, Mrs. James M. . Hotel Puritan, Boston Taylor, Horace, 294 Walnut Ave., Brookline Treadwell, Sanford L., SO York Terrace, B'kline. Walker, Cora M., Dighton Walthers, Norman F., 18 Beltran St., Maiden Weitkamp. A. E.. 1563 Blue Hill Ave., Boston Wheeler, Mrs. Henry N., 55 Garden St., Cam. White, Miss Eliza O., 222 High St., Brookline Weick, Miss Christine, Ponkapoag Monthly Bulletin 7 BIRD DAY The Massachusetts Audubon Society, co-operating with AT AMHERST. the State Board of Agriculture, the State Grange and the State Agricultural College will celebrate Bird Day at Amherst, Mass., on the grounds of the Agricultural College on May 19th. There will be eminent speakers on topics of great interest. There will be an exhibition of bird-protection appliances and bird literature of all kinds. The site of the celebration is a very beautiful one, and at the time of the exhibition is particularly attractive to bird-lovers, as the Connecticut Valley is a great highway along which passes the annual migration, which will be just about at its height at that time. This meeting will be well worth the attention of all interested in birds or in agriculture, and all who read this are cordially invited to attend. A CHURCH- In the Department of Orinthology so ably edited by GOING ROBIN. iiarry G. Higbee in the "Guide to Nature" is a very in- teresting story about a western Canadian robin. Up in the Saskatchewan district, where trees are scarce, birds are numerous and those which nest in trees sometimes have difficulty in finding appropriate nesting sites. "One spring Sunday when the janitor of the little stone church closed it for the week he accidentally left one of the windows open for a few inches at the top. A robin, looking for a safe nesting location, spied this opening and went in. On the following Sunday the congregation saw on the ledge at tlie top of one of the pillars behind the pulpit a regu- lation robin's nest, built according to all the plans and specifications of a robin's nest architecture and all ready for occupancy. The nest was allowed to remain and the window was left open so that the happy pair continued their home-making undisturbed. When time came for the mother to devote herself to the care of the eggs, the church service did not drive her from her post of duty, but she remained quietly on the nest. Occasionally during the service her mate brought her some dainty morsel of food. Interest in this portion of the Sunday services increased with the arrival of the yoxmg birds. The busy parents flying in and out with food and the calls of the hungry little ones were a considerable test for both minister and congre- gation." "THE CRAZY ROBIN Perhaps the most extraordinary story of a nesting OF SOUTHBORO." robin comes from our own State. Rev. R. F. Cheney of Southboro, tells of a bird that decided to build a nest on the town stone-crusher. Under the roof there were a number of crossing beams, each crossing providing a cozy nook for a robin's nest. To this place came a robin that really seems to have suffered from mental aberration. It started a nest on one beam, then went to another and another, and so on until ten nests in all had been started, each close by the next one. These nests varied in completeness from a few sticks which were but faint beginnings to two at least which were completed. In one of these one egg was laid, in another three eggs. On the three eggs the mother bird sat. They hatched and the young were brought up in regulation fashion. We hear of robins that build double nests, but here is one that built or at least started to build ten nests. So far as heard from this is the record on nest-building for any one robin. The Wellesley Hills Birds Club begins a new year of prosperity and energetic work with Professor Albert P. Morse as President. The region is a fine bird country and the members of the Club have excellent oppor- ^ Massachusetts Audubon Society tunities for bird study and bird protection. Among interesting items of news with this Club is the presence in the neighborhood of a flock of about two hundred Bohemian waxwings. These remained for about two weeks, and the white bars on the wings were plainly seen by a number of Club members who are quite sure of the identification. Another interesting feature of the bird life of Wellesley Hills is a pair of red-breasted nut- hatches nesting in an ordinary wooden birdhouse as reported by T. W. Saunders. In spite of the tremendous upset of all ordinary conditions of life in England caused by the rigors and duration of the war, the work of the bird protectionists does not cease. A fine step in advance has been taken through the new law which prohibits the importation of the plumage of wild birds into England during the duration of the war. This has been brought about largely through the persistent efforts of that old-time campaigner for bird protection, Mr. James Buckland. Frostburg, Maryland, has the only marble palace for purple martins in existence. Martins have nested there close by the Frostburg bank for one hundred years. Their first house was placed on the modest bank building of that time, a wooden structure. Not long ago the old bank building was torn down and a new one erected, a beautiful marble edifice, but the martins were not forgotten. Their house was put up too, also in marble, and they now occupy these very grand quarters, seemingly as modest about it as their forefathers were in the old wooden house. THE BIRD Beginners in bird study will find in the "Bird Study STUDY BOOK. Book," by T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, just the things they need to know, — all about equipment, field work, winter study, migration of birds, the fundamental facts of bird study and the story of the fight for bird conservation in this country. Teachers of nature study will find this book especially useful. There is a special chapter on teaching bird study in which the author writes from a wide personal experience. Mr. Pearson is one of the best-informed writers on birds in America. He is just the author to kindle enthusiasm, as making friends with the birds has been a life hobby and study. Can you answer these questions? You can if you have the "Bird Study Book." Do birds have more than one mate? Are there bird spinsters? What bird is called the outcast? Why do birds migrate? What bird has more hours of daylight than any other creature on the globe? What birds winter in your particular locality? How many birds are there in the world? The price of the "Bird Study Book" is $1.25. It can be bought at this office and will be mailed to any address at $1.35. The Audubon Society heartily recommends this book. Monthly Bulletin "ROBIN CARUSO." Dear Mr. Packard; Our home is in Ashmont, in the southerly part of Boston. In the spring of 1916 the earliest robins came to us on the 29th day of March, and their regular morning song began on the 31st day of the same month. In April a male robin appeared with such a marked individuality of song and manner that he aroused in us the liveliest interest and the highest admira- tion. We were first attracted by his song. The voice was like that of a robin only in some general characteristics of tone production. The selection of forms and the delivery made truly an extraordinary performance. Indeed, when we first heard this robin and before we had seen him, we thought he might be a mocking bird, the same as we had previously known in Texas, until he came and sang in a tree close by the house, where we positively identified him. Even after we had discovered him to be a robin, the impression re- mained with us that he had lived under the early influence of the mocking bird. In time we thought he was telling us in his song the story that he had been reared in 1914 from a nest in one of our own trees, and in the autumn of that year had gone far south with the great flocks, whence from some cause he did not return with the other robins in the spring of 1915, but stayed in the land of the mocking bird, bereft of the society and the teach- ing of his own kind, until meeting with the robins again in the second autimin he followed them back in the i^priiig of 1916, to the place of his nativity. We heard from this robin suggestions of the brown thrush's graceful parts, the catbird's rapid figures, the bluebird's love call, the meadow lark's plaintive note, the veery's distant flute and — if you dQ.;iiojL a^Te§dy,dp,]ui^,t,i?|)( word — the whippoorwill's sharp injunction. .j it ^ , ., -- Mrs. McCulloch gave him the appropriate nariieTiobih Caruso, iri recognition of his pre-eminence as a singer. He sang more continuously than any other robin in our neighborhood. From dawn to dusk, in sunshine or in rain, we were likely at any hour to hear this interesting and welcome voice. Never could we mistake it for the voice of any other robin. Near or far or in whatever direction, we could place him immediately wherever we heard him. He sang on the treetops and on the housetops, as robins ordi- narily do, and he sang standing on our lawn and on the stone curbing of tlie street, where we had never before seen a robin do the like. In form and color this robin was not distinguishable from other male robins. His mate also was true to her type. We could never identify either one of the pair without first hearing his voice, and knowing through him the consort if she happened to be present with him. Through the spring and until mid-summer we watched and loved Robin Caruso as one of our own. In July we went to the country and did not re- turn until September, when the singing time of the robins was over. In our absence we had lost our robin, for without that voice he was incognito, even though he was among the number of robins in our dooryard. We saw 10 Massachusetts Audubon Society him no more to know him, but we passed the winter with the keenest antici- pation and the hope that the spring of 1917 would bring him back to us again. The robins arrived late again in Ashmont this spring. We were about despairing of their ever coming, probably because of our supreme interest in them this year. Finally, in the early morning of the 21st day of March, 1917, the song notes of the first robin penetrated our open chamber windows. It was our own Robin Caruso that had been the first one to greet us. He evidently intends to stay with us this year. He sings as much as ever. His voice is still readily distinguishable from the voice of all the other robins that sing for us. There have been some changes in his reper- tory, but it is yet his very own. Yours truly, (Signed) Alfred H. McCulloch. THE ANNUAL MASS MEETING On Saturday afternoon, April 21st at 2 o'clock, more than three thousand people gathered at Tremont Temple, Boston, to attend the annual mass meet- ing of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. It is probable that no gathering of such a size has ever before occurred in the interests of bird study and bird protection. Certainly no larger audience was ever seen in Tremont Temple which is noted for the size of its mass meetings. The meeting was opened promptly by Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, President of the Society. Mr. Forbush announced that the British Government has just passed as a war measure a law, forbidding as long as the war lasts, the importation of the plumage of wild birds. He suggested that similar measures for the pro- tection of birds should be enforced in this country. One of the most valuable of these measures is the Treaty between this country and Great Britain which protects the migratory birds of this country and Canada with equal laws. This treaty has been passed and signed, but in order to give it force it will be necessary that the enabling act should pass. This failed of passage be- cause of the war, but has again in better form been brought before Congress. Secretary Packard made a brief report of the workings of the Society during the past year and urged very strongly the economic value of bird protection as a force in bringing the present war to a successful conclusion. Mr. Charles Crawford Gorst described his adventures in snaring bird songs, illustrating his very able lecture with lantern slides and giving whistling imitations of the songs of the birds. With the music of the Euro- pean Nightingale, given on the phonograph, he compared the song of the American Mockingbird, showing on the whole the superiority of the latter. This was the first time that this comparison has ever been given before any audience. M o nthly B ulletin 11 Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes gave his lecture "Birds in the Nesting Season" illustrated with many very beautiful stereopticon slides. Mr. Baynes is an old favorite with Massachusetts Audubon Society audiences and he fully lived up to his reputation. THE HEATH HEN The fire which about a year ago swept across the Heath Hen Reservation at Marthas Vineyard proved more disastrous to this remnant of a once noble gamebird than was at first supposed. It is probably true as at first stated that the fire killed but few adult birds, but it almost completely destroyed their cover and feeding grounds, leaving them through the winter with but little shelter from the inclement weather and from their worst enemies. Goshawks rarely seen in any number on the island seem to have received uncanny knowledge of an opportunity for easy prey and to have flocked thither. Mr. Day, the able warden in charge, shot a number of them during the winter and their presence is no doubt responsible for a considerable loss among the birds. Other causes seem to have worked in the same way and whereas a year ago it was confidently stated that there, were a thousand or more of the birds on the island it is now feared that hardly a hundred remain. That puts conditions back where they were when the attempt to reestablish them was begun some years ago. While this is discouraging it does not spell ultimate disaster, but something must be done to give the birds a surer and more adequate protection. Rare and Beautiful Birds ARE NOW WITH US Many of These are Figured Life Size, in Colors, in THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. I'he birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27 x 42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1917. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50, but on and after February 15th they may be had by applying to this office at $1.00 each, postpaid. The supply is limited. Send all oaoERS to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. MAY, 1917 Number 4. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (AppHcation for entry as second-class matter at the post-office at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. Massachusetts Audubon Society PLANT FOR THE BIRDS. Cold and backv/ard as our spring has been, it is not too late to plant for the birds. A rambler rose bush is often an attraction in more than one way. Growing by itself in the open on a pole or trellis, it may well afford a desirable nesting-place for the chipping sparrow. The bird finds the thorny recesses of the vine a safe place for the little, cup-shaped, horsehair- lined nest, often occupying such a vine when it climbs over a porch, giving the human family opportunity for close intercourse with the bird family. Birds that nest over a porch in this manner show usually little fear of man, and one may sit beneath with book or needle and note in comfort all that goes on in the chipping sparrow household. Often young birds thus reared become tame enough to take food from the hand and otherwise show con- fidence and friendship. The rambler rose bush may also be a great help to the birds that do not actually nest in the branches of the bush but are protected by them from enemies. A birdhouse set on a pole in the open is in the very best possible position, but the family within it is safer if the thorny bush grows about the pole, preventing marauders of any kind from climbing to them. Thus bluebirds and tree swallows, while they may or may not enjoy roses, certainly appreciate the thorns. Tubular flowers are a sure attraction for the hummingbird. Watch them in the full sunshine of most any June day and you will be likely to see a bird spirit materialize. From nowhere he comes, suddenly taking form and shape in the air before your eyes, vibrant with vivid life, cushion- ing on space as he dips his bill deep into the heart of the flower for honey, or tiny insects, or both. Keep a sharp eye on him, else he will dematerialize, vanishing into nothingness again. If your sight is good and your mind alert, you may see him take a bee line for his nest, and possibly find it by taking the same line. It's about the only way in which you'll find a hum- mingbird's nest. One would suppose the honeysuckles to be the humming- bird's favorites. He is certainly fond of them; the long tubular blooms stand at just the right angle for him. He likes also the bignonia, but a clump of larkspur, standing in the open lawn or garden is an irresistible attraction for him. He will pose before it a score of times a day. The wonderful purple bloom of the flower with this scintillant, emerald-set ruby poised against it is a sight worth going miles to see. One of our beautiful wayside flowers is the chicory. It is a perennial, its strong root sending up yearly tall racemes of scattered blue blooms. You will find these blooms at their best at dawn and they fade before noon on sunny days, sometimes remaining until nightfall under clouds. But Monthly Bulletin 3 the next morning sees another blossom a little farther along the stalk, and this blooming is constant for weeks. This is especially true if there are goldfinches about, for the birds are eager for the ripening seeds that are scattered along the flower spike beneath the renewed blossoms. They swing and sing there and their rich gold contrasting with the soft blue of the blossoms makes a fine garden decoration. Eating the immature seeds causes the plant to put forth more effort for renewed bloom and thus the goldfinches not only decorate but prolong the season of decoration. Nor is the chicory ornamental only. Its young shoots add a special tang to a salad and its roots, dried and ground, are a well-known substitute for coffee. The flower stem is really rather scraggly and is not to be recommended as a specimen plant for the front lawn, but it is at once ornamental and useful when tucked away in nooks of the back garden. One of the most useful annuals that one can plant for the birds is the Russian sunflower. Its enormous heads are full of big seeds of which birds are very fond. Unlike the chicory its seeds ripen all together, and while the plant in early bloom is a stately and picturesque thing, its later appearance as the seeds begin to ripen is not so satisfactory. The great heads bow with their weight of bird food and autumn ripening makes the sunflower row rather unsightly. For this reason it should certainly occupy the back yard. A more sightly plant, branching, with many small heads and growing in good soil six or seven feet tall is the Helianthus cucumeri- folius. This is a simflower, too, and it is reported on good authority that the goldfinches are fonder of the seeds of this than of any other species. Sunflowers are easily and quickly raised from seed by even the most inex- perienced gardener. Hemp is another plant easily raised in the ordinary backyard garden. It grows five or six feet tall in good soil, its fern-like foliage and graceful shape making it rather ornamental. The flowers are greenish plumy tufts at the branch tips. The seeds are numerous and much loved by the birds. An annual which is easily planted and whose seeds are attractive to many species of birds is the Japanese millet. The New England Nurseries, of Bedford, Massachusetts, get out a list of plants which are useful in planting for the birds. "Bird-Lore" has published such a list, compiled in a very able manner by Frederic H. Ken- nard. This list is particularly valuable, as Mr. Kennard is not only an or- nithologist of high repute but also a specialist in landscape architecture. The most readily available information on this subject is the excellent pamphlet, "Circular No. 49" compiled by Mr. E. H. Forbush, State Orni- thologist. It contains twenty pages of very informative matter and may be obtained either at this ofiBce or of the State Board of Agriculture, Room 136 State House, Boston. 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society BOSTON'S DUCK HAWK. Among the wild birds of Boston must now be nimibered the duck hawk. According to excellent authority, this bird was seen about the Cus- tom House tower a year ago last fall, making its home on, or at least fre- quenting, a convenient ledge just beneath the clock. Later it changed to a nook above the clock, which it has occupied ever since. It has been seen to strike pigeons within fifteen feet of a window in the tower and to go down to the harbor and return with a black duck. Boston has for some years been noted for its barred owl which inhabited the Granary Burying- Ground and must have made the skull and cross-bones insignia a very real thing to countless sparrows and pigeons. The nighthawks nest on the Back Bay housetops and hawk over the city. Crows often come in and raid the roof of the Rogers Building and probably other roofs in the city, taking toll of young birds and eggs in the sparrows' and pigeons' nests. These are just raids, but the duck hawk seems to have adopted the city as its home. Duck hawks usually nest on high cliffs and no doubt this bird feels perfectly at home on the high tower while the city traffic goes on so far belbw as to be in no wise disturbing. Most of our night herons go well south for the winter, spending the frigid months from the Gulf of Mexico southward. A few of them do not go so far, and the records refer to them as being "casual in winter" to Massachusetts. Last winter a pair of them stayed at Westhaven, Connecti- cut, going down the bay to the flats for food but, with excellent wisdom, returning to roost to the yard of Mr, Herbert K. Job, of the National As- sociation's Department of Applied Ornithology. Mr. Job has in his yard some tall Norway spruces, and there the birds would sit, facing the bitter wind when the thermometer registered zero or lower. The spot is in a rather thickly populated portion of Westhaven which has recently talked of applying for a city charter. Birds have sometimes a seemingly un- canny knowledge as to their friends and enemies. No man in all Con- necticut would be surer to appreciate the presence of these birds and to protect them, but how could the birds know that? Anyway, they roosted in his trees. ^ . , It may be that night herons are becoming more numerous and more friendly. Their rookeries, now rather rare inland though found in many places along the coast, used to be in almost every cedar swamp, exceedingly interesting if not altogether, attractive places when the tide of young life there was at its height. Indiscriminate nest-robbing and shooting broke these up, and the birds have been slow to come back to the old abiding- spots. Yet the report comes that eight of these have for a considerable time this spring frequented the little chain of ponds in Franklin Park near Morton St. Many people saw them there, and the officer on the beat took Monthly Bulletin 5 considerable interest in them, pointing them out to people looking for birds and being able to give their common, if not their scientific name. As to the latter, Nycticorax nycticorax nccvius is a good deal of a name even for a policeman to handle. "WAR WINGS." Patriotism gets put to quaint uses nowadays. Massachusetts has lately been flooded with circulars for the purpose of raising money for the United States Junior Naval Reserve, which is no doubt a worthy object. Unfortunately the circulars were such that much resentment was , stirred in the hearts of bird-lovers, who protested to the Massachusetts Audubon Society in considerable numbers at being earnestly besought to buy birds' wings, even for a good cause. Elaborate pictures and descriptions of these wings, incorporated in the circular, showed many of them to be probably artificial arrangements of the feathers of domestic fowls, while as to the origin of others there might be some question. It is doubtful if the attempt to raise money in this way will be productive of results, even if it is continued. Certainly it will be ineffective among mem- bers of the Audubon Society, as this storm of protest has proven. The So» ciety has called the attention of men prominent in the leadership of the Junior Naval Reserve to the undesirability of issuing this circular and it is to be hoped that its use will be discontinued. On the thirtieth of May the Fortnightly club of Sharon will dedicate, in Rockridge cemetery in that beautiful surburban town, the club's bird bath. The Club took up, some time ago, the plan of making the local cemetery a bird sanctuary, as recommended by the National Association of Audubon Societies. All winter long the birds were fed there and in the spring bird-houses were put out for the hole-nesting birds. The bird bath, bountifully supplied with pure water, is a gentle gracious tribute to its first president on the part of this admirably conducted woman's club. In the practical work of preserving our birds the plan to make sanctuaries of the cemeteries comes as a fine touch of idealism which helps make the good work appeal to all, and the ceremonial comes as a fitting observance on Memorial Day. There is an ever-increasing call for lectures on birds and bird-protec- tion which has this spring gone beyond the power of the Secretary of the Society, to fill personally. He has been fortunate, however, in having the assistance in the lecture field of Miss Ruth E. Rouillard of the office staff, Mrs. F. B. Goode, Local Secretary for Sharon, and Mr. Charles B. Floyd, President of the Brookline Bird Club, all of whom have filled several en- gagements most creditably. Rev. Henry Sartorio has also lectured for the Society in Italian, using lantern slides, taking for his topic "Forbidden Hunting" before the Italian 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society congregation of Christ Church, 193 Salem Street; at the North End Branch of the Public Library, North Bennett Street; the Society of Salem, 122 Salem Street; the Society of the Sons of Liberty in Roxbury and the Italian Independent Club in East Boston. Mr. Sartorio is a genial and forceful speaker and is very popular with his countrymen. At the Salem Street lecture, for instance, there was an attendance of about three hun- dred. The three travelling lectures have been constantly lent to speakers in various parts of the State, and with it all the value of birds and the need of their protection has been constantly kept before the public. Charles M. Ams, "the man who bought a town" is doing a good many different things with the northern Conneticut town which he bought. One of these is to make the place a bird sanctuary where no shooting is to be allowed and in the midst of which the National Association's Department of Applied Ornithology is carrying on unique experiments in the rearing of some species of wild ducks not hitherto bred in captivity. The breeding in captivity of wood ducks and mallards is common, but here on a marsh- bordered pond admirably adapted to the purpose are redheads, canvas- backs, pintails, and scaup, living summer and winter and with all the conveniences of any wild duck's life except the power to travel extensively. That is denied them because their wings are clipped, but they have the freedom of the pond, the swamp and some acres of good grass land where they may roam unrestrained. Preparations are well under way for adding to this interesting colony all the other species of wild ducks, and before long the little pond will be a complete museum of the wild- duck life of the continent. A special form of sheltering house has been built for these birds well out in the pond. Here, when the winter's cold bit deep and the ice was two or three feet thick on the pond, they found safe refuge, in open water, able to dive and swim as usual, the surface within the shelter never freezing. Thus the problem of sheltering these still wild birds through the winter was definitely solved. Canvasbacks have bred in captivity and it is believed that all the wild species will in this quite natural environment breed as the canvasbacks, mallards and wood ducks already do. The pond is just below the outlet of a big lake of spring water and the diving ducks feast royally whenever there is a special flow of water from above on the schools of minnows that come down with it. All the different species of wild-duck food are being planted about the pond and the place will thus be a museum, not only of duck life but of the plant life on which the birds are dependent. Mr. Job, who is in charge of the whole sanctuary, is a specialist in the breeding of wild ducks, and there is no doubt of the ultimate success of the experimental work under his man- agement. A commodious dwelling-house has been turned over to Mr. Job for the uses of the Audubon Society. There will be a museum of speci- mens, a collection of Audubon literature, and a genuine welcome to all Monthly Bulletin 7 Audubon Society members who may wish to visit the place for inspection or instruction. A comfortable hotel is being established where students or vacationists may find entertainment, and good automobile roads lead thither from all directions. It is ten miles west of Willimantic. Why not put Amston down on the list of next smnmer's places worth visiting? The spring of 1917 will long be remembered by bird-lovers as well as by gardeners as an extraordinarily backward one. A member of the Society who has kept records for thirty-seven years avers that this is by far the latest season in his experience, for birds and for vegetation. The later migrants have been very tardy in arriving, and winter residents and early migrants have lingered long beyond their usual times of departure. Juncoes, for instance, were found in Cambridge as late as May 19th, fourteen days later than the latest spring date (May 5, 1893), given in Mr. Brewster's "Birds of the Cambridge Region" (1906). An interesting occurrence this spring has been the return migration of the Labrador chickadees. The presence of these birds in numbers in Massachusetts in the late autumn and early winter was noted in the second number of this "Bulletin." Apparently most of them went farther south during the winter, but they reappeared in the spring on their way back to their northern home. One was seen in West Roxbury as late as May 18th by Mr. F. H. Allen. THE BIRD Beginners in bird study will find in the "Bird Study STUDY BOOK. Book," by T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary of the National Association of Audubon Societies, just the things they need to know, — all about equipment, field work, winter study, migration of birds, the fundamental facts of bird study and the story of the fight for bird conservation in this country. Teachers of nature study will find this book especially useful. There is a special chapter on teaching bird study in which the author writes from a wide personal experience. Mr. Pearson is one of the best-informed writers on birds in America. He is just the author to kindle enthusiasm, as making friends with the birds has been a life hobby and study. Can you answer these questions? You can if you have the "Bird Study Book." Do birds have more than one mate? Are there bird spinsters? What bird is called the outcast? Why do birds migrate? What bird has more hours of daylight than any other creature on the globe? What birds winter in your particular locality? How many birds are there in the world? The price of the "Bird Study Book" is Si. 25. It can be bought at this office and will be mailed to any address at Sl.35. The Audubon Society heartily recommends this book. Rare and Beautiful Birds ARE NOW WITH US Many of These are Figured Life Size, in Colors, in THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. The birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1917. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text: Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50, but on and after February 15th they may be had by applying to this office at $1.00 each, postpaid. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. J \ Volume I. JUNE, 1917 Number 5. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-office at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. Massachusetts Audubon Society JUNE BULLETIN. BAD WEATHER The spring, a record breaker for cold, wet weather, FOR WARBLERS. has been one of great mortality among the song-birds. In some sections, particularly those near the coast and exposed to the full sweep of the east winds, the bluebirds and tree swallows have not only failed to nest but have disappeared; many of them, without doubt, dying from lack of food. Migrants, particularly the warblers, have been found dead in great numbers. The cold perceptibly delayed the pas- sage north of many of these and the lack of familiar insects in the air and tree tops first brought them to the ground where they were easily seen and noticed by people not particularly familiar with small bird life. This was interesting and seemed to show a great increase in the number of these beautiful birds. But later came disquieting reports. The birds were not only more numerous but were very tame. People were able to pick them up in the street and on lawns. Then followed reports of dead birds in considerable numbers and of birds still alive eating most unusual food, warblers that ordinarily feed in the tree-tops consorting on dung-heaps and in barn-yards; and finally, so many reports have come of dead warblers and other small birds all over the state that it is evident that the mortality has been very great. For instance. Miss H. A. Hathaway, a teacher at North Adams, reports twenty-seven dead or dying birds brought in to her in one week. May 23rd to 30th, as follows: Warblers, — Blackburnian 2, Redstart 4, Magnolia 2, Myrtle 1, Nashville 1, Yellow 2, Maryland Yellow- throat 1, Parula 1, Canadian 1, Black-throated Blue 3, Black-throated Green 3, Chestnut-sided 2. Also, Robin 1, Chipping Sparrow 1, Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1. This is evidence of a mortality that, even if it was largely confined to the cold, high levels of the Berkshires, must have been very great. If twenty-seven were thus found within the restricted area covered by the pupils of a single city school, by what factor must we multiply to reach the total? Literally millions of these beautiful songsters must have died in our northern States because of the unseasonably cold and wet weather. If, as some learned men assert, persistent cannonading results in clouds and storm, and the European War is responsible for our extraordinarily cold and backward spring, then it is responsible also for this mortality in bird life. One more reason to speed up recruiting and purchase Liberty bonds. There are in the clouds certain rifts of sunshine, however. Many schools and small museums find difficulty in securing skins and mounted specimens of our birds for teaching purposes. These have utilized from Monthly Bulletin 3 time to time such birds as are found dead and thus slowly augmented the supply. Present conditions have given these an exceptional opportunity. Rightfully the State issues but few permits for collecting song-birds. Such permits have in the past been often abused and the number of museums where specimens may be studied is large here in Massachusetts. Birds found dead are, on the other hand, reasonably and legitimately used for tiiis purpose. Many bird-lovers who have fed the birds throughout the winter have been wise enough to keep up their feeding through these disastrously in- clement weeks and have been richly rewarded by finding unusual birds at their stations. Tanagers in particular have seemed more numerous and friendly than ever before. Mr. and Mrs. Edgar H. Hill at their fine estate in Dudley have been entertaining a pair of these at luncheon regularly. At the recent Grange Bird Day held at Dudley they were to be seen there several times during the day, eagerly eating sponge cake. The birds, com- ing about the back door, evidently hungry, had been tried out on a variety of things eaten by the other birds, but had refused them all. In some way it was discovered that they would accept sponge cake, so it was dispensed to them after that. The beautiful scarlet male, the greenish female and the yellow sponge cake made quite a color scheme. Certain birds seem endowed by nature with colors and characteristics which place them among the aristocrats of their world. Of such are the tanagers. To those who feel that they can afford it the scheme of attracting these aristocratic birds with this aristocratic diet is recommended. Hillcrest, at Dudley, is a beautiful estate of several hundred acres, peculiarly adapted by nature for a bird sanctuary, a condition which Mr. and Mrs. Hill have done much to improve with appropriate food and nesting-boxes. The orchard and shade trees all about the house have many of these, each house containing a bird family, while on the beams in the great barn are half a score of swallows' nests. Shelves have been placed in the trees for robins, and these are all occupied. The air about the place is vibrant all day long with flitting wings and with song. Such pleasure may be found in thus sanctifying and beautifying a country place that it is a wonder that all such are not made bird sanctuaries. It is not a diflScult thing to do. Put up the Audubon Society posters forbidding hunting. Drive out vermin. Put out food and water for the birds. Put up nesting- places for them. When you plant shrubbery, plant such as will feed and shelter them. Make a game of it, a fad if you will, and you will be sur- prised at the interest you will take in it all and the good returns in so many ways that will come through the increased numbers of the birds there, summer or winter. Thornton Burgess of Springfield, who writes the delightful nature stories for children, is heading a movement to make every farm a sanctuary, 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society a movement which is in line with the Avork of the Audubon Society during the past three years in which it has advised and assisted hundreds of people in this work on their estates. During the past year, for instance, nearly two thousand cloth posters have gone out from this office, to be used in posting land against hunting. Mr. Burgess has the hearty endorsement of the Massachusetts Audubon Society in his good work. PUBLIC GARDEN During migration time the Public Garden in Boston BIRDS. is an excellent place in which to view the passing migrants. Attracted by the bright lights of the city during their night flight, they concentrate for rest and food in this oasis of grass and trees with its sparkling water. There they seem to lose some of their fear of man and are readily approached. They pass, but certain summer birds remain, notably the robins. These seem much tamer in the garden than in the country and sometimes hop up and accept crumbs or peanuts tossed them. More often they search for earthworms or other food supplies common in the green sward. Watching several the other day, the writer wondered if robins are right-footed. Each bird started off with a hop or two and then ran, and as each ran he put his right foot forward first, invariably. The sparrows hopped all the time. The pigeons and grackles walked, starting with either foot indifferently. One swallow does not make a summer, and three robins do not prove the race right-footed; but it would be an interesting, if hardly important, thing to know. Another interesting bird study in the Garden is the mother black duck and her eight ducklings. The tiny fluffs, just hatched, swim and dive like ducks indeed, while their mother floats or swims leisurely, keenly watching them. On bright days the youngsters prove very definitely to the watcher that these birds are insectivorous, for they flash back and forth on the surface with amazing activity, snapping flies out of the air or off the water. Under natural conditions our wild ducks are, without doubt, of use in keep- ing down the mosquito and other insect population of the streams and marshes. BREEDING Now that spring shooting has ceased, legally ceased any- WILD FOWL, way, in Massachusetts the larger wild fowl are beginning to breed here again in greater numbers. Black and wood duck may be expected in the next few years to become more common and more tame and with the steadily increasing number of sanctuaries to steadily increase in number. Wild geese, too, are breeding again, though rather rarely as yet, within the limits of the state. Francis A. Foster reports a pair and three goslings seen on Martha's Vineyard this spring. Canada geese breed in captivity here, of counse, but these birds are wild, and reports of wild ones seen elsewhere in the state during the breeding season are occasionally received. These great birds, seen free on lake and Monthly Bulletin 5 marsh during the summer time have a picturesque value which is much greater than their value as food. If Cape Cod only knew it it would be money in its pocket to let these larger wild fowl, ducks, geese and swans, increase until the summer visitors could find them plentiful and watch them at leisure. The sight of them would bring far more money into the Cape towns than the shooting of them. Several swans, liberated by the Park Commission but semi-wild, fly and swim about the Charles River Basin this spring. No doubt some people would welcome an opportunity to shoot these. Fortunately the authorities know they are worth a hundred times more alive and free than they would be dead. Wild swans were once common along our coast in time of migration but now are practically never seen. Some years ago three appeared off Nantucket and were promptly shot. Some men with a gun seem absolutely unable to resist shooting at any large object which flies over. Balloonists and drivers of airplanes know this and, in times of peace, occasionally report that a rifle bullet has whizzed by them, sent aloft by some man who wishes them no harm but cannot resist this curious impulse. Most of us are not yet completely civilized and the desire to bag big game, latent) very likely in the best of us, comes to the surface when great birds like swans fly by. Theoretically the law protects the swan at all times, though it did not protect the three at Nantucket, and all who love the picturesque in bird life will hope that these great wild birds may again be seen and heard on our shores. The world progresses, slowly. Perhaps if three swans were now to appear off Nantucket they would not be shot but invited to remain and decoy summer visitors. They talk of mining the region about Verdun for the thousands of tons of steel scattered there by exploding shells. In the same way at certain favorable hunting points along the coast or on the margins of ponds where ducks have been shot at for generations there must be large accumulations of lead. Whether these might be profitably mined or not may be an open question, but the presence of the lead is indubitable. This has worked out in a strange way to the detriment of wild fowl down in Currituck Sound off the coast of North Carolina. This Sound is a paradise for the hunters of wild fowl, and thousands are still slain there yearly though the season is now much restricted by the Federal law. Herbert K. Job, the ornithol- ogist, reports that so large a proportion of shot is mingled with the gravel of the beaches there, in some places, that the geese which come ashore for gravel for their crops take with it a certain amount of shot. Lead is a slow poison and the birds that thus eat it die of lead-poisoning after a time, being found floating about the Sound in all stages of paralysis. It might be too much to ask the hunters to shoot an antidote with their lead but it seems a pity to lose the birds by poison after they have escaped the direct action of the gun. 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society LARGE BIRD SANCTUARY Omaha, Nebr., has a new 500-acre bird AT OMAHA. sanctuary, which was dedicated on June 17, 1916, by the presentation of Percy Mackaye's bird-masque 'Sanctuary.' AN ENGLISH BEQUEST Captain Lord Lucas of the R. F. C, a former FOR THE BIRDS. president of the British Board of Agriculture, who was killed in France last November, bequeathed to the Hon. L G. Grenfell lands in Norfolk to be kept as a preserve for rare birds and provided an annuity of £250 to carry out this purpose. PROTECTION OF Despite its rapid spread and its destructiveness the THE STARLING. starling is still on the protected list of several of the States in which it is now found, though it is likely that other States will soon follow the lead of Vermont, Connecticut, New York, and Massachusetts in denying it legal protection. In Australia and New Zealand it has developed into a serious pest. Its beneficial services in destroying insects, which are considerable, have proved to be a greatly insufficient offset to its destruction of fruit. BIRD SANCTUARY Steps are being taken to make a bird sanctuary of AT RADFORD, VA. the grounds of the State Normal School at Rad- ford, Va. Among the shrubs and trees recently planted to furnish food, shelter, and nesting sites for birds are crab-apple, dogwood, black gum, cedar, service-berry, beech, black haw, thorn-berry, wild rose, hackberry, sumac, elder, and native and Russian mulberries. A NEW BIRD Bare Island, in Haro Strait (which separates SANCTUARY IN Vancouver Island from the mainland), is the BRITISH COLUMBIA. breeding home of a large colony of gulls, guillemots, cormorants, and puffins, and harbors many geese during autumn and winter. It has recently been constituted a bird sanctuary and the Provincial Museum at Victoria, an active Canadian agent for bird protection, has been made its legal guardian. PROPOSED BIRD Illinois and Utah are undertaking to establish SANCTUARIES IN a largely increased number of bird and game ILLINOIS AND UTAH. sanctuaries within their respective boundaries. The Illinois plan is to lease for the nominal sum of one dollar apiece a hundred tracts of 1,000 to 5,000 acres each, plant and leave standing various kinds of grain on five acres of each tract and construct brush-heap shelters with gravel and sand inside. Utah proposes to set aside in all 250,000 to 350,000 acres and maintain in every county of the State two sanctuaries — one for birds only and one for upland birds, game birds, and mammals. M onthly B ull etin 7 APPRECIATION. That the Audubon Bird Charts are appreciated is shown by many letters from various parts of the country, of which the following is a fair sample: Dear Sir: Please find draft for $3.00 for which please send Bird Charts No. 2 and No. 3. We have No. 1. There is nothing in our library that has given half the pleas- ure the chart No, 1 has given to the little folks as well as the grown-ups. Respectfully, Julia Andrae, Librarian. Free Public Library, Jefferson City, Mo. ODD ITEM! The following was clipped from a Boston paper under the heading of "Odd Items from Everywhere": An owl was shot by Anthony Fisher during the services at St. Ann's church at Fremont, 0. When the congregation assembled the big bird was perched over the altar, but before the services closed it flew to a rear window over the choir loft. Fisher, with a shot gun, took aim and brought the bird down with the first shot. Services then continued. In the name of goodness, what sort of a place is Fremont, Ohio? BIRD NOTES. Edward C. Porter of Arlington reports several red-headed woodpeckers seen this spring in the Fells. Miss Viola Crittenden of Beverly reports a junco on June 9th, a record for lateness for a migrating bird. It is of course possible that this is a breeding bird, as j uncos have been known to breed in Essex County. Up on Wachusett and the higher land of northern Worcester County j uncos breed regularly. In the Berkshires last winter j uncos appeared in such large flocks that some people were alarmed lest they become a pest, like the starlings. The remarkable increase in the abundance of Tennessee and Cape May warblers in the spring migration is affording observers in eastern Massa- chusetts much satisfaction. This increase has been going on for several years but first became marked in 1915. This year they have been moi^ numerous than ever, and they can no longer be classed as rare birds. Indeed the Tennessee warbler bids fair to become one of our commonest spring warblers, while the Cape May, though less abundant, is by no means uncommon. The latter is one of the most beautiful of its family. The Tennessee is plain in color and rather difficult to observe, but when once its insistent song has been learned its presence is easily detected. Rare and Beautiful Birds ARE NOW WITH US Many of These are Figured Life Size, in Colors, in THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. I'he birds are shown hfe size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of SI. 50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1917. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $L50, but on and after February 15th they li.ay be had by applying to this office at $1.00 each, postpaid. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. OCTOBER, 1917 Number 6. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-oflBce at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. 2 Massachusetts Audubon Society AN ALBINO BIRD A bird-lover writes as follows from Stockbridge, Mass. "One day last month I saw a bird entirely strange to me. I thought it perhaps an albino but my brother (who has a summer home in Pittsfield) has seen the same bird. "I could not find it among the birds in Audubon, or in any other bird book which we have. When I first saw it it was taking a bath in the gutter of the piazza roof, just outside my window. Then it hopped on to the edge of said roof and stood there with its feathers all fluffed out so that I could not see its shape very distinctly, but its general color was a pale cream white. It was about the size of a catbird and had one or two dark feathers in its tail and in the ends of its wings. On its shoulder it had two bright blue spots, such as might be made by a small child with painty fingers. My brother says that the few darker feathers in wings and tail were blue. I did not see its breast as it stood for most of the time with its back to me. Its head and bill were about the shape of a robin's or a catbird's. "I have spent my summers here for fifty odd years and have never seen any bird in the least resembling it. I am well aware that the description is rather vague, but I watched the bird for about ten minutes, when it flew away and I have never seen it since." There is little doubt that this bird was an albino bluebird. Albinos appear frequently among our common birds, being, perhaps, most commonly noted among English sparrows and robins. The white blackliird of tradition appears occasionally, a correspondent in the last issue of "Bird-Lore" from Lincoln, Neb., writing thus of them. "About noon one day the middle of this month, my friend, Mrs. Pound, heard an unusual fussing among the birds in her back yard. Her home is right in town, not more than three blocks from the business section, but she has a lot of trees, shrubs, and flowers in the back yard. "Coming out, she found four of the ordinary Bronzed Crackles in one of the trees, and one exactly like the others except that he had two white feathers, one on either side of the tail, about the middle. The other grackles were not fighting him especially, but were very evidently curious and anxious to find out about the strange bird, and all of them, including the white- feathered one, kept repeating their metallic calls with rather more emphasis than usual. "We have seen entirely white or albino grackles in the outskirts of town but this is the first reported around here having just the two white feathers in the tail." A pure white barn swallow is reported in the same issue as having been seen in July, 1916, at Crown Point, N. Y. Probably every bird observer in cities has seen sparrows with more or less white on them. One was seen on Boston Common, on the northern bank M onthly B ull etin 3 of the frog pond on September 24th, white from the nape of its neck to the tip of the tail, which was dark. The other markings were those of a this year's young bird. R. B. Williams, of Dover, Mass., reports that of twenty-five bird-houses in his orchard this summer all but one were occupied, an excellent thing both for the birds and for the orchard. CITY BIRDS The wealth of bird life in Maine, always a great at- OF MAINE traction to thousands of summer visitors, is becoming recognized as an asset to the State, perhaps as great as the fish and game which so attract the hunters and fishermen during the open season. A recent issue of the "Lewiston Journal" thus refers to the birds on one estate in that city. "Some idea of the wealth of bird life within a stout stone's throw of the home of Mrs. George N. Coates, of Lewiston, may be obtained from her statement that this season 19 different varieties of birds have nested within this distance. Moreover, 40 nests of one variety — the bank swallow — nested within this area, in old sand-banks in front of and behind her home. "Mrs. Coates enumerates them thus: "The oriole, Maryland yellow-throat, yellow warbler, kingfisher, blue- bird, tree swallow, English sparrow, house wren, red-eyed vireo, warbling vireo, kingbird, phebe, wood pewee, bank swallow, veery or Wilson thrush, robin, chebec, brown thrasher and flicker. " 'The fact that so many birds nested in this spot,' said Mrs. Coates, 'is the more interesting in view of the statement of the biological survey that seven nests to a half acre is the average. Of course the sand-bank, the proximity of the woods near the cemetery and the closeness to the river account for the extraordinary showing.' "Mrs. Coates has taken special delight in the increase in the number of house wrens in Lewiston this year. In previous seasons four or five pairs were all that were known in the two cities. Of this bird the Bureau of Agri- culture says that a pair are worth $39 to a farmer every season, because of the destruction they bring to insects which damage crops. Inasmuch as the house wren raises two broods every year they are likely to become mors and more numerous here. " 'One pair of the house wrens decided to build in a birch nesting place in the Coates yard, where sparrows had left the box in filth and confusion. Never did a couple of humans do a more thorough job at house cleaning than did this pair of house wrens. But I had the fun of watching the ire of the mother bird after we had set up a hammock under the trees in the yard. She was indignant and fearful and in spite of the evident protesta- tions of her hubby, she began to pull out the nesting material already gath- 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society ered. Scolding away incessantly Mrs, Wren would take a feather in her beak and pull it out of the box and drop it overboard despite the remon- strances of Mr. Wren. But he kept on singing to her and finally, half molli- fied, she was persuaded to continue the nest in that box, probably because she saw that no one used the hammock who at all disturbed the birds. My observation next day showed that all the feathers she had brought out had been carried back into the box and domestic life was again peaceful with the Wren family.' " 'Wrens,' Mrs. Coates went on to say, 'have the peculiarity of beginning to build their second nest before the young are flown from the first. She saw one of the pairs of house wrens near her house begin to build their second nest while their three little ones were still in the old nest and they were yet feeding them diligently.' " On September 7th four snowy egrets were seen in a marsh in the town of Harwich by a summer resident who approached them by canoe within some thirty yards and was able to watch them for some time. The report is from a competent observer. The June "Bulletin" recorded the presence of a junco in Beverly on Jime 9th, a record for that vicinity. Mr. Horace Taylor, of the Brookline Bird Club, has since reported juncos seen in Winchester and in Arlington, Mass., on the estate of Samuel J. Elder, during the week beginning July 1st. Mr. Taylor thought them to be breeding. FROM R. W. Merrick, Executive Secretary of the Committee QUINCY, MASS. on Food Production, Quincy, Mass., sends the follow- ing interesting notes under date of August 27: "Last year the rose-breasted grosbeaks were very nmnerous here; so were potato bugs. This year almost no potato bugs, also very few grosbeaks. Whether this just happened so, or whether they were wise enough to know that bugs were going to be short and moved to other places, I do not know, but the fact remains that I have seen or heard but few of the birds this year. "The Baltimore orioles have been unusually numerous, and for the last few days those around my house have been singing a good deal, not the full spring song, but much more than they ordinarily do at this season of the year. "The black and white creeping warblers have been more numerous than I have ever before seen them. A pair of white-breasted nuthatches nested somewhere just back of my house. "On June 17, I saw down on the Marshfield marshes a great white heron, and I understood at the time that he had been around there for some little time. He surely made a striking feature as he walked across the marsh. "There is one interesting point about birds returning to the same place Monthly Bulletin 5 year after year that I would like to speak of. On the estate of Mr. F. B. Rice there was a large purple grackle last year which had only one leg. Hd fed around on the lawns a great deal and they were quite interested in him. This year when the birds began to come back, they were wondering if they would ever see anything of him again, when one day looking out they found him hopping around on the lawn just as he had been the year before. He was one of the first grackles to return from the South." EVENING Rev. Manley B. Townsend, State Secretary of the New GROSBEAKS Hampshire Audubon Society, is keeping sharp watch of the coming and going of the evening grosbeaks in that State. Reference has been made in a previous niunber of the Bulletin to the report of one of these birds spending the summer in New Hampshire, or at least being seen there by Emma Johnson, of Nashua, about the middle of August. Apropos of that Mr. Townsend writes in "Bird-Lore," "Has Not the Prairie Horned Lark worked eastward until it has reached New Hamp- shire and become a permanent resident? If we can hold the grosbeaks at our food stations late enough in the spring, perhaps the breeding instinct will seize upon them before the migrating instinct, and they might remain and breed. The coniferous forests of northern New England offer ideal nest- ing facilities." In support of this interesting theory Mr. Townsend sends the following letter: "Rev. Manley B. Townsend, "Dear Sir: — Your article concerning the evening grosbeak in New Hampshire, published in the July-August number of 'Bird-Lore,' brings to mind some observations of my own. "In the upper peninsula of Michigan where I formerly lived, the evening grosbeak was common nearly every winter. Flocks remained as late as the middle of May. Aug. 18, 1912, seven were seen. Aug. 10, 1913, two were seen. "In 1911 they remained in numbers as late as May 18. On July 16 a number of adults, also some young birds, were seen. One was seen Sept. 7. "Very truly yours, "RALPH BEEBE, "600 Hilger Avenue, "Aug. 20, 1917. "Detroit, Mich." One is often struck by the readiness birds show to take advantage of opportunities. The Billings Field Playground in West Roxbury was flooded by heavy rains in August and early September, and, sewer construction interfering with the drainage, a pond of perhaps three or four acres in extent 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society was formed which remained there for a few weeks before it decreased ma- terially in size. Migratory solitary sandpipers soon found it and haunted its grassy shores day after day. On September 16th as many as twelve or fifteen or these birds were seen there, though the pond had then dwindled to only about half an acre. It is, of course, very unusual to find so many solitary sandpipers in so small a space. Though the company was large, each bird retained his solitary habits and fed and flitted along the shares apparently regardless of his neighbors. BIRD PICTURES The Boston Evening Transcript has the following to say of the bird pictures painted by R. A. Quimby, some of which are on view at the office of the Massachusetts Audubon Society. Others are on exhibition for an indefinite time at the Boston City Club. Mr. R. A. Quimby, civil engineer and landscape architect, has an inter- esting hobby aside from his professional work — the painting of pictures of birds. He has devoted himself to the study of birds of all kinds from his youthful days to the present time, and paints them in watercolors and in oils, always making his studies directly from life. His series of watercolor studies of ducks of the innumerable different kinds that abound in this part of America is quite remarkable. Their plumage, with its textures and colors, he renders with great success; and their movements, the characteristic action of the birds, in flight, in walking, in swimming and in the incessant search for food, are no less noteworthy for faithfulness and realism. Mr. Quimby is also a landscape painter in his leisure moments, and he has made a large number of smallish panels in the vicinity of his home in Dorchester which are many of them excellent pictures, without any trace of the " 'prentice hand." Mr. Quimby's office is in the Exchange Building, State Street. BIRD LIFE The following interesting account of the birds of ON "THE the Balkans comes from a British soldier serving EAST FRONT" in the trenches. It refers particularly to the region about Salonika. "What a paradise for the student of natural history is this apparently so desolate expanse of plain and mountain, but especially for the observer of birds! Every change in the wind brings us the trumpeting of vast hordes of grey lag-geese echeloning in flight against the morning sky. The variety of wild fowl approaches the teeming swarms of the Danube marshes, and but for the ceaseless depredations of the numerous eagles, buzzards, falcons and harriers, observation would yield even better results. "Mallard, widgeon (slightly larger and darker than the British species), golden-eye, teal, pochard, and tree-duck are common, also two ducks which I cannot identify. Size slightly less than the shoveller, ruddy brown. Monthly Bulletin 7 tufted head in the male, sooty grey plumage and flamingo pink on the under- side of the wings; female, no crest and rusty brown plumage. The distinc- tive feature of the male is a bright vermilion and serrated bill, which is drab color in the female. "Another bird which puzzles me is slightly larger than the teal: a fish- eater with a merganser's bill; the male is a beautifully marked white bird with characteristic black bars round the base of the neck and a typically harlequin crest; the female has no crest, but a ruddy brown head and neck. It has duck's plumage and is not a grebe. Is there such a small merganser? The common merganser is a daily visitor to the lake, as is also the dabchick. "On ploughed land the Calandra lark is frequently seen, with a black- throated tree lark; and all our English finches are represented. Of soft- billed birds, robins, blackbirds, and song thrushes inhabit all sheltered spots, whilst the ravines are peopled with dippers, grey and yellow wagtails, and the interesting sedge warblers and bearded tits. "In the cultivated valley the common partridge and French partridge abound. Blue Rock pigeons are plentiful. Wood-pigeons are rarely seen. Woodcocks come in with the north wind in considerable numbers. "The black vulture is seen frequently in the vicinity of old camping grounds, besides the golden eagle and Bonelli's eagle. Montagu harriers are common, as well as marsh and glen harriers; Peregrine falcons are com- paratively scarce; buzzards take heavy toll of mallards at dawn and dusk. The great white heron, the squacco, the night and grey herons, the white egret, and bittern are found in all the Doiran marshes; cormorants and shags are familiar denizens of the waterways and have as companion one little king- fisher. "Perhaps no list would be complete without reference to our useful scavenging bird friends, which include magpies, jackdaws, rooks, carrion and hoodie crows, and ravens. Every oak ravaged by borer-worms or weather acts as host to a whole tribe of little owls. I counted thirty-two flying out of a tree in a wood near the lake. Screech and long-eared owls are the con- stant companions of our night-posts. Of lesser birds of prey the kestrel, hobby, and sparrowhawk, and of medium size the kite, are perhaps worthy of mention; whilst the smallest and most mischievous is the great grey shrike — familiar figure on telegraph post or tamarisk bush. "It is remarkable how little all our feathered friends — who help to make our life so much more endurable up here — are affected even by the barrage fire or artillery. They re-occupy their usual haunts quite calmly as soon as the fire lifts." CHRISTMAS GIFTS What can be better for students and bird-lovers than a set of the beautiful colored charts of birds, life size, known as THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common, llie birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $L50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1918. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50. Copies will be mailed free to any desired address on receipt of the price. The calendars make desirable Christmas gifts to Bird Students, and the collection of bird pictures in colors thus obtained from year to year is unique and valuable. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. NOVEMBER, 1917 Number 7. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-ofEce at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. 2 Massachusetts Audubon Society IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT The Directors acknowledge gratefully the receipt of a legacy of two thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars from the estate of Mrs. Polly Hollingsworth. The sum was immediately placed in the Reserve Fund of the Society, a use of the money which has peculiar value because of its permanence. The altruistic work of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, carried on for many years with increasing success, suggests the desirability of remem- bering it in this fashion. All the funds of the Society are handled carefully and conservatively, but the Reserve Fund, in the exclusive control of the Board of Directors, is especially worthy of the consideration of testators who wish to make legacies of lasting usefulness. There will always be need of organized work for bird protection, a form of conservation of the greatest importance to the general welfare. The Reserve Fund of the Society, when of sufficient size, will insure this. Can you not help in this way? FORM OF BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Incorpor- ated, the sum of Dollars for its Reserve Fund. AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION. The American Ornithologists' Union extends a cordial invitation to all interested in birds to attend its thirty-fifth Annual Meeting, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, November 13th, 14th and 15th, at the University Museum, Oxford Street, Cambridge, Mass. There will be both morning and afternoon sessions, at 10:00 and 2:30. This Annual Meeting of the Union brings together the principal ornithologists of America. At this season most of the expeditions have returned from the field, and results in the shape of lantern-slides and motion-pictures are used to illustrate many papers. Those who have attended these meetings rarely miss them if they can help it. The Union will not come to Cambridge again for many years. This is a good opportunity to become acquainted with the great work being done by scientific bird students, not only here in America, but throughout the world. There will be an opportunity for any who wish to make application for membership in the Union; the Annual Dues ($3.00) include a subscription to the Auk, the principal bird magazine published in America. Applications for membership may be made at any time to Mr. E. H. Forbush, State Ornithologist, Room 136, State House, Boston. M onthly B ulletin 3 JUNIOR AUDUBON CLASSES. Experts believe that the Junior Audubon Class work now so extensive throughout the country is the most important work for bird protection which is being done in any land. Last year the total enrollment throughout the country was 11,935 classes — 261,654 children in all. This is a great in- crease over the numbers enrolled the previous year, and is 50,000 greater than the total enrollment of the whole first four years of the work. The "banner" State last year was New York, with 41,514 children hard at work. Massachusetts materially increased its enrollment, listing 10,802 children. This year, with new sets of leaflets and new opportunities for both teachers and scholars, it is believed that the work will show a still greater increase. The classes are not necessarily confined to school-children and teachers of the public schools. Any person interested in bird work may organize such a class, receive Bird-Lore free, and have the satisfaction of being an active agent in this great educational work. There is an especial opportunity for the conservation committees of women's clubs to take charge of this work in their own localities. Further information in regard to this opportunity may be had by addressing the office of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 66 Newbury Street, Boston. FEED THE BIRDS. The time of year is at hand when the feeding of our wild birds becomes not only a pleasant avocation, a help to students of bird life, but also a patriotic duty. The past year has shown us all how needful it is that food should be conserved in every possible way. We understand as never before how the farmer or the gardener who works even in a small way is bnefiting the entire country by making two food plants grow where only one grew before. In this work the birds are of great value as assistant gardeners. To conserve our bird life, therefore, is to conserve and increase our food supply. Feeding the birds in winter is effective war work. It should begin right away and be kept up until the warm weather returns. Miss Minna B. Hall reports that for two seasons a pair of black duck have bred on her Brookline estate. The place is, of course, a sanctuary, and is especially attractive to birds because of a small marsh-margined pond and a brook on one part of it. This year seven ducklings were hatched there. Pheasants nested there also, and either there or in the im- mediate vicinity were nests of meadowlark, crows, grackles, blue jays, robins and starlings. This is a good example of the value to bird life of even a small sanctuary surrounded by almost urban conditions. 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society INCREASING MEMBERSHIP. During the months of September and October the following new mem- bers were received: Life Members. Mrs. J. Malcolm Forbes 280 Adams Street, Milton, Mass. Mrs. E. S. Grew 185 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Mrs. Arthur W. Hartt 162 Goddard Ave., Brookline, Mass. Mrs. Frank C. Paine Nahant, Mass. Mrs. Elbridge Torrey 1 Melville Ave., Dorchester, Mass. Mr, William Whitman 78 Chauncy Street, Boston, Mass. Sustaining Members. Aldrich, Miss Lilian 441 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Bates, Arlo 4 Otis Place, Boston, Mass. Blanchard, William Tyngsboro, Mass. Codman, Mrs. J. M 362 Walnut Street, Brookline, Mass. Ellis, Mrs. George M 27 West Baltimore Street, Lynn, Mass. Ellis, Mrs. Shirley V 243 Chatham Street, Lynn, Mass. Fearing, Mrs. George R., Jr 168 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Forbes, Mrs. F. M Wellesley, Mass. Frothingham, Channing, Jr 395 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Frothingham, Mrs. F. E 9 Braemore Road, Brookline, Mass. Garfield, Mr. I. M. D 30 State Street, Boston, Mass. Graves, Miss Alice 244 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Hoar, Mr. and Mrs. John Concord, Mass. Holbrook, Mrs. F Naulalika, Brattleboro, Vt. Jones, Mr. Henry Champion 30 Walker Street, Cambridge, Mass. Kinnicutt, Lincoln N 72 Cedar Street, Worcester, Mass. Lane, Mrs. G. M 53 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Lincoln, Mrs. Arthur 186 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, Mass. Lyman, Herbert Brush Hill Road, Readville, Mass. Mason, Mrs. Herbert C 15 Centre Street, Brookline, Mass. Morison, Mr. S. E Concord, Mass. Morville, Robert W., Jr 221 Chestnut Ave., Jamaica Plain, Mass. Parker, Mrs. Charles H 1056 Beacon Street, Brookline, Mass. Peabody, Mrs. Mary E 384 Prospect Street, Lawrence, Mass. Pearmain, Mrs. Sumner B 388 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Poor, James R 291 Buckminster Road, Brookline, Mass. Ropes, James H 13 Follen Street, Cambridge, Mass. Sargent, Mrs. William E 15 Circle Street, Marblehead, Mass. Sherburne, Kenneth 363 Marlborough Street, Boston, Mass. Spencer, Henry G 2 Craigie Street, Cambridge, Mass. Stetson, Mrs. E. D 81 Cottage Street, New Bedford, Mass. Storey, Moorfield 24 Fenway, Boston, Mass. Toppan, Mrs. R. W Box 113, Boston, Mass. Ward, Charles W 67 Colchester Street, Brookline, Mass. Warren, Mrs. Bentley W.. 185 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Whitman, Loring Simsbury, Connecticut. Williams, Elizabeth A Hotel Charlesgate, Boston, Mass. Windom, Florence B 9 Chestnut Street, Boston, Mass. Wood, Mrs. W. B 215 Canton Ave., Milton, Mass. Monthly Bulletin 5 The Society welcomes these new members and will be glad to have them make use of the office in all matters pertaining to bird study and bird protection. ITEMS. Crackles nested in a bird-house of the type made by E. C. Ware of Wareham in one of the Worcester city parks last year. The house was at the top of a flexible pole. * « * * ♦ The value of gulls as scavengers is shown in the fact that thousands of them are reported to have worked all last winter for the health authori- ties of Green Bay, Wisconsin, disposing of the waste from fisheries at the rate of a wagon-load in three minutes. It may be that gulls are to be useful in detecting lurking submarines. At least a Brooklyn inventor proposes their use for this. His plan is to educate the gulls of our Atlantic seaboard by having submarines feed them frequently at sea, both from the surface and by releasing floating food from the depths. The gulls, thus learning that a submarine, when sighted above water or below, means food for them will henceforth flock above any sub- marine and thus reveal its presence. Gulls in their constant search for floating food cover vast stretches of sea and can detect a submarine at a considerable depth. It may be that with the geese that saved Rome will some day be immortalized the gulls that saved the Allies from the German menace, and it may be not. The idea is an interesting one, at any rate. AN INTERESTING ROBIN. Editor, Bulletin: Dear Sir: — It may interest your readers to know that for three succes- sive seasons I had about my home, 25 Bellevue Avenue, Melrose, a robin which had had his toes on one foot entirely shot off", so that all he had was about two inches of a straight leg. It was very comical to see him endeavor to pull earth worms out of the ground, for the strnnp of his leg would slip into the soft dirt, and he would tip way over on one side. We fed him continually, and I think that is the reason why he probably stayed about the flower garden so closely. It is also rather interesting to note that for two years this robin raised a family in a box we provided for him. Truly yours, Franklin P. Shumway. 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society AS THE CROWS FLY. Mr. Edward Marsh, of Dedham, sends us the following very interesting account of a great flight of crows: Thursday, the first day of November of this year, I was motoring late in the afternoon just south of Marlboro and north of Nobscot Hill, in the vicinity of the Metropolitan Water Works system which comes down between the hills in that section. As I came upon one of the long ponds, I looked down it several miles across to the country far beyond and saw literally thousands of crows headed to the northwest of Marlboro across this pond, and for miles from the opposite direction, northeasterly, came more crows in thousands. . . . After motoring some miles down the road I saw more of them coming from Nobscot Hill and Framingham, and as we went in a southwesterly direction I saw more still coming. At first I thought the crows were having a fall convention, and decided they must have come impelled by some mysterious impulse from all sections of the country, so vast was the flock. Upon stopping and talking with a farmer in that neighborhood, I learned that this thing has been going on for years in that section, and he said that the sky was black with them morning and night. They apparently come out of the northwest in the morning and flood the low lands to the south in the same manner that the Huns are doing on foreign soil, and I imagine in their way commit as serious depredation. This is the first experience of the kind I have ever had in New England, and I have been pretty well over it at all seasons of the year, and have seen small flocks and several hundreds together, but nothing like this, and to learn that this was a normal and natural flocking morning and night to the fields of plunder and back to their roosts was a very interesting piece of news, and I forward it to you for such use as you may make of it. Perhaps you may have seen the same thing take place in this section. It certainly would be interesting to me to know if you, or any of our mem- bers, have seen such a sight or had such an experience hereabouts. BIRDS HAVE CANCER. Mr. A. W. Morse, Local Secretary for Hudson, sends the following very interesting item: A few days ago Miss Learned presented me with a nice specimen of White Throated Sparrow which she found dead on her porch. In skinning the bird I found on one leg near the knee a yellowish something on the muscles, then another on muscle of wing near shoulder, and still another at base of beak between eyes. I became suspicious and consulted my neigh- bor, who is an M. D., and he pronounced it a typical case of "Sarcoma," a quick-acting form of cancer identical with the one found in the human body at times. About two weeks ago Miss Learned gave me an olive-backed thrush. A friend found it on the road. Both mandibles were broken just in front of the eyes. I have seen many birds during past few years in very much the same condition. There is no doubt in my mind that all these birds were killed by wires. It would not be interesting — it would be discouraging — if we knew the number of birds killed by wires annually. M onthly B ull e tin 7 OUR GRAY SQUIRREL IN ENGLAND. That our gray squirrel, imported, is not liked in England may be gathered from letters written to various papers there concerning the animal. Its tendency to drive away or destroy other small animals, particularly birds, not always marked here, seems to be accentuated there. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds thus refers to it: The doom of the gray North American squirrel has been pronounced by Sir Frederick Treves in the Observer, backed by Sir Harry Johnston in the Weekly Despatch, and also by Mr. W. H. Hudson in the Devon and Exeter Gazette. It is undoubtedly an attractive little creature to the multi- tude owing to its tameness, and when first liberated in London parks it became a speedy favorite. But unhappily it soon spread to places like Kew Gardens and Richmond Park, where our fascinating native red squirrel has its rightful home, and the small native disappeared before the bigger and stronger alien. "Where he establishes himself," writes Mr. Hudson, who found the gray species liberated in the Rougemont Gardens at Exeter, "he exterminates the small wild bird life in the woods and hedges, as he greedily devours the eggs and fledglings and tears down the nests." "It may be a pretty thing to see him taking peanuts from the hands of little children," adds Mr. Hudson; "and it may be amusing to see him chase off the robins that (in spite of Lord Devonport) try for their expected share of visitors' crumbs in the Park; but his misdemeanors among bird and plant life, as well as his mastery of his daintier cousin, have brought upon him notice to quit." The English red squirrel is a gentle, friendly little chap and should not be confused with our American red squirrel, which is a weasel-like creature, far more destructive to the lives of birds and other small creatures than the gray. WAR AND THE OSTRICH. The stringent laws prohibiting the use of the plumage of certain wild birds as ornaments resulted a few years ago in a great revival of interest in ostrich plumes and the industry of ostrich raising soon assumed import- ance, especially in South Africa, where abundant pasturage for the big birds was available. So great was the demand for ostrich feathers that breeding ostriches sold for as much as S500 per pair, and white feathers brought as much as $120 to $140 per pound in the market at Cape Town. Now, according to consular reports, the industry is sadly waning. The most perfect, selected white feathers are a drug in the market at from $30 to $60 per pound. As the result, many of the great South African ostrich farmers will be ruined. But this is only the result of the changing fashions, which, in this instance, are probably largely influenced by the war. CHRISTMAS GIFTS What can be better for students and bird-lovers than a set of the beautiful colored charts of birds, life size, known as THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. I'he birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, ^1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1918. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text: Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50. Copies will be mailed free to any desired address on receipt of the price. The calendars make desirable Christmas gifts to Bird Students, and the collection of bird pictures in colors thus obtained from year to year is unique and valuable. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. DECEMBER, 1917 Number 8. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-ofBce at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, Vr-ill keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birds throughout the world. Subscription price, one dollar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. 2 Massachusetts Audubon Society A CHRISTMAS SUGGESTION. The Bulletin of the Massachusetts Audubon Society goes with every sustaining membership. The two together make an admirable gift to anyone interested in birds. The cost is but a dollar yearly for both. Such a gift is really a double one, for you could make no more welcome Christmas present to the Audubon Society than a new member. More members are greatly needed, too, first for the moral support which is of great value, second for the increased income which the annual membership dues repre- sent. Opportunities for good work for bird protection increase far more rapidly than our income. Many of them have to be deferred each year on this account. The Society's stocking will hang in the chimney-corner this month and we hope to find it full of assorted new members on Christmas morning. Just one new one from each of you would put us so bravely on our feet! NEW MEMBERS. The following were added to our membership list during November: Life Member J. T. Coolidge, 106 Beacon Street, Boston, Mass. Sustaining Members Brown, L. S., 317 Main Street, Springfield Buffington, Mrs. E. D., 33 Chestnut Street, Springfield Burnham, Roy R., 78 Devonshire Street, Boston Codman, Hugh, South Lincoln Cummings, Benjamin, 411 County Street, New Bedford Dawes, Henry L., Pittsfield Delano, Mrs. W. 0., 41 Washington Street, Newton Gardener, W. R., 104 Bartlett Avenue, Pittsfield Gardner, Mrs. George P., Southboro Green, Mrs. S. M., 325 Long Hill, Springfield Hawkins, Wm. H., The Oaks, 31 Thompson Street, Springfield Martin, A. E., 325 City Hall, Court Street, Springfield Mason, Miss Ida M., 1 Walnut Street, Boston Morehouse, Mrs. Martha A., 25 Thorndike Street, Brookline Pierce, Otis N., 9P> Cottage Street, New Bedford Pike, William A., Pittsfield Stoddard, Mrs. Wm. P., 53 Main Street, Plymouth Stone, F. L., 20 Taconic Street, Pittsfield Sturgis, Mrs. Edward, 241 Adams Street, Milton Sullivan, Edward T., Plummers, Whitinsville Taber, Frederic H., New Bedford The Society heartily welcomes these new members and offers them all possible service and co-operation in all things pertaining to birds. The office with its steadily growing exhibition of bird-protection material, bird books and literature is open to all from nine until five daily, and members are expected to use it freely. The office staff stands ready to help at any time to solve bird problems of whatever nature. Monthly Bulletin 3 RECEPTION TO LOCAL SECRETARIES. On Friday, November 23, the Directors gave a luncheon and reception to the Local Secretaries of the Society. The office was tastefully decorated with flowers and evergreens, and a salad luncheon was served from one to two. Mr. Forbush, President of the Society, spoke a word of greeting and gave a very brief but effective address on methods of teaching bird-study. The Secretary then called for a word from each one present, and the time until adjournment at four o'clock was taken by these most informative talks and the discussions which they suggested. Other things had been planned for the afternoon, but the "experience meeting" was found so interesting and instructive that there was no time for anything else. It has already borne fruit in increased activities on the part of many of those pres- ent. Nineteen Local Secretaries, four special guests, and six Directors were present, as follows: Edward Howe Forbush, President; Winthrop Packard, Secretary-Treas- urer; Mrs. Hemenway, Miss Hall, Miss Richards, Mr. Bent, Directors; Dr. Mary F. Hobart (Needham), Rev. R. F. Cheney (Southboro), Miss Annie W. Cobb (Arlington), Mrs. George W. Kaan (Brookline), guests; and Rev. Albert E. Hylan (Medfield), Mrs. James A. Stiles (Gardner), Mrs. J. L. Sanborn (Haverhill), Miss Alexina Burgess (Wareham), Miss Sarah E. Lakeman (Ipswich), Miss Amie Sumner (Canton), Mrs. F. B. Goode (Sharon), Miss Cora E. Dike (Stoneham), Miss Mary L. Garfield (Fitch- burg), Miss Mabel A. Tilton (Vineyard Haven), Miss Clara Eaton (North Middleboro), Mrs. J. F. Stevens (Wollaston), Mr. A. W. Morse (Hudson), Dr. H. L. Babcock (Dedham), Mrs. A. W. Higgins (Sandwich), Mrs. Frank L. Hayden (Holbrook), Miss M. M. Hunt (Weymouth), Mrs. Ira G. Dudley (Berlin), Miss Genenia Kimball (North Wilmington), all Local Secretaries. Much of the success of the meeting was due to the effective planning and arrangements of the Committee in charge, Miss Hall and Miss Richards. THE A. 0. U. MEETING. Many members of our Society attended the open meetings of the American Ornithologists' Union held in the University Museum, Cambridge, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, November 13th, 14th and 15th. There were morning and afternoon sessions, many of the papers presented were accompanied by lantern-slides or motion-pictures, and all were found thor- oughly enjoyable and instructive. Speaking broadly, the bird-protection and bird-study societies so numerous throughout the country today all had their origin either directly in the membership of the A. 0. U. or in ideas that emanated from it, and it is therefore the godfather of us all. Its work today touches all phases of bird life and it is a power for good in science and economics. 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society CLOSED SEASON ON GAME BIRDS. The close of the hunting season on upland gamebirds here in Massachu- setts brings much anxiety among sportsmen as to the stock of ruffed grouse left in the coverts, an anxiety which is certainly shared by all who are interested in birds, whether sportsmen or not. A record scarcity of these splendid birds is reported all over New England. George F. Morse, Jr., Secretary of the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association, calls attention to it in a striking article in the Boston Herald. He says, "The ruffed grouse may be justly termed the 'King of New England Game Birds.' How he has survived all the trials for life he has been put to is a great cause of wonder. Although he is still with us, we cannot help but realize that the time is coming, and is not far distant, when he will require the protection of the establishment of more, better managed, and permanent sanctuaries if we wish to assure to future generations of sportsmen the pleasure and excitement of his presence in our woods." Other sportsmen suggest that the time to protect this bird adequately is at hand. For instance, the Maine State Game Warden has recently called attention to the present absolute dearth of partridges in Maine and says that he believes that when the Maine Legislature again convenes it will place a closed season on this bird for a term of years. The West has already waked up to similar conditions and is applying the only effective remedy in many of the states. For instance: In 1917 Utah enacted laws protecting all upland game birds by closed seasons for some years. Idaho completely protects quail for three years and sage grouse for five. Nevada gives her upland game birds five years of rest. Oklahoma does the same. Iowa has a five-year closed season for prairie chicken and quail. Montana reduced the open season to two weeks only. California established seventeen game sanctuaries and stopped the shooting of sage grouse for five years. New Mexico protects sage grouse and bob-white for a long period. In Ohio the "Sportsmen's League" fought the five-year closed plan for quail, with the result that the farmers rose up in their wrath and put the quail perpetually on the song-bird list. Our Massachusetts ruffed grouse is the peer of any game bird that flies. There is just one way to save it for future generations, and that is to follow the example of less thickly settled, wiser Western states and put a complete closed season on the bird for at least five years. This is the plea of hard- headed sportsmen who see their favorite sport in danger, rather than that of sentimental bird-lovers. Regarding the ruffed grouse merely as a game bird, stocking the woods as a source of food and sport, it still would be as foolish to reduce their numbers beyond the point of reproduction as it would be for a chicken farmer to kill all his breeding stock and expect to make money selling chickens next year. The state game farms succeed in breeding quail in considerable numbers. As yet they have had little success with grouse. If the bird is to be saved to the state it is time to act. We have had two cold wet springs in succession, nesting seasons in which hardly a young brood survived in the four northern states of New England. Palliatives such as might be effective during seasons of successful breeding — short seasons, bag-limits, local sanctuaries and the like — will no longer suffice. To shoot next year and probably for some years to come will come danger- ously near to extirpating the breeding stock in Massachusetts. M onthly Bulletin 5 NETTING OLD-SQUAWS. Civilization takes great toll of our wild bird life in many ways. Some of this we can avoid. Much of it is utterly unavoidable. Of the latter type seems the great loss of life among old-squaw ducks on Lake Erie as reported by a Canadian member of the A. 0. U, at the Cambridge meeting. Old- squaws are fish-eaters and famous divers. In pursuit of small fish they are reported to go to depths exceeding a hundred feet. In this way thousands of them become entangled in the fishermen's nets on Lake Erie. The fish- eries, of course, must go on and it is impossible for the fishermen to keep the ducks from getting into the nets, which they do in almost unbelievable numbers. In the middle of May last year twelve tons of old-squaw were found in one fertilizer factory in Canada, having been brought in by the fishermen, taken from the lake some twenty-five miles south of London, Pntario, at varying depths up to ninety feet. The birds, bound north in their spring migration, congregate on the lake in great numbers, following the schools of small fish. The fishermen seem to be in no wise to blame for this. Probably they would be glad if the birds would keep away from the nets. MORE ABOUT CROW CONVENTIONS. Noting in your November Bulletin the great crow convention witnessed by Mr. Edward Marsh while motoring near Marlboro, Mass., the writer would say that on Simday P. M. of November the fourth, he also motored over the same route as that described by Mr. Marsh, and was witness to a similar sight in the same place; in fact the landscape was literally black with crows. I can recall other instances when I have seen these great assemblies and they always occurred about this time of the year. As a boy living in Franklin County I remember well these crow gatherings. For years I have watched a certain flock of crows which live near one of the large lakes of New Hampshire, and I feel quite positive that crows do migrate to some extent, although I never saw any in migration. During the winter months most of them disappear from the northern woods and only a few stragglers are left. There is one crow in this flock that has some vocal impediment which is responsible for a different call from the others; this is very marked and we look for the same crow season after season. Crows are interesting rascals to watch. Yours very truly, William B. Hubbard. BRINGING UP A WARBLER. Dear Sir: I am sure you will like the following story of a little black- throated green warbler. He was born in a nest on the grape-vine which hangs on the side of my daughter's house in Hampton Falls, N. H. My daughter's husband is a naturalist, and the two children are unusual in their 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society powers of observation. One day the boy — five years old — announced that there was a nest in the grapevine, and that he had seen a black-throated green warbler go into it. This seemed improbable, but investigation proved it true; it also revealed the fact that the nest was swarming with vermin; one little half-fledged bird was dead, and another very weak. The nest was renovated, and the weak little bird doctored, but the mother bird would not use the nest, so my daughter undertook the task of helping in the care of the baby. The mother was perfectly satisfied with the arrangement. The work went on until baby was fully fledged and strong enough to fly. My daughter wrote: "I have had the most delightful time with the baby warbler. Several times yesterday, when he was taking his exercise on the long piazza, his mother alighted on my hand and fed him right there, while he stood on one of my fingers." They have several snapshots showing the "baby" — sometimes on the hand of the little girl, at other times on the boy's hand, or that of my daughter. Is it common for warblers to show such confidence in human beings? I am inclined to think that they knew the character of the family living in that house with the convenient grapevine. My daugh- ter's husband can go into the woods and call to him several kinds of animals and birds. (Mrs.) J. L. Sanborn. WINTER VISITANTS. The State Ornithologist has established an information bureau so that adequate record may be kept of unusual flights of migrating birds through this region. He is in correspondence with observers from Canada to New Jersey, and will give out through this Bulletin, so far as possible, advance information of unusual flights of birds. Canadian ornithologists reported in November that there was a great scarcity of rabbits (hares) in the north and that a flight of great horned owls had come into their territory, possibly from the Hudson Bay region; also that goshawgs had appeared, though not in large nmnbers. Inquiries in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut indicate that great horned owls and goshawks have reached this region in rather unusual numbers. A few snowy owls have been reported from along the coast. Goshawks have been noted in Massachusetts from the coast to western Worcester County. In November a flight of whistling swans appeared in Maine, the first authentic flight recorded in that state since records have been kept. Three swans were seen in Freyburg, Oxford County, Maine, on October 27. Two of these were killed for the state museum on November 3. The next morning eighteen more were seen. Since then at diff"erent dates swans have been reported along the south shore of Massachusetts on Cape Cod and Martha's Vineyard in numbers varying from three to twenty-five or more. Northern gulls of three species have been reported from the Cape. Snow buntings and homed larks came late in October and early in November. Longspurs, siskins, pine grosbeaks and crossbills have been reported. It seems quite possible that we may have an unusual flight of winter birds. Anyone noting winter birds from the north is requested to notify the State Ornithologist, Room 136, State House, Boston, Massachusetts. Monthly Bulletin 7 LECTURE COURSE. The annual course of lectures at Tremont Temple, which has come to be an event among the bird-lovers of greater Boston, will be given this year on Saturday afternoons in February. There will be three lectures, the first on February 9th by Norman McClintock, ornithologist and expert motion picture photographer. There will be six reels, dealing largely with the home life of familiar northern birds, although many rarities will be shown. There will be a reel of Florida birds, showing pelicans, skimmers, man-o'- war-birds, a young bald eagle learning to fly, etc., and also our northern birds wintering there as well as the local smaller birds. On February 16th Mr. Stanley C. Arthur, Louisiana State Conservation Commissioner, will show the teeming bird life of the Louisiana bird reser- vations and how the state protects and increases her bird life. The third lecture of the series will be on February 23d, by William L. Finley of Oregon. Audubon Society members know Mr. Finley's work in motion pictures so well that it need not be praised to them. During the past year he has surpassed all previous records in recording rare and inter- esting events in bird life on the motion-picture film. Among other attrac- tions he shows the nuptial dance of the sage grouse, pictures of surpassing scientific as well as general interest, as the dance of the sage grouse is a series of extraordinary antics, rarely seen by naturalists and, according to Mr. Finley, hitherto wrongly described by them. He will show also a striking series of the home life of the hummingbird, and a great variety of useful and educational pictures on the home life of common and rare birds. Tickets for the course will be issued this year for the very small sum of one dollar each. It is believed that the excellence of the course and the low price will make these lectures more popular than ever. The audiences last year and year before practically filled Tremont Temple, and the lecture committee is seriously considering the desirability of this year issuing tickets to, and through, Audubon Society members only. LEGACIES. Sums donated by will to the Society will be immediately placed in the Reserve Fund of the Society, a use of the money which has peculiar value because of its permanence. The altruistic work of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, carried on for many years with increasing success, suggests the desirability of remem- bering it in this fashion. All the funds of the Society are handled carefully and conservatively, but the Reserve Fund, in the exclusive control of the Board of Directors, is especially worthy of the consideration of testators who wish to make legacies of lasting usefulness. There will always be need of organized work for bird protection, a form of conservation of the greatest importance to the general welfare. The Reserve Fund of the Society, when of sufficient size, wi'l insure this. Can you not help in this way? FORM OF BEQUEST. I give and bequeath to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Incorporated, the sum of Dollars for its Reserve Fund. CHRISTMAS GIFTS What can be better for students and bird-lovers than a set of the beautiful colored charts of birds, life size, known as THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. The birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the tirds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1918. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50. Copies will be mailed free to any desired address on receipt of the price. The calendars make desirable Christmas gifts to Bird Students, and the collection of bird pictures in colors thus obtained from year to year is unique and valuable. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Volume I. JANUARY, 1918 Number 9. Issued Monthly by the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. (Application for entry as second-class matter at the post-office at Boston pending.) BULLETIN OF THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY PROTECTION OF BIRDS 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. The Bulletin will chronicle the affairs of the Society from month to month, will report items of interest concerning birds, such as the appearance of rare species locally, will keep its readers informed as to State or Federal legislation and briefly note items of interest about birus throughout the world. Subscription price, one do'lar per annum, included in all Sustaining and Life Membership fees. ee. 2 Massachusetts Audubon Society FEED THE BIRDS. The new year comes to us with the most severe long-continued cold which has been seen since the Weather Bureau was established. Snow covers the food supply of our winter birds to a considerable extent, and un- less we are particularly careful to feed them they will suffer great hardship, if not death itself. The calls for charity and unselfish giving are great. Money and supplies are pouring forth from those who have to those who have not the world over, to an extent never before known. It is to the credit of hu- manity that, in all this tremendous outpouring to meet the needs of suffering men, the needs of the birds are not forgotten. The State Fish and Game Commission offers to supply food for the bob-whites and pheasants and asks all who are interested in seeing that it is distributed to apply to them at the State House. While primarily intended for the game birds, this will help the other seed-eating birds as well. Chaff from the hay-mow, crumbs and scraps from the table, anything eatable in fact, will be relished by some birds if placed where they can get it. The Audubon Society as its last official act of the old year, sent broad- cast, the request that the birds be fed. The formal notice comes to you thus through the Bulletin. It has also been sent to every postoffice, every news- paper, every woman's club and every D. A. R. Chapter in the New Eng- land States. The expense of this is borne in our own State by our own Society, in the other New England States by the National Association, which co-operates with us in this as in so much other good work. THE LECTURE COURSE. It is a great pleasure to announce that in addition to the three dis- tinguished lecturers who are to appear in the lecture course at Tremont Temple on Saturday afternoons next February, the 9th, 16th and 23rd, Mr. Charles C. Gorst will appear with his delightful imitations, or one might better say, reproductions, of bird music, at each lecture. All who have ever heard Mr. Gorst will be pleased to hear him again, especially as he comes to us with added powers and new experiences in the fascinating field of bird study which he makes peculiarly his own, a field in which he has no equal in the results obtained. ANNUAL ^BUSINESS MEETING. January 15, 1918. The Annual Business Meeting of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Incorporated, will be held at the Society's office, 66 Newbury Street, on Saturday, January 26, 1918, at 3 p. m. This is the corporation meeting and should not be confused with the annual mass meeting which will be held in April. Notice of this will be sent out later. WiNTHROP Packard, Secretary-Treasurj^. Monthly Bulletin 3 NEW MEMBERS The following members were added to the Society during the month of December, 1917: Life Members Hultman, Elizabeth B., care of E. C. Hultman, Room 302, 101 Milk Street, Boston Wallace, Cranmore N., Ill Devonshire Street, Boston Sustaining Members Chamberlain, Mrs. S. H., 114 Fenway, Boston Childs, Thomas S., Holyoke Cook, Seabury, 29 Clinton Street, New Bedford Davison, Fred H., Bridgewater, Nova Scotia Hale, Richard A., Lawrence Holman, Mrs. F. J., Barre Holman, F. J., Barre Houston, Mrs. Henry S., 1340 Northampton Street, Holyoke Hunt, Mrs. F. T., East Weymouth Leonard, Chester N., 104 Winthrop Street, Taunton McClelland, Miss M. B., 511 Beacon Street, Boston Mullins, Miss Anne, 56 AUiston Street, Plymouth Myrick, Mrs. Mira R., Wilbraham Orr, F. D., Taunton Paddock, Mrs. W. L., Dalton Paine, Miss Ethel L., 118 Brattle Street, Cambridge Parsons, Mrs. George W., 64 Spruceland Avenue, Springfield Pearson, Mrs. Henry, 578 North Main Street, Springfield Powers, Mrs. Walter, 134 Long Hill, Springfield Reed, H. B., 360 Central Avenue, Auburndale Rice, Frank C, 169 Maple Street, Springfield Robbins, Master R. E., Jr., 61 Monmouth Street, Brookline Bobbins, Miss Violett, 61 Monmouth Street, Brookline Schott, Joseph, Easthampton Stetson, John H., South Weymouth Strong, Mrs. L. C, Weymouth Heights Walker, William L., 107 Harrison Street, Fall River Wells, Mrs. Mary E., Southbridge Whittemore, William R., 36 Irving Street, Cambridge Wilbur, George E., Taunton Williams, A. G., & Son, Barre The following is an interesting paragraph from a letter from Miss Georgia M. Wheelock, of Oxford, Mass., received by Mr. E. H. Forbush, State Ornithologist. "Perhaps you may be interested to know about some nests in an old apple tree on a Connecticut farm. This tree was very near the house, and a year ago this past summer four species of birds nested in this tree. In a box a bluebird reared three broods; a robin, a chipping sparrow, and a Bal- timore oriole each brought up a family. A good record for one old apple tree." 4 Massachusetts Audubon Society EXHIBITIONS. Exhibitions of bird-protection material have been held recently at the Public Library, at Wareham, under the supervision of the Librarian, Miss Burgess, and at the Museum, at Springfield, in charge of Miss Johnson. Much of the material exhibited was supplied by this office and a part of it in each case will remain as permanent exhibition material. It is gratifying to learn that these exhibitions were well attended and received much favor- able comment. The Society will exhibit at the forthcoming winter meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, to be held at Worcester, on the 8th, 9th, and 10th, in Horticultural Hall on Front Street. All the best in bird literature, charts and leaflets as well as bird-houses, feeders and other material will be shown there, liberal space having been offered by the Board. To protect our native birds is one way to help the farmer increase the food-supply, and the exhi- bition thus made possible through the courtesy and wisdom of the State Board of Agriculture should add its mite to the efficient work which the Board is doing for the welfare of the State. A Greater Snow Goose, a rare bird for Massachusetts, is now to be seen mounted in the New England room of the Boston Society of Natural His- tory. Early last May this bird was seen on the farm of Mr. Charles W. Welch, Stoughton. An injury to the tip of the wing prevented it from flying far and it was captured. The greater snow goose breeds in the Arctic and migrates in winter to the South Atlantic States. So far as known, no speci- men has been taken in New England since 1868. An Arctic Horned Owl has also recently come into the possession of the Museum; no doubt one of the numbers of predatory birds which seem to be flocking to us from the Far North this winter. The bird was shot in Mt. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge by an employee there during Decem- ber. It is a noteworthy specimen because so light in color, being much lighter than another Arctic horned owl which has been in the Museiun collection for many years. A Black Vulture, taken in Wenham, Mass., last August, and donated to the Museum by Dr. John C. Phillips, is another rare bird for Massachusetts. The black vulture's range is more southern than that of its close relative, the turkey buzzard, which is considered a casual visitor to our State. RHODE ISLAND MOCKINGBIRD. Mrs. Annie B. McConnell writes under date of Dec. 1st: "We four of us saw a mockingbird yesterday. He was about some hours. As we have lived in Maryland, we knew our guest." Mockingbirds have been reported during the past year from Manches- ter, N. H., Portland, Me., Cape Cod, the Berkshires, Quincy, Mass., and other places in the Bay State. Are these desirable birds seen in New England more frequently of late because they are extending their range, or is it be- cause bird study and bird students are extending their range? Monthly Bulletin 5 FOLK-LORE OF BIRD SONGS. Lecturing before Princeton Pomona Grange at Ashburnham recently, the Secretary was entertained after the meeting with several bright items concerning what might be called the folk-lore of bird songs. His own story of how the robin was said by the farmer folk of the Dorchester back woods to sing "Kill him; cure him; give him physic," was supplemented by an- other, which gave the robin's song as "Jonathan Gillett scoured the skillet, scoured it bright and clean," Mr. Walter H. Sawyer, of Winchendon, also gave the bobolink's song as "Wadde link, wadde link, we five beans four corn pmnpkin seeds." He says the female bobolink's reply is, "Go to old England swap watches, speculate, speculate." You need to say it quickly to get the tinkling sequence of syllables. But does the female sing? Ought not both phrases to be ascribed to the male? Also it seemed to the Secre- tary that at least half a dozen others should be added to give the full song. There is without doubt a whole literature of entertaining material on this subject stored away in the minds of our older New Englanders, and it is a pity that it should be lost to the world, as it surely will be, as time passes, if it is not recorded. The Editor wishes that any one who knows any of these quaint traditions, however trivial they may seem, would send them in. Some of them would, no doubt, be interesting for publication in the Bulletin, but, whether for publication or not, they ought to be col- lected and preserved. January 3, 1918. The following notes about New England birds in December, are from the State Ornithologist's Bureau of Information recently estab- lished at the rooms of the State Board of Agriculture in the State House. Iceland gulls have been reported from Rockport, Cape Cod and Block Island. Wild geese and brant have been seen throughout most of the month at extreme southeastern points in Massachusetts. A flight of swans, which is the greatest on record in recent years, appeared in Maine and has been noted along the Massachusetts coast from the South Shore to the Cape and Martha's Vineyard. As many as twenty-five to thirty birds have been re- ported in one flock, and a few have remained until about the last week in December. Black ducks were seen during the early part of the month in unusually large numbers. Early in the month a flight of goshawks and great horned owls passed through Massachusetts; many of them remained through most of the month, but more appeared in Rhode Island and Connecticut. Approximately fifty goshawks have been reported as taken in this State. One taxidermist in Rhode Island is said to have taken over fifty specimens. They have appeared along the coasts and islands of Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard and Block Island. Great horned owls also appeared from the north, and they have attacked the game on game farms and reservations, where practically no great horned owls breed. A number have been killed and sent to taxi- dermists. A dealer in taxidermists' supplies reports a great demand for eyes for these owls. A few snowy owls have been seen and taken along the Massachusetts coast and in Rhode Island, and several have been seen on 6 Massachusetts Audubon Society Block Island. This flight of Northern hawks and owls probably was caused by the great scarcity of rabbits or hares in the Hudson Bay country. These form a large part of the food of great horned owls and goshawks in winter. These birds will decrease the numbers of grouse and quail in Massachu- setts. Already grouse are scarce over a large part of the State. The Commissioners on Fisheries and Game have placed a warden on Martha's Vineyard, whose principal duty will be to defend the heath hen from its many enemies. The numbers of the bird have been reduced now so low that they need special protection. Northern shrikes were reported throughout the State, in some sections in greater numbers than usual. Pine siskins were noted first in Massachu- setts at Provincetown, at the end of Cape Cod, and in other outer towns of the Cape, but no great numbers have been reported as yet. During the latter part of December a few redpolls appeared in some localities. They were first noted in Maine and are now reported in Massachusetts. Snow buntings came as early as usual along the coast, and they, with the horned larks, appeared in considerable numbers. In December, however, they were noted nearly the entire length of the State, and one large flock of Lapland longspurs was reported. Thus far pine grosbeaks and crossbills have not been heard from in any numbers; only a few are noted. Reports of winter- ing robins come from nearly all parts of the State. Meadowlarks and flickers were noted through December west to the Connecticut Valley and some even farther west. A number of mockingbirds have been reported wintering in the eastern part of the State and in Rhode Island and Connecticut. On the whole, the winter birds have not been as common as usual. Early in December chickadees appeared in rather large numbers, but have decreased, until late in the month nearly all reports told of decreasing num- bers. It is quite possible that they may have moved farther south. The only small bird that has appeared from the north in large numbers is the tree sparrow. This is reported almost everywhere in greater numbers than last year. The State Ornithologist is anxious to receive reports on the movements of winter birds. Correspondents should address him at Room 136, State House, Boston, Massachusetts. FEDERAL SHOOTING REGULATIONS. A single change in the Federal shooting regulations has been made. It pertains to shooting before sunrise. Under the former regulations, shooting before sunrise was forbidden; but there was a great demand, especially from Western States, for a change in this regulation. The representation was made that in many of these States ducks left the lakes early in the morning to feed in the fields, and did not return until nightfall. This was particu- larly the case in the inter-mountain States, where there is not a great deal of water and the opportunities to shoot waterfowl are few. The Secretary of Agriculture therefore has announced a change in this regulation to per- mit shooting from one-half hour before sunrise until sunset. This applies to the entire country, and became eff^ective on October 15, 1917. It does not, however, replace the State law where the State law imposes a stricter prohibition. The law making effective the treaty with Canada has not yet been Monthly Bulletin 7 passed by our Congress, although the companion law is already in effect in Canada. The Senate passed this measure, but war business has delayed concurrence in it by the House. It will not have to pass the Senate again. Under this law an entirely new set of regulations, already agreed upon by the Secretary of Agriculture and his advisers, will replace those now in ef- fect. While virtually the same in respect to shooting seasons, they prohibit the sale of migratory birds anywhere in the United States, and fix a uniform bag limit. USEFUL STARLINGS. Mrs. Henry H. Seaver, of Templeton, recently told an interesting story of the vermin-destroying work of a family of starlings, the first noticed in her neighborhood. A noise in the wainscotting of a downstairs room first called the attention of the family to the fact that something unusual was going on there. Search disclosed that the starlings had entered at a waste- pipe hole near the ground on the side of the house and were building there. After the young birds were hatched, the parents were found to be most in- dustrious caterpillar-hunters. They were seen to bring^many gipsy moth cater- pillars and, in one session, fifty of those of the browntail moth. As there were no browntails in the immediate vicinity of the house, the birds were watched and were found to be bringing them from an ancient apple tree in a pasture some distance away. This tree they practically cleared of the troublesome insects before the food campaign was over. Whatever the gen- eral reputation of the starling may be, Mrs. Seaver is firm in the belief that this pair of starlings were useful birds. MEMORIAL BIRD SANCTUARY. The "New Haven Register" thus congratulates the Connecticut city of Waterbury on its new bird sanctuary: "The city of Waterbury is to be congratulated on its acquisition of a large tract of land which is to be used as a sanctuary for birds. The land is given the city as a memorial, and is believed to be the first of its kind in this country. It consists of 36 acres and includes clumps of evergreens which have long been familiar to all bird-lovers of the city, for each year these groups of trees have been the resting place of the birds on their mi- grations each spring and fall. "The entire acreage is of land in a natural wild condition, and very little change is contemplated in this respect. The desire is to retain the attractive safety which has made the place so inviting for birds. In trans- ferring the property to the city, or in whatever form is taken to set it apart as a public park, this matter is to be carefully guarded. "The land is given to the city by Mr. and Mrs. William E. Fulton, and will set an example worthy of imitation for others who desire to give memo- rials which will be of benefit to the communities in which they live. "In recent years the necessity for the provision of sanctuary for birds by setting aside certain tracts which will be immune from the ravages of the small boys with the rifle or the pot-hunter with the sawed-off shotgun has become more and more evident. In giving the city of Waterbury such a memorial Mr. and Mrs. Fulton by their careful thought not only earn the gratitude of the city and the legions of bird-lovers all over the State, but provide as that memorial one which by its very uniqueness most fulfills the aims of the donors and becomes a civic asset for Waterbury as well." For Students and Bird Lovers What can be better for students and bird-lovers than a set of the beautiful colored charts of birds, life size, known as THE AUDUBON BIRD CHARTS There are three of these charts and they show in all 72 birds beginning with those most common. I'he birds are shown life size and in color and are scientifically accurate in form and markings. Each is numbered and on the chart is given, with the number, the common and scientific name. The Audubon Bird Charts are invaluable for school and family use. There is no better way to familiarize children with the appearance of our common birds than by the means of these charts. Hung on the wall, where they are never out of sight, they attract attention by their beauty and are a constant invitation to examination and study. They show the birds in life size and in characteristic attitudes and natural colors ; and are a practical help in nature study and drawing. They are both useful and decorative for schoolrooms, nurseries, and public and private libraries. Lithographed and mounted on cloth, size, 27x42 inches. These charts should be hung in every schoolroom and Public Library. Price of each Chart, $1.50. BIRDS OF NEW YORK. This is a portfolio, neatly boxed, containing a series of 106 plates, reprints from those used in the work entitled " Birds of New York ", the books by E. H. Eaton, issued in two volumes by the New York State Museum. These plates carry the names of the birds represented and include all of the birds known to breed within or visit the State of New York. The pictures in colors are very lifelike, having been drawn by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. With some unimportant exceptions this set does very well for a set of the Birds of Massachusetts. They may be bought of the Society and will be sent postpaid to any address on receipt of $1.50. THE AUDUBON CALENDAR FOR 1918. This Calendar shows six beautiful colored plates with descriptive text : Red-eyed Vireo, Ipswich Sparrow, Nighthawk, Sparrow Hawk, Brown Thrasher, Purple Finch, reproduced from the original drawings. In general appearance this Calendar is uniform with previous calendars, although slightly larger in size. The retail price of this Calendar is $1.50. Copies will be mailed free to any desired address on receipt of the price. The calendars make desirable gifts to Bird Students, and the collection of bird pictures in colors thus obtained from year to year is unique and valuable. The supply is limited. Send all orders to THE MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 66 NEWBURY STREET, BOSTON, MASS. ]ix, 'O'u.k;''^; 100110693 111 K