. Bird lore . tional Association for Virginia, gave an illustrated lec-ture, when nearly thirty of the audience present were enlisted as members ofthe new society. It became the habit, during the migration season, for a partyof members to take walks on Saturday afternoons, for the purpose of studyingthe feathered creatures in their native haunts, which was found the only trueway to fully appreciate bird-life. These jaunts afforded keen pleasure. Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 465 Committees on publicity and entertainment were formed, the former pre-paring news-articles for the local
. Bird lore . tional Association for Virginia, gave an illustrated lec-ture, when nearly thirty of the audience present were enlisted as members ofthe new society. It became the habit, during the migration season, for a partyof members to take walks on Saturday afternoons, for the purpose of studyingthe feathered creatures in their native haunts, which was found the only trueway to fully appreciate bird-life. These jaunts afforded keen pleasure. Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 465 Committees on publicity and entertainment were formed, the former pre-paring news-articles for the local papers regarding various features of interest;the latter promoting the formation of Junior societies in some of our publicschools, thereby giving the pupils a chance for bird-study. Our treasurer, S. Harris, Sr., has talked and read to the children of her neighborhood,and has instilled in them a respect for living things that has led these boys andgirls to think before they wantonly waste BIRD GUARDIANS, A MASQUE GIVEN BY THE DOYLESTOWN (PA.) NATURE CLUB The keynote of the Audubon movement in Cumberland is live and letlive, which, although it be applied to wild-life alone, must necessarily reacton our human relationships, so that protection and tolerance must mean amore beautiful conception of living.—William S. Sparks, Assistant Secretary. Doylestown (Pa.) Nature Club.—I am sending you a yearbook, also apicture of Bird Guardians, a masque written by Leigh Mitchell Hodges forthe Nature Club in the interest of bird-life, and presented in the open once inDoylestown and once at Chestnut Hill, to several hundred people. The NatureClub has started three bird-sanctuaries, and for two years has had an appro-priation from the State Game Commission for feeding the winter birds, whichwas done during the blizzards and severe weather. During one of our severestsnow-storms last winter the committee on bird-protection faced a blindingsnow, and waded in drifts up to
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