. Bird-lore . Audubon Society of Kingston (N. Y.).—The past yearour aim has been to know intimately a few of our common birds. To this endwe made several field-trips and at each monthly meeting papers on two of thelisted birds were given, while cards and colored slides were shown. As usual the Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 433 Bird Club held appropriate exercises in Chapel on Stale Bird Day. One of themembers brought us a Great Horned Owl which her brother shot after severalchoice ducks had been devoured. The bird was mounted, the Board of Educa-tion and the Club sharing the expens
. Bird-lore . Audubon Society of Kingston (N. Y.).—The past yearour aim has been to know intimately a few of our common birds. To this endwe made several field-trips and at each monthly meeting papers on two of thelisted birds were given, while cards and colored slides were shown. As usual the Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 433 Bird Club held appropriate exercises in Chapel on Stale Bird Day. One of themembers brought us a Great Horned Owl which her brother shot after severalchoice ducks had been devoured. The bird was mounted, the Board of Educa-tion and the Club sharing the expense.—(Miss) Elizabeth Burroughs,Secretary. Ca)ruga (N. Y.) Bird Club.—Practising its wartime economy another year,the Cayuga Bird Club made no special effort to obtain funds, but contenteditself with small services in behalf of the birds. Several feeding stations weremaintained in the Clubs bird-sanctuary, and an increasing number of themwere kept up at the schools and at private homes throughout the MADE nv CHILDREN Ol ITHACA, \. Y., IN CONTEST HELD BY CAYUGA UIRD CLLB, 1019 In the spring the Club announced a bird-box competition for the schoolchildren. The boys took part with great enthusiasm, about loo very good boxesbeing entered, and suitable prizes of various kinds of tools were awarded. Theboxes were placed on exhibition in the assembly hall of the high school, and thepresentation of the prizes formed the main exercise of a convocation year the children kept their boxes to put up at their own homes, anfl tlieBird Club has heard that a good percentage of them were tenanted. As usual, the early Saturrlay morning lield-trips were held for the gen-eral pul)lic during Ajjril and May. There were several leaders, each ofwhom took a small section, so that everyone could enjoy the migration to thelull. A new feature of our work this year was the planting of al)out 500 red 434 Bird - Lore pines and Norway spruces in the sanctuary. These trees were
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