the state are prohibited. The sale of these
birds is prohibited at all times."
That these laws are the outcome of a
popular reaction there is no doubt any
more than that the reaction was started by
the various protective associations, both Fed-
eral and State, chief among which stand
the protective committee of the A. O. U.,
the League of American Sportsmen and
the State Audubon Societies. To gain an
adequate idea of the number and scope of
the various state and local societies formed
for bird and game protection, we wish
every one would read the list, p. 664-671,
in the "Year Book" of the U. S. Depart-
ment of Agriculture for 1900.
Everywhere in these laws is the strength
of cooperation visible, a cooperation that
should be also applied to the work of the
Audubon Societies more especially in rela-
tion to their published material than in
their individual methods, which must neces-
sarily be local and specialized. — M. O. W.
SECOND ANNUAL AUDUBON
CONFERENCE
The Second Annual Conference of the
Audubon Societies will convene at the
American Museum of Natural History, New
York City, November 14, 1901, under the
auspices of the Audubon Society of New
York State, which extends to the members
of all Audubon Societies a cordial invitation
to attencl the pulilic meeting of the Societies
on the afternoon of the day above named.
REPORT OF CONNECTICUT SOCIETY
iPresentfd at thr I-nurth Annual Merting. held at Stam-
ford, May 2S. IQOl)
During the past year the Executive Com-
tnittee has held nine meetings" to transact
the business of the Society.
Part of our work has been the purchase
of more books for our traveling libraries, to
which we have added four ^l■t^ of eieeii
books each. We are much encourageil liy
the reports of the educational work these
libraries are doing in the schools and vil-
lages where they are circulated.
We have also purchased from the Massa-
chusetts Audubon Society sets of colored
iiird charts, which show the conunon birds
of New England. These charts we send to
our local secretaries for their use in schools
or bird classes, or to the schools themselves.
We have felt much encouraged by the spe-
cial interest which our State Board of Edu-
cation has shown in our work through its
secretary, Mr. C. D. Hine. It now has
charge of our lecture outfits, our trav-
eling libraries and most of our charts, and
our desire is to purchase more of these
materials which they utilize so well, as we
think the Board of Education can extend
this branch of work better than we can.
Our membership this year has been in-
creased by 4 sustaining members, 45 regular
members, 46 teachers, 828 junior members
and 642 associate members, making a total
of 1,565 new members. I have had most
interesting reports from twenty-three of our
local secretaries, showing what excellent
work they are doing in the towns of Nor-
walk, Stamford, South Woodstock, Middle-
town, Norwich, North Woodbury, Water-
town, Cjranby, Scotland, New Canaan,
Enfield, Bristol, Stratford, Bridgeport,
Wethersfield, New Milford, Redding,
Haddam, Madison, Willimantic, Hartford,
Westport and Woodbridge.
The local secretaries form bird classes, or
speak to the children in the schools and
interest them in bird protection, and, as
one wrote to me, "call the children's atten-
tion to the birds," as often people live all
their lives among birds and hardly see them
or iiear them, because no one has "called
their attention" to them, and the children
continue thoughtlessly to stone birds and
rob their nests, because no one has spoken a
few simple words that will touch their hearts.
Another one writes: The children have
had their eyes opened at last, and they are
alive to the fact that it pays to protect the
birds. In another school the children made
a chart of tiicir own from sets of colored birds
sent out by some insurance companv ns an
advertisement, and being their own work,
this chart is particidarly enjoyable to them.
One town, Madison, had six sets of our
bird charts at one time. In some towns a bird
caUiuiar is kept, giving the date of seeing the
bird, its name, name of observer and place.
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