Identifier: birdlore19nati (find matches)
Title: Bird-lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals
Subjects: Birds -- Periodicals Birds -- Conservation Periodicals
Publisher: New York, National Association of Audubon Societies
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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nderful movingpictures of birds of the East and South. At each of these lectures the housewas filled to capacity. The audiences were made up largely of adults, andone noteworthy fact was the presence of a goodly number of men, despite themorning hour, which had been considered a possible handicap for businesspeople. One practical accompUshment has been the ending of the aigrette traffic inChicago. There is no statute in Illinois specifically forbidding the sale ofaigrettes. The State Game Law, however, contains a clause making it illegalto sell any bird or part of wild bird, which some of the Directors believedwas in itself a prohibition of the aigrette trade. Our attorney brought thematter to the attention of the State Game and Fish Commission, who referredit to the Attorney General. He rendered an opinion, holding that the clause inquestion made the aigrette trade illegal. When this was brought to the atten-tion of the State Street stores, the managers promptly agreed to discontinue
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President of the Illinois Audubon Society. (445) 446 Bird-Lore the sale of aigrettes and to cooperate with our representatives in suppressingthe trade throughout the city.—Bertha Traer Pattee, Secretary. Indiana Audubon Society.—In view of the fact that no general reportof Audubon work was made last year, the present report will include that. Last year the annual convention was held at Rushville,Ind., with a three-dayprogram. The evening meetings were given over to lectures showing the closerelationship of birds to the life of man, and stimulating more study and pro-tection of the birds. All the schools were visited, and short bird-talks given bythe Audubon members. Two lectures were given before the high school, entitledOur Summer Residents, and Nature Study and Farm Life. A bird exhibitof mounted specimens and bird-boxes was held in the annex high school.Only birds that could be seen at that time were shown. Longfellows Birds ofKillingworth, was dramatized most effectively by se

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