Identifier: birdlore181916nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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l this the number and varietyof the birds have sensibly increased, and owing to educational work beingdone by the Society there is a greater general interest in the subject. A pre-liminary survey of the property was made by Herbert K. Job, and a ForestHills Branch of the National Association of Audubon Societies was organizedin April, 1914, with about eighty members. Public lectures and meetings fol-lowed, bird-boxes were put up, winter-feeding begun, fountains and bird-bathswere made a part of the individual house and garden plan wherever possible,shrubbery was planted with a view to future cover, some work was done amongschool-children in the way of special lectures, Audubon literature was dis-tributed, and a Journeymans Class of boys was formed to make and sellbird-houses. One of the boys won the Brooklyn Eagles gold medal for KingsCounty in a recent bird-house competition. Perhaps most interesting of allare the bulletin boards specially designed and presented to the Society by the
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468 Bird - Lore Sage Foundation Homes Company, which are attached to the lamp-posts atten important street-corners, and upon which bird notes are posted weeklyin the spring and fall. The Society owes much to its president, now unfortunately about to resign,Mr. E. A. Quarles, vice-president of the American Game Protective Asso-ciation, under whose expert guidance the work of the Gardens was begun.—Mary E. Knevels, Secretary. Groton (Mass.) Bird Club.—This Club was organized at a meeting ofabout thirty-five interested persons on December 15, 1913. About ten daysprevious a well-attended public meeting in the Town Hall had been addressedby Ernest Harold Baynes, who graphically described and pictured the methodsused and the results obtained by the Meriden Bird Club, which he had founded.It is upon this club that the Groton Bird Club, as well as many other similarorganizations, is patterned. After the adoption of a constitution and election of ofi&cers, the first meet-ing of the Clu

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