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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A. J. Sawyer, of Lincoln, providing for a closed season on Doves,successfully passed and became a law. However, a provision for the settingapart of certain designated areas, both wooded lands and some lake regionsin the sand-hill country, failed of passage. Our members have been most keenly interested in the efforts of the NationalAssociation to preserve the Migratory Bird Law and the Treaty with GreatBritain. Numerous telegrams and letters were sent to Washington to ourSenators and Representatives and to committees in behalf of thesemeasures. The 200 suet-holders which were purchased early last fall by the Society andplaced in the parks and along the boulevards, were certainly a delight to ourwinter visitants and sojourners. The suet was provided by the Society, andthe Committee, aided by the Boy Scouts, kept the holders replenished. The Society purchased, through the National Geographic Society, a set offifty slides of Nebraska birds, painted by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. These beauti-
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ON THE SHORE, CHILDS POINT BIRD SANCTUARY, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. ful slides have been of tremendous value to our work. Requests for the use ofthem have come to us from all over the state, and they have made a dozenjourneys to different towns in Nebraska and Iowa. The slides have been showna score of times in Omaha at churches, settlement and civic centers, withlectures by our President, Dr. Towne, and others. Enos Mills lecture on

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