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Bro MAN'S LAND
FIRST REPORT

OF THE

BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB

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«<The life that floods the happy fields
With song and light and color
Will shape our lives to richer states,
And heap our measures fuller.”’

—Christopher Pearse Cranch.

MILTON, MASS.
ov wiih

 
THE BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB

MiLtTon, MassACHUSETTS
P. O., READVILLE, Mass.

President

Dr. JoEL E. GoLDTHWAIT

Vice-President

Mrs. FELix RACKEMANN

Secretary

Mrs. Livincston Davis

Treasurer

Mr. ROBERT SALTONSTALL

General Manager

Dr. Harris KENNEDY
TABLE OF CONTENTS

BREBACE acs soa cota ade eae Hog at awe 9
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE...............000.0055 Ir
HISTORY OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB. ... 13
ITS: ORIGIN 3.0-SGa 5 aGw ey Rew WA Bas eh a 13
ITs OPPORTUNITIES FOR SERVICE........... pea, (EB
Nesting Boxes for the Birds.. .............. 13
Educational Campaign....... .........-... 13
Aiding the Public Library... ........... nee ES
The Bird Sanctuary. ................. wae Id
Public Lectures... 05 .ca ese Ga esos 14
PubliGityces 6.4.4.0 328 ache DA0e PASS Saeed. 5 14
An Exhibition.......0.00.00.00.00 (ccc eee eee eee 14
THE SCOPE OF OUR EXHIBITION............ 15
NeEstiInG Boxes AND FEEDING STATIONS........ 15
NeEsTING Box AXIOMS........... 0 ......-22 005 16
Tue BatH—For BIrRDS......... 0 ......00--0 000 18
NATURE'S METHOD OF FEEDING THE BIRDS..... 19
List of Berry-Bearing and Seed-Bearing Shrubs
and: Weeds. icu-Gukasa sy bcuseae: 20
“Brrp BREAKFAST FooDs”’.....  ..... era 23
List of Grains, Dried Fruits, etc........ ... 24
Bird Pudding............. 00.00.00 cee aue 26
Bird Christmas Tree....................05. 26
Bird Food Stick .........0... 00.000. e ee eee 26
THE ENGLISH SPARROW........-0.. 0000 - eee eeee 27
List oF Books AND BirD ARTICLES............. 27
Bird: Books? ¢ wor seke Ween ae ghee eee ees 28
United States Department of Agriculture
Bulletins: eciGo.cca hoa es aes 30
National Association of Audubon Societies’ Pub-
iGaHiOnS 3 page shee tpt dled 4 eaves 30

Massachusetts Audubon Society Publications.. 31
Commonwealth of Massachusetts State Board

of Agriculture Publications................ 31
Newspaper Articles from the Boston Evening
LVOWMSCVUDE sae Gasca) Sadia oeateie psc e eal ar 32
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THE SCOPE OF OUR EXHIBITION—Continued

BIRD “PORTRAITS. 2 id evs kids Sh oes Wd a een ee
Colored Plates of Birds.................40-
The Children’s Color Work..................

Brrp GAMES FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS........

NATIONAL AND STATE GAME LAWS..............
The Bird Warden Act..............2----00-
Bird Reservations in Massachusetts..........

Chapter 178, Acts of 1902, with poster... .
Chapter 362, Acts of 1909, with poster....
Chapter 410, Acts of 1911, with poster....
Answer to the question—Has the State any Lien
on the Land of a Reservation under these

MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY—TWwo POSTERS
Warning about Song and Insectivorous Birds . .
Hunting, Shooting, Trapping or Trespassing . . .

THE AMERICAN HUMANE EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY—

POSTER. 6.0) ae ccsane’. oh ade easton ee eu eS Aloe
Protection of Birds

MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE—

Trepass Laws
MASSACHUSETTS COMMISSIONERS ON FISHERIES AND
GAME—POSTER.. .....0 2. ccc cece cen
Extracts from the Fish, and Game Laws of 1914
MASSACHUSETTS FISH AND GAME PROTECTIVE As-
SOCIATION—POSTER ..........0 000022 e eee renee
a. Federal Regulations for the Protection of
Migratory Birds
b. New Massachusetts Game Laws

AN ARTICLE ON THE EXHIBITION...........
OUR TALKED-OF EXHIBIT.....................

THE CHILDREN’S PART IN THE BRUSH HILL
BIRD CLUB EXHIBIT.........................

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AWARDS FOR BIRD PICTURES................

THE CO-OPERATION OF THE MANUAL TRAIN-
ING DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

EXTENSION OF THE WORK..................
BIRD ESSAY—PRIZE.. ... ..........2. cee vane

NEWTON HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT ASSO-
CIATION csientaSaniee Bowe, Biee Me tase ser att

THE ECONOMIC ASPECTS—BIRDS, FORESTRY
AND AGRICULTURE. ...... ................

EVERYONE CAN DO SOMETHING FOR THE
BIRDS: on esse dewapnaeieaes ipeeaoake Ges

CONSTITUTION OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD

MEMBERS OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB.

ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD
CLUB EXHIBITION
PLATE I, WITH EXPLANATORY TEXT. eae
PLATE II, WiTH EXPLANATORY TEXT. .. ........
PLATE III, With EXPLANATORY TEXT. .. ...
PLATE IV, WitH EXPLANATORY TEXT..........

MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY BLUEJAY PLATE
WITH COLORING DIRECTIONS. .............

FRIENDLY CO-OPERATION — HILLTOP BIRD
FOOD BOX—SCALE DRAWING.......... .....

APPENDIX
A. THE FEDERAL Micratory Birp LAW AND
REGULATIONS sc peaey ss ge hee oe Hee ee
B. CONSTITUTION OF THE MERIDEN BIRD CLUB....
C. List oF Brrps SEEN IN AND ABOUT MILTON. .
D. Ky To THE STATE RESERVES IN MASSACHUSETTS
AS SHOWN ON Map AND ESTABLISHED UNDER
THE ACTS OF 1902, 1909, AND IQII..........
. ParTiIAL List oF BirpD CLuss IN NEw ENGLAND
. TRANSLATION OF ITALIAN POSTERS............

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PREFACE

The Brush Hill Bird Club wishes to impress on all
who chance to see this Report that our Club is not com-
posed of learned ornithologists—in fact, most of us
know comparatively few birds. Our aims are to protect
the birds and attract them about our houses and grounds.
Our watchword is Conservation. In this movement
all can aid, whether they know a crow from a robin, or
not. To be sure, more knowledge comes inevitably, as
one cannot long feed the birds without becoming inter-
ested and noting their habits, colors, etc., but knowledge
of bird-lore is not in the least necessary to help on one
of the country’s growing “‘campaigns,” as Mr. Baynes
has expressed it. We need the birds and the birds at
present sorely need our aid and protection.

Our Club was formed a little over a year ago. At
first, as individuals, we did a few things for the birds;
then we turned our attention to the general topic of
bird protection and instituted an educational campaign
seeking the co-operation of our townspeople. Among
other activities we held an exhibition in the Milton
Public Library for two months. The attendance was
1,466 persons. The substance of this report is what
we displayed at our exhibition. We in no wise claim
completeness, but issue this account of our work as a
suggestion to others who may foster or carry forward
the cause. The mere collecting of the material for such
a display is instructive, and much useful information
is gathered from conversations with the visitors to such
an exhibition. We feel that boy scouts, granges, and
community clubs, as well as the women’s clubs all over
the country might take up the work with interest to
themselves and untold profit from an economic stand-
point to the whole community.

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To the many friends who have helped us, the General
Manager wishes to express his gratitude; especially to
Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist, and
‘Mr. Winthrop Packard, Secretary of the Massachusetts
Audubon Society, without whose aid and encourage-
ment this report would never have seen the light. We
would particularly thank our Librarian, Miss Gertrude
E. Forrest, and her staff, for their helpfulness during
the time our exhibition was open; also those members
of the Milton Woman’s Club who volunteered to be
on hand afternoons to explain the displays and answer
questions.

For the map of Massachusetts showing the bird reser-
vations, we are indebted to Dr. George W. Field, Chair-
man of the Fish and Game Commissioners of the Com-
monwealth.

We are indebted also to Mr. Ralph E. Forbes, of
Milton, for his bird-lists—records covering ten years; to
Mr. A. S. Jenney, of Weston, for the plan of his feeding
station; and to Milton Bradley Company for permission
to reproduce their bluejay plate for coloring.

We should not omit to mention the valuable service
rendered the Club by Mr. Cyrus E. Dallin and Mr.
Frank T. Merrill in acting as judges of the children’s
work.

To my fellow-officers and fellow-members of the Club,
I would offer my congratulations upon the success of
this, our first year. Miss M. Purdon and Miss Fanny
Brooks, and our President, I would especially thank
for their helpful suggestions at various times.

This little book has served its purpose, if it aids any
person or community in collecting material for similar
exhibits or offers suggestions for carrying on the work
of bird protection.

GENERAL MANAGER.
THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

A desire to preserve the vegetation in the Blue Hill
Reservation and in the many smaller private reserva-
tions, in or about our town, from the ravages of the
numerous insect pests, with the appreciation of the
hopelessness of controlling these pests by the methods
commonly used, is that which really led to the organi-
zation of the Brush Hill Bird Club.

The appreciation of the great importance of the birds
in the control of insect life led to Mr. Ernest Harold
Baynes being invited to tell the residents of the Brush
Hill section of our town of the remarkable work in
attracting and preserving the birds that had been carried
on under his direction at Meriden, New Hampshire.

His lecture was so hopeful and his suggestions so
practical that then and there a bird club was organized,
the Meriden Club being used as a model. Following
this, lectures were given by Mr. Edward Howe Forbush
and Mr. Winthrop Packard. With the assistance of
these three gentlemen our own work was encouraged.

At the time of the organization, following the form of
the Meriden Club, a General Manager was chosen, and
that so much has been accomplished in the short time
in which the Club has been in existence is largely due to
the wisdom and untiring efforts of this officer.

The work of the Club should be a great encouragement
to similar work in other communities and it should be
remembered that the work was started and has been
carried on very largely by those having previously had
little knowledge of birds or their habits. The problems
are so simple that very little scientific knowledge is
required while the benefits to a community in material
and aesthetic form are so great that it is the feeling of
our Club such work should be a part of every suburban
or rural community.

JoEL E. GoLptTHwalIt.
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HISTORY OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB

In February, 1913, Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes gave
an address to the residents of the Brush Hill-Blue Hill
district of Milton. His helpful talk on bird conservation
and his account of the work done at Meriden, N. H.,
aroused so much enthusiasm that those present voted
then and there to organize the Brush Hill Bird Club.

The interest in bird life was further awakened by a
series of social evenings, when the Club was addressed
by such well-known ornithologists as Mr. Edward Howe
Forbush and Mr. Winthrop Packard. The question of
what the Club could do for the township soon became a
vital matter. Through the lectures and social gatherings
the members of the Club came to realize that they had an
opportunity for useful service to the community. Our
activities developed in this way:

1. As it was early spring our members bought and put
up about one hundred nesting boxes for the birds.

2. We then decided to wage an educational campaign
among the school children of the town of Milton, by dis-
tributing to the public and private schools, the Public
Library and its branch reading rooms, and the Cunning-
ham Park Gymnasium, sets of the Audubon charts,
Trafton’s ‘‘Methods of Attracting Birds,’”’ and the Fish
and Game Protective Association poster containing the
regulations of the Federal Migratory Bird Law and
State Game Laws. Accordingly eighteen such outfits
were placed in our town.

3. The Club undertook to complete for the Public
_ Library its files of bird magazines and supply from time
to time such bird books as would be useful to the com-
munity. This is a matter any improvement association
or bird club can easily undertake, and if, with restricted

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financial resources, only one good book a year be pre-
sented to the public library, in time a good collection of
books would be accessible to all the townspeople.

4. The Club considered the possibilities of starting a
Bird Sanctuary, but it seemed more feasible to further
the use of an already established park area in the town.
The trustees of Cunningham Park have cordially met
the suggestion of the Club and already have planted
shrubs attractive to birds around a small pond area.*
Their plans include the placing of feeding stations, bird
baths, and nesting boxes. The pupils of the manual
training classes of the High School have built a large
feeding station, which the Superintendent of Schools will
present to the trustees in behalf of the children. At the
same time the Brush Hill Bird Club will present a martin
house and suitable pole. Dedicatory exercises will take
place early in the fall. This co-operation of the school
children is an important point and it is hoped will have
far-reaching effects.

5. Under the auspices of the Club on January 27, 1914,
Mr. Edward Howe Forbush, State Ornithologist of Mass-
achusetts, gave an illustrated public lecture in one of the
large public school assembly halls on ‘Bird Nesting
Boxes and Methods of Attracting Birds.’’ The school
children, their parents, and teachers were invited. Four
hundred and fifty persons (the capacity of the hall) were
present. The request has come to have a series of such
talks next winter that all the school children may have
an opportunity to attend.

6. In order to help the cause articles telling of bird con-
servation or the Club’s activities were sent to the local
newspaper from time to time.

7. Lastly, the Club voted to hold an exhibition to
arouse intelligent interest in bird conservation. This

*Planting plans and list of shrubs from Mr. Frederic H. Kennard of
Boston.
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exhibition so far fulfilled its purpose that it forms the
major part of this, our first report. The elements of
this exhibition can be so readily modified and extended
to suit the needs of any community that we offer this
account of it in the hope that it may be the working
basis for many similar activities in other places.

The Scope of the Exhibition

At first, we planned to show simply a collection of
nesting boxes and feeding stations in a neighbor’s barn,
but the project at once suggested so many possibilities
that the Public Library seemed to be the only suitable
place. When completed, in addition to the nesting
boxes and feeding stations, the exhibition included a
variety of bird baths, a large collection of branches of
berry-bearing and seed-bearing trees and shrubs, and
the seed stalks of weeds (displayed under the heading
‘“‘Nature’s Method of Feeding the Birds’), an assort-
ment of grains, a collection of selected books and
pamphlets on bird life, the texts of game laws and
posters, numberless colored pictures of birds, a sparrow
trap, suet pudding, a food stick, and a bird Christmas
tree.

Nesting Boxes and Feeding Stations

The collection of nesting boxes was varied and inter-
esting, ranging from unique home-made articles such
as starch boxes, flower pots, tin cans, southern gourds,
and Italian olive jars, to the Packard paroid roofing
paper boxes, the Perry bird boxes, the Von Berlepsch
boxes and other commercially manufactured articles.

A list of the boxes* on exhibition and names of man-
ufacturers follows:

Joseph H. Dodson, Suite 1201-5, 19 La Salle St., Chicago, Il.
Martin house, copper roof, price $15 F. O. B. Chicago.

* See plates for details, pages 83 and 85.
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Shelter house, copper roof, price $10 F. O. B. Chicago.

Automatic shelter food table, copper roof, price $7.50 F.O. B.
Chicago.

Feeding car, copper roof, price $6 F. O. B. Chicago.

Sparrow trap, price $5 F. O. B. Chicago.

Feeding shelf, copper roof, price $2 F. O. B. Chicago.

Jacobs Bird House Co., J. Warren Jacobs, Manager, 404
Washington St., Waynesburg, Pa. Represented by extensive
catalogue.

Audubon Bird House Company, Meriden, N. H. Nesting
boxes, Nos. I, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Also feeding stations.

The Perry Bird Boxes, Philip E. Perry, 748 Tremont Bldg.,
Boston. Perry Bird Boxes, $1 each (3 sizes), F. O. B. Saco,
Maine.

Wheateley Pottery Company, 2426-2432 Reading Road,
Cincinnati, O. 2 sizes, Nos. 1 and 2, $1 each.

The Packard Bird House, Winthrop Packard, Canton,
Mass. 35c each, 3 for $1.

The Maeterlinck Nesting Jar for Bluebirds, designed by
the Brush Hill Bird Club, following the model of an Italian
olive jar. Made and sold by the Dorchester Pottery Works,
9 Preston St., Dorchester, Mass. 60 cents.

Pinedale Bird Nesting Boxes manufactured by E. C. Ware,
Wareham, Mass., after specifications of Edward Howe For-
bush, State Ornithologist of Massachusetts. Price 25 cents.

Nesting Box Axioms

The following principles are well to bear in mind
regardless of the source from which the nesting box comes:

The box must be suitable to attract birds.

The size of the box itself, as well as the size of the
entrance hole, must be correct. We give this table in
the hope that it may be useful as a guide to those putting
up home-made boxes:

Bluebirds and tree swallows: the box should be 12 x 6x 5
inches, size of the hole 14 inches, and the box should be be-
tween 8 and 30 feet from the ground.
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Wrens and chickadees: box should be 12 x 5 x 4 inches,
size of the hole 13 inches, placed 6 to 25 feet from the ground.

Flickers: box should be 15 x Io x 8 inches, hole 3 to 3%
inches, placed 6 to 25 feet from the ground.

Screech owl: box should be 15 x 12 x 12 inches, hole 3 to
3% inches, placed 15 feet from the ground.

Martin house colony, hole 2 inches, place pole 16 to 20
feet high in open fields where the martins can see the house.

The cover should be detachable so that the box can
be easily cleaned and the box should be inspected each
year for gypsy moth or other insects’ eggs.

A sloping top with an overhang is a protection to the
young birds from both sun and rain.

The inside depth of 6 to 8 inches from the hole to
the bottom of the box keeps the cat from pulling the
young birds out of the nest.

Squirrels may be kept out of the boxes by putting
a piece of zinc around the hole so that they cannot
enlarge it by gnawing.

The box should be ventilated. This can be done by
having near the overhanging cover two holes on each
side, which may be closed up by ordinary corks in the
early part of the season, and when hot weather has
established itself, the corks may be removed.

When painted, be sure that the paint is dry and hard.
It is better to put the boxes up and let them weather
early in the winter, that their newness may be gone
before the birds arrive.

So much for the box itself. Where shall we put it?
The entrance hole should face the south or west to
protect it from the prevailing storms of this vicinity.
Better than trees are posts 8 feet high, on the top of
which the box may be placed. For example, if every
third post of boundary fences were left 8 feet high and
a box fastened to the top, many birds would use the
boxes. The pole method, moreover, saves the ravages
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of both cats and squirrels. On the lawn or in a door-
yard the pole may have a Dorothy Perkins rose growing
on it: the thorns on the rosebush prevent cats and
squirrels from climbing to the nesting box. Another
way to protect the box is to encircle the pole with a
tin band or wire netting.

Wood is the best material for nesting boxes. Tin
cans or flower pots, when used, should be placed in the
shade, as they are likely to heat up and cook the young
birds. The birds will use home-made boxes that follow
these specifications just as readily as any of the expen-
sively manufactured varieties.

Many persons put the nesting boxes too near together.
The birds like a free feeding area about their dwellings,
and if the nesting boxes are crowded, and assume a
tenement district nearness, they are not so likely to be
occupied. Select suitable clumps of trees, and then be
content with a single nesting box to a clump, and do
not make the mistake of putting a nesting box on each

tree.
The Bath—For Birds *

The bath is an important method of attracting birds
about the house in summer. Clean water for drinking
and bathing is absolutely essential as birds are known
to have travelled miles to find palatable water. These
bathing pools must be suitably made, however. In
general, baths should be shallow, with a gradual slope.
The birds like to wade into the water, and many baths
fail to attract as many bathers as they should because
the sides are too steep and the beach-like slope is lacking.
They should also be of material which is not too slippery.

The Brush Hill Bird Club has had an earthenware
bird bath made up on these lines, which is known as
the St. Francis Dip. They are obtainable from the
Dorchester Pottery Works, 9 Preston St., Dorchester,
Mass., at $6.00.

*See plate, page 81.
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At the exhibit, several bird baths were shown of
various materials and designs. Below is given a list
with manufacturers’ names and prices:

Philip L. Carbone, Importer, Florist and Decorator, 342
Boylston St., Boston, $10-$300 each.

Yamanaka & Co., 456 Boylston St., Boston. $50.

Devereaux Mansion, Marblehead, Mass. Various styles
and sizes. $3-$4.

Sideways Studios, 88 Broad St., Boston. Baths $3-$5.
Also more expensive and elaborate ones.

Horne Bros., Miner St., Boston. Bird baths and drinking
station made from suggestions of Mr. Ernest Harold Baynes
of the Meriden Bird Club. May be placed upon the ground
or upon a post. If dogs or cats are about it is best to place
bath 3 or 4 feet from the ground.

Nature’s Method of Feeding the Birds

The section of the exhibition that aroused the greatest
interest, perhaps, was that entitled, ‘‘ Nature’s Method
of Feeding the Birds.’’ This appealed both to bird
lovers and botanists, and proved a leading attraction
to greatnumbers. It consisted of a collection of branches
of trees and shrubs bearing berries and seeds. The
object of this collection was to show visitors actual
specimens and urge them to plant one or more varieties
for the sake of their feathered neighbors. This could
be made a special feature on Arbor Day.

There were no pressed specimens: the twigs and fruits
were in their natural condition, and the variety and
colors of the berries were a revelation to the majority
of persons visiting the exhibit. Through the kindness
of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, a series
of foreign specimens was secured. This nucleus was
supplemented by pasture weeds and roadside shrubs
and trees collected in Milton. The whole collection was
displayed on a home-made screen 63 feet high by 25
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feet long of 2 x 3 joist, with four strands of chicken
wire, I2 inches wide, to which the specimens were
attached by ordinary florist’s wire.

A background of white cotton sheeting gave the
effect of snow and brought out the color and form of
the berries and seeds. The screen was held in place
by overhead guy wires, thus saving any necessity for
marring the flooring, as no nails were used. A list of
the shrubs follows:

NAME LocaLity
Acanthopanax sessiliflorum.... .... ..Northeastern Asia
Alnus rugosa (alder)... ©... 0.0... 20... ... Milton
*Alnus incana (alder)........ ..... Sink -,Oxbastenals Milton
Alnus tinctoria (alder—a large tree). ..  ...... . Japan
Ampelopsis (woodbine)........0 02.0.0... 00.0 eee eee Milton
Articum Lappa (burdock)...... alse. fame osetentenater Milton
Asclepias (milk-weed)...  ... 0 .......... .... .Milton
Aster forma—several species....  ..... .....-..00. Milton
Aster levisn 2.2 ce hy Ae ees ee Ode Gta Milton
Berberis japonica (Japanese barberry).. ..... ..... Milton
*Berberis vulgaris (common barberry).......... ... Milton
*Betula (birch)—several species.................... Milton
Calycanthus Mohrii............. Southeastern United States
Celastrus orbiculatus (Japanese waxwort)............ Japan
Celastrus scandens (Roxbury waxwort)............. Milton
*Celtis occidentalis (hackberry)..... Eastern North America
Cheenomeles japonica.... ..... Sah. A Water eee deeds wes Japan
Clematis japonica. ....... sage aaaketss ee ah ay Milton
Clematis virginiana... .........6.0 cee cece ce eee Milton
*Clethra alnifolia (sweet pepperbush). . .... ... ..Milton
Colutea arborescens.............. 0 ...-. Southern Europe
***Cornus florida (flowering dogwood)....... ...... Milton
***Cornus—several species... .... ......-.0.00 000 Milton
**kCornus Sanguinea. ....  ....Europe and Eastern Asia

{See plate, page 79.
* These are especially attractive to birds. Three stars indicate special
favorites.
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NAME LOCALITY
**Crategus (Hawthorn)—several species............ Milton
Cuscuta (Dodder vine)... ..........0....00 20005. Milton
Diervilla rivularis. ....... Southern Appalachian mountains

Diospyros virginiana (common persimmon)
Connecticut and South

Euonymus (garden shrub)...... 0 ....-..20---005- Milton
Euonymus Bungeanus................-.- Northern China
Euonymus radicans........ .... ... ...Northern Japan
Halimodendron argenteum...... esa Goce wena . Siberia
Hamamelis japonica... ......0 66.0 cece eee cee eee Japan
Hamamelis virginiana Gana hazel) ip Bier e Meat ae, .. Milton
Hypericum—several species................... ..Milton
Ilex opaca (holly)................ abbey Petes . .Quincy
**Tlex verticillata (black alder)........ ....... ....Milton
**Juniperus communis (ground juniper). ......... Milton
**Juniperus virginiana (red cedar).... . .......... Milton
Larix americana (larch tree)... . .... ...  ... .Milton
Lespedeza—several species.... ..............00-05: Milton
Ligustrum amurense (privet)......... .. Northeastern Asia
Ligustrum ibota..... ............ phi eats ams ateaa ate Japan
Ligustrum vulgare... .. 2.2.2... 2-0 cece eee Europe
Lonicera Maackii............... 0 ....... China and Japan
Lycium chinense...... Rin Sisk eah te Acre dagen Northern China
Lyonia mariana........ ... ....... Eastern United States
***Malus floribunda (Chinese crab-apple)............ China
Menispermum canadense........... Eastern North America
*Myrica carolinensis (bayberry). = ............... Canton
Phellodendron sachalinense.... .. ....Northeastern Asia
Physocarpus opulifolius....... .............0-0-0005 Asia
Picea excelsa (Norway spruce)......... putes aldara Milton
*Pinus rigida (Pitch pine). hen BEC ed ke .. Milton
*Pinus Strobus (white pine)....  .........-.... .. Milton
Plantago major (plantain)... ..... acs Geese tieee ...Milton
***Prunus virginiana (choke cherry)................ Milton

(Tent caterpillar egg clusters eaten by chickadees) Milton

* These are especially attractive to birds. Three stars indicate special
favorites.
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NAME LocaLItTy
Ptelea trifoliata. ... ...... ae elie Aue Neh te heen Milton
**Pyrus aucuparia (European mountain ash)........ Milton
*Rhamnus cathartica (Buckthorn).... ... ......... Milton
Rhamnus dahurica.. ........ .... ...Northwestern Asia
Rhododendron canescens (pink azalea)... ........ . Milton
Rhodotypos tetrapetala... 9.1.2.2... Jesse, .China
***Rhus glabra (smooth sumac). ....... .... ...Milton
***Rhus toxicodendron (poisonivy). ....... ....... Milton
**Rosa (rose hips)—several species....... .... ...-Milton
Rudbeckia hirta.. ..  .......... wees wee. .... Milton
Rumex (dock)—several species..... Lashes. habeas Telos Milton
*Smilax (cat Drier). 2... cc cae cee e cece uu dv ieee nas Milton
Solanum Dulcamara (night shade)................. Milton
Solidago (goldenrod)—several species........ ....... Milton
Sophora japonica (a tree). .......... 0.02. eee eee China
Sorbaria sorbifolia. .. ....... ....... Siberia and Japan
Sorbus americana (mountain ash).................. Milton
Spirza tomentosa..... ..... ..... Eastern North America
Spruce. 2. 0... ee eee Western United States
Symphoricarpos racemosus (snowberry)........ ....Milton
Symphoricarpos orbiculatus...................-.-. Milton
Syringa (lilac)—several species... ........:........ Milton
Tanacetum vulgare (tansy). .... 0 ...........000.. Milton
*Thuja occidentalis (arbor vitee or white cedar)..... Milton
*Tsuga canadensis (hemlock cones)................. Milton
***Vaccinium (blueberry)—several species........... Milton
Verbascum Thapsus (mullein).. ..... wo... ee. ....Milton
**Viburnum.............. MOGs tea ard . Milton
**Viburnum dilatatum........... .... .China and Japan

**Viburnum Lentago (nanny berry)
Northeastern North America

Viburnum Opulus (tree cranberry)
Northeastern North America

Many persons have asked, ‘‘ Which bird feeds on which
berry or fruit?’’ Some work along this line has been

* These are especially attractive to birds. Three stars indicate special
favorites.
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done. The best treatises we know of are “Plants
Useful to Attract Birds and Protect Fruit,” by W. T.
McAtee, of the Biological Survey, Department of
Agriculture, Washington, D. C., and “‘ Useful Birds and
Their Protection,” by E. H. Forbush, Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture. In general, however, it may be
said that, when food is scarce, practically everything
included in the above list is eaten by birds; when food
is plenty, of course, they tend to pick and choose. The
mulberry trees, the mountain ash, and the Chinese
crab-apple are three known favorites, and very decorative
on home grounds. The high-bush blueberry, flowering
dogwood, and the cornels are also favorites, and should
be planted in clumps for shelter.

In Sweden, it is customary at Christmas time to tie
a sheaf of oats for the birds on the balconies of the
houses. This custom is coming into favor in Milton.
In fact, one member of our Club has grown a field of
oats for this purpose, as last year it was impossible to
get the oats on the stalk.

“Bird Breakfast Foods”

A collection of grains and cereals was to supplement
Nature’s method and show how man can feed the birds
when deep snow covers their normal food supply. It
is well known that a well-fed bird rarely dies in winter;
at is starvation and cold that kill.

Japanese millet and hemp seed are considered the
two seeds best suited to our native birds, but all we
showed are eagerly eaten. The collection in itself was
instructive to show the differences in the various
grains. How many of us know Japanese, French, and
German millet at sight?

We reached an unexpected element in the community
by this section of the exhibit. Classes in commercial
geography came to see the various grains of commerce
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about which they had been studying. Many a teacher
would thank you to have such a collection to loan in
rotation to the schools of your town. Our exhibition
collection was later divided into four sets, and one given
to the Brookline Bird Club, one to the Children’s Mu-
seum at Jamaica Plain, and one to the Milton Academy.
Our fourth set we have retained in order to circulate
it as aloan. It contains the following:

List OF GRAINS, DRIED Fruits, Etc.

Prickly ash berries, 60 cents per Ib., Neal & Co., 13 Union
St., Boston.

Barley, 4 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston. :

Buckwheat, 4 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston.

Burdock seed, about 25 cents per Ib., G. S. Cheney & Co.,
15 Union St., Boston.

Canary seed, 10 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Crimson clover, 12 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Cracked corn, 2 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Kaffir-corn, 3 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston.

Pop-corn, 5-lb. lots, 5 cents per lb., McLellen & Brigham Co.,
50-51-52 Chatham St., Boston.

Cranberries, at any grocery.

Dried currants, 10 cents a package at any grocery.

Ant eggs, $1.00 per quart, Holden’s Bird Store, 15 Bromfield
St., Boston.

Dried elderberries, 35 cents per lb. (order Sept. or Oct.),
G. S. Cheney & Co., 15 Union St., Boston.

Hemp, 6 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston.

Maw-Poppy seed, 12 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.
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French white millet, 12 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons,
51-52 North Market St., Boston.

German millet, 4 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Japanese millet, 10 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Oats, 5 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North Market
St., Boston.

Rolled oats, 4 cents per lb., at any grocery.

Cow peas, 7 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston.

Broken Spanish peanuts, 5-Ib. lots—io cents per Ib.; 120-lb.
lots—63 cents per Ilb., McLellan & Brigham Co., 50-51-52
Chatham St., Boston.

German rape seed, 8 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons,
51-52 North Market St., Boston.

Dried raspberries, 45 cents per Ib., Eastern Drug Co., Boston.

Rice, at any grocery.

Unhulled rice, 10 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-32
North Market St., Boston.

Wild rice, 35 cents per Ib., 25-lb. lots at 32 cents per lb.,
100-lb. lots at 28 cents per Ib., Clyde B. Terrell, R. F. D. 5,
Oshkosh, Wis.

Winter rye, 3 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51~52 North
Market St., Boston.

Soya beans, 6 cents per Ib., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52 North
Market St., Boston.

Squash. (Save the seeds when you have a squash. The
birds are very fond of them.)

Sumac berries (Rhus glabra), 60 cents per lb., Jaynes Drug
Store. (Easily collected on Milton pastures and roadsides
free of expense.)

Russian sunflower seeds, 7 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons,
51-52 North Market St., Boston.

Winter vetch, 12 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.

Cracked wheat, 12 cents per package, at any grocery.

Winter wheat, 4 cents per lb., Jos. Breck & Sons, 51-52
North Market St., Boston.
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Ash seeds. Partridge berries.
Dried mulberries. Barn loft sweepings.

HOME-MADE BIRD PUDDING

An excellent and economical food, because hardly a
crumb is wasted, is the Home-made Bird Pudding.
The recipe for this, as we made it, follows: it is practi-
cally the Von Berlepsch bird food as it appears in the
Meriden Bird Club Report. Great latitude is possible
in making this food, but the hemp, meat, bread, and
fat are essential. The fat must be melted and the dry
materials stirred in thoroughly.

White bread (dried and ground), 43 oz.
Meat (scrap chicken food), 3 oz.

Hemp seed, 6 oz.

Maw (poppy seed), 3 oz.

Millet (white French), 3 oz.

Japanese millet, 3 oz.

Oats, 13 oz.

Dried elderberry, 14 oz.

Sunflower seeds, 13 oz.

Suet, twice total bulk.

A bird tree is prepared by pouring this mixture hot
over an old Christmas tree. This hot soup should be
put on a dead tree only, as it will kill any living one.

A food stick is made by making a series of auger
holes in a log and filling the holes with this mixture
when hot. When it cools, the material can be picked
out by the birds, but squirrels and crows cannot carry
it off in bulk.

This pudding can also be served in shallow pans or in
solid pieces in feeding stations or tied in loose meshed
bags as suet is.
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The English Sparrows—What Shall We Do With Them

Many bird lovers are agreed that English sparrows
drive away our native song birds, and should be looked
upon as a pest. Some persons poison them, but we
feel this is risky, and in many cases may be dangerous
to other animal life. Shooting is effective, as they
soon seem to sense the fact that they are unwelcome,
and move away. We commend, however, the sparrow
trap. These traps can be obtained from Joseph H.
Dodson, Suite 1201-5, 19 La Salle St., Chicago, Ul., at
$5 each; or from Jacobs Bird House Co., 404 Washington
St., Waynesburg, Pa., at $4 each. Both these manu-
facturers model their traps from the Government spar-
row trap designed by the United States Department of
Agriculture. Details and patterns are shown in the
fourth annual report of the state ornithologist, Mr.
Edward Howe Forbush, 1911, issued by the Massachu-
setts Department of Agriculture. We would also call
attention to the Farmers Bulletins 389 and 493, published
by the Bureau of Biological Survey, Department of
Agriculture, entitled, ‘‘The English Sparrow,’ and
‘““How to Destroy English Sparrows.”’

Books and Bird Articles

A few books and pamphlets were displayed, as ex-
amples of standard works easily obtainable at moderate
prices. Many valuable books are necessarily omitted
from a list of this scope: this list is simply a nucleus for
an exhibition or library. We wish to emphasize the im-
portance of the literature issued by the National and
the State Audubon Societies, as well as that of the
Department of Agriculture at Washington, and the
Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. In addition
to the books and pamphlets there were also displayed
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some newspaper articles that showed the popular inter-
est in bird protection.

Birp Booxs*
First and Second Reports of the Meriden Bird Club.

Useful Birds and their Protection, by Edward Howe For-
bush, Mass. State Board of Agriculture, 1907, State House,
Boston. Price, $1.00.

Game Birds, Wild Fowl and Shore Birds, by Edward Howe
Forbush, Mass. State Board of Agriculture, 1912, State
House, Boston. Price $1.00.

Methods of Attracting Birds, by Gilbert H. Trafton.
Houghton Mifflin Co. Price, $1.25.

Bird Guide, Part I. Water Birds—Game Birds and Birds
of Prey East of the Rockies, by Chester A. Reed. W. B.
Clarke Co., 26-28 Tremont St., Boston. Price $1—leather,
75c—paper.

Bird Guide, Part II. Land Birds East of the Rockies from
Parrots to Bluebirds, by Chester A. Reed. W. B. Clarke Co.,
26-28 Tremont St., Boston. Price $1—leather, 75c—paper.

A Guide to the Birds of New England and Eastern New
York, by Ralph Hoffmann. Houghton Mifflin Co. Price $1.50.

Teachers’ Manual of Bird Life. Three portfolios of colored
plates by Frank M. Chapman. D. Appleton & Co. Price
$4.00

Bird-Lore. Edited by Frank M. Chapman. An excellent
magazine—$1 per year. Subscribe—Massachusetts Audubon
Society, 234 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass.

How to Attract and Protect Wild Birds, by Martin Hiese-
mann. A full description of successful methods. 3rd Edition
Revised. On sale at the Massachusetts Audubon Society,
234 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass. Price 5oc.

Pocket List of Birds of Eastern Massachusetts. Albert P.
Morse, Curator of Natural History, Peabody Museum, Salem
Mass. 50c.

Audubon Bird Charts, with explanatory pamphlets, pub-

*During the weeks of the exhibition the Librarian assembled in the

Reading Room a selection of bird books and issued special bulletins,
listing bird books for adults and also for children.
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lished by Milton Bradley Co., 120 Boylston St., Boston.
Price $1.50 each.

Birds for School and Home. Folio 1-2-3-4, published by
Milton Bradley Co., 120 Boylston St., Boston. Price 25 cents
per folio. Excellent for the children rainy days.

Handbook of the Birds of Eastern North America, by Frank
M. Chapman. D. Appleton & Co., New York and London,
1914. Price $3.50.

Birds of Town and Country, by Henry W. Henshaw, with
drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, May, 1914.

Fifty Common Birds of Farm and Orchard, by Henry W.
Henshaw, with drawings by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, June, 1913.

Encouraging Birds around the Home, by Frederic H.
Kennard, March, 1914.

Our Greatest Travellers: Birds that Fly from Pole to Pole;
Birds that Make 2,500 Miles in a Single Flight, by Wells W.
Cooke, April, 1911.

(These last four reprints have been issued by the National
Geographic Society, Washington, D. C., in one volume,
“Common Birds of Town and Country.”’ Price $1.)

List of Plants Attractive to Birds, by Frederic H. Kennard.
Bird-Lore, July-August number, 1912.

How the Birds Help the Farmer, published by American
Humane Educational Society, 45 Milk St., Boston.

State Forests as Bird Sanctuaries, by William P. Wharton,
American Forestry, March, 1914.

A check-list of North American birds, prepared by a com-
mittee of the American Ornithologists’ Union, third edition
revised—‘‘ Zodlogical nomenclature is a means, not an end, of
Zodlogical Science.” Ornithologists’ Union, New York, 1910.
Familiarly known as the A. O. U. check-list of North American
birds. Price $2.75 net.

The Auk, quarterly journal of Ornithology, published by the
American Ornithologists’ Union, Cambridge, Mass. Sub-
scription, $3 per year. Address, Jonathan Dwight, Jr., 134
West 7Ist St., New York.

“The Migration of Birds,’’ by T. A. Coward, Cambridge: at
The University Press. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons,
1912. In the series entitled The Cambridge Manuals of
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Science and Literature. Price 40 cents. Contains a bibli-
ography including 55 titles on the subject.

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Washington, D. C.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 513, Fifty Common Birds of Farm
and Orchard.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 493, The English Sparrow as a Pest.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 497, Some Common Game, Aquatic
and Rapacious Birds in Relation to Man.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 456, Our Grosbeaks and Their Value
to Agriculture.

Farmers’ Bulletin No. 54, Some Common Birds and Their
Relation to Agriculture.

Plants Useful to Attract Birds and Protect Fruit. Reprint
from yearbook for 1909.

Our Meadow Larks in Relation to Agriculture. Reprint
from yearbook 1912.

*Bureau of Biological Survey, Circular No. 92, Henry W.
Henshaw, Chief of Bureau, Proposed Regulations for Protec-
tion of Migratory Birds, issued June 23, 1913.

*No. 93, Explanation of the Proposed Regulations for the
Protection of Migratory Birds, issued June 23, 1913.

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF AUDUBON SOCIETIES
1794 Broadway, New York City

Bulletin No. 1, March 1914, price Ioc. Attracting Birds
about the Home. Includes (1) Our Avian Creditors, by
Ernest Harold Baynes. (2) The Winter Feeding of Birds, by
Mabel Osgood Wright. (3) Bringing the Winter Birds about
our Homes, by Edward Howe Forbush. (4) Putting up Bird
Boxes,—How to Make and Where to Place Them, by Beecher
S. Bowdish.

Educational Leaflets of four pages of descriptive text, a
separate colored plate and a separate outline on drawing paper
intended to be colored, 2c each; $18 per thousand in lots of
500 or more of one subject. 75 bird subjects are illustrated.

* See Appendix A, pages 93 and 100.
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Stereopticon Slides of birds. One hundred and fifty sub-
jects are listed in the catalogue of lantern slides obtainable
from the National Association at 80c per slide. This series
probably includes the gems of bird photography.

The Cat, What Shall We Do with It, compiled by M.S. and
L. A. Lacey, issued by the Audubon Society, State of Con-
necticut, Fairfield, Conn. Obtainable from the National Asso-
ciation of Audubon Societies. A plea for the licensing of cats.
An important and vital subject.

The Horrors of the Plume Trade, by William Dutcher.

A special department to which we would call attention is
the Junior Audubon Classes. The National Societies are
making a special campaign to enlist the sympathy and awaken
the interest of the children of the country in bird-life.

Anyone interested should send for lists which include sub-
jects and prices.

MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY
234 Berkeley St., Boston, Mass.

Save the Birds, by William Dutcher, Treasurer of American
Ornithologists’ Union.

Woman’s Heartlessness, by Celia Thaxter.

The Cost of a Feather, by Mrs. May Riley Smith. Paper
read at the Annual Convention at New York City, Federation
of Women’s Clubs, 1907.

First Principles of Bird Protection, leaflet.

Helps to Bird Study, pamphlet.

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS STATE BOARD OF
AGRICULTURE

Nature Leaflet No. 12, 3rd edition revised. Winter Birds
on the Farm.

No. 15, 4th edition. Bird Houses.

No. 22, 4th edition revised. Hints for Outdoor Bird
Study—How to identify birds.

No. 23, 4th edition revised. Hints for Outdoor Bird
Study—How to find birds.

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No. 24, Hints for Outdoor Bird Study—How to approach
birds.

No. 25, Hints for Outdoor Bird Study—How to attract birds.

Fourth Annual Report of the State Ornithologist, E. H.
Forbush.

NEWSPAPER ARTICLES FROM ‘‘BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT”

Must Conserve Birds. Strong appeal by the State Orni-
thologist, Edward H. Forbush, in illustrated lecture before
the Horticultural Society, Jan. 3, 1914.

The Birds’ Promised Land. The Meriden Idea as Ernest
Harold Baynes is working it out, April 30, 1913.

Brookline after Woodpeckers, Winthrop Packard, April
II, 1914.

World’s Peace for the Birds, Europe following our lead to
halt the plumage trade, Winthrop Packard, March 28, 1914.

After the Tent Caterpillar. Birds and school children hunt
these troublesome pests, Winthrop Packard, Jan. 3, 1914.

Evening Grosbeaks, distinguished visitors at Quincy from
the far northwest, Winthrop Packard, April 18, 1914.

Milton’s Bird Protection Exhibit, Winthrop Packard,
Jan. 24, 1914.

The Bird Warden in Poetry and Practice, Percy MacKaye’s
“Faun”’ played in Real Life by the New Appointee at Dover,
Winthrop Packard, Feb. 14, 1914.

The Leopard Moth. How this mighty midget has attacked
the trees on Boston Common, by Alice Shay, April 18, 1914.

Attracting Birds and Planning Sanctuaries, by Bradford
A. Scudder, Secretary of the Mass. Fish & Game Protective
Association, May 23, 1914.

Bird Portraits

A collection of the bird pictures in colors, issued by
George P. Brown & Co., Beverly, Mass., and obtainable
at two cents each, was used freely to cover wall space,
and brighten the exhibit. Some five hundred different
subjects are represented in their catalogue list. The
three Audubon charts were also useful for decoration
and instruction.
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Many of the pictures exhibited were not of native
birds, but striking examples of form and color in bird
life were used. The children and other visitors to the
exhibition were urged to visit the Aviary at Franklin
Park where many strange living birds can be seen.
Attention also was directed to our great bird collections
in the Boston Society of Natural History, the Peabody
Museum, Salem, and the Reed collection at Green Hill
Park, Worcester, etc.

THE CHILDREN’S COLOR WorRK

To interest the children educational leaflets issued by
the National Association of Audubon Societies, which
consist of a folder with descriptive text, a lithograph
picture of a bird and an outline drawing to be colored
in, were given out gratis from the children’s room of
the Public Library. The outline drawings were returned
by the children after they had been filled in. Thirteen
kinds of birds were used—cardinal, rose-breasted gros-
beak, scarlet tanager, bluejay, bluebird, redwing black-
bird, Baltimore oriole, song sparrow, barn swallow,
bobolink, robin, bob-white, and snowflake.

Seven hundred and fifty such outlines were returned,
and contributed a very interesting feature to the Bird
Club exhibit. It is obvious that regardless of the crude
way the children may fill in these outlines, they will
know the bird and be on the watch for him when he
arrives in the spring. The Club exhibited these plates
done by the children of the township during the sum-
mer months, in the Milton Public Library.

While the plates were on exhibition, Mr. Cyrus E.
Dallin, the sculptor, and Mr. Frank T. Merrill, the
artist, performed a generous service by judging the
work of the children. They spent an entire evening
inspecting the pictures and selecting those worthy of
praise. The honor list was published in the local paper.
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In the fall, the honor list plates, colored by the chil-
dren, were bound in one volume and placed in the chil-
dren’s room of the Milton Public Library. This course
was adopted for three reasons:

1. We want the children to recognize that they per-
sonally contributed to the bird work going on in the
township.

2. We feel that the moral lesson to the individual
child of doing something for the Public Library of the
town is good.

3. We are securing from the interest in these plates
the attendance at the library of persons who had never
before stepped foot in the building.

Here again is shown a far-reaching influence which was
not dreamed of when the exhibition was planned.

Bird Games for Children or Adults

There are several games and amusements that will
help interest children and adults in bird life.

Tack upon trees about the house or indoors a series
of the Brown pictures of birds, having each carefully
numbered. Supply a check list to each one playing
the game. Give prizes to those correctly listing the
greatest number of the bird pictures. At the State
Bird Day meeting at Worcester, July 22, 1914, three
persons correctly named sixty-eight out of a possible
seventy-one.

THE CARDBOARD OUTLINES FOR MAKING BIRDS

Milton Bradley Co., 120 Boylston St., issue ‘‘ Birds
for School and Home,”’ folios 1, 2, 3, 4, 25c each. These
are outlines of birds to be cut from cardboard
and colored by the children: when pasted together they
make excellent birds. They can readily be used to
acquaint little children with the birds and should be a
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great help to weary parents on rainy days. Forty birds,
with directions for coloring each, are included in this
series.

BIRDS FOR SCHOOL AND HoME, BY MAUDE ADELAIDE
WRIGHT

Four folios have been published:

Folio I. Spring birds.
Robin, Bluebird, Blackbird, Song Sparrow, Barn Swal-
low, Scarlet Tanager, Grosbeak, Goldfinch, Meadowlark,
Brown Thrasher.

Folio II. Summer birds.
Woodthrush, Phoebe, Catbird, Kingfisher, Humming-
bird, Kingbird, Chewink, Chimney-swift, Redstart,
Maryland Yellowthroat.

Folio III. Summer birds.
Oriole, Ovenbird, Cuckoo, Purple Finch, Cowbird, Red-
headed Woodpecker, Yellow Warbler, Bobolink, Yellow-
throated Vireo, Cardinal.

Folio IV. Winter birds.
Bluejay, Brown Creeper, Downy Woodpecker, English
Sparrow, Flicker, Chicadee, Cedarbird, White-breasted
Nuthatch, Shrike, Junco.

Another very interesting set of birds for children to
cut out are the Beard Birds. These are life size cut
outs with adjustable wings made to stand up. Each
bird is printed on a card the prevailing color of the
bird; the other colors are to be filled in. These plates
are endorsed by school authorities and Audubon socie-
ties. Set of 12 boards, net, $1.00; postpaid, $1.10.
Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York City, N. Y. Same
in envelopes, loose sheets, as follows:

No. 1. Bluebird, Redwing Blackbird, Baltimore Oriole.

No. 2. Robin, Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager.

No. 3. American Goldfinch, Meadowlark, Black and
White Creeper.
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No. 4. Yellow-breasted Chat. Red-headed Woodpecker;
Mocking-bird.

Each envelope, net, 25c, postpaid, 30c.

Game of Birds—The Cincinnati Game Co., Cincinnati,
Ohio, 25c per pack, 52 cards. On sale J. S. Hammett Co.,
250 Devonshire St., Boston.
NATIONAL AND STATE GAME LAWS

The Weeks-McLean Law * for the protection of migra-
tory birds may or may not be responsible for the fact
that we have this year all over New England more
bluebirds and robins than we have had for many years.
The reason we need bird protection and why each
and all can aid in the work is the fact that
many, species have become extinct, and others are
doomed to destruction unless a far-reaching and active
work is carried on to save them. The Weeks-McLean
law is a good law, but like every other good law needs
to be rigidly enforced. We can all help. Do what
you can to spread the Bird Conservation work.

Because of the importance of the game laws, it seemed
wise to have on exhibition the texts of the laws both
Federal and State, and also the cloth signst relating to
these laws, used for posting property. In Massachu-
setts we would call particular attention to Chapter 410,
Acts of 1911, providing for the establishment of reser-
vations for the protection of birds and animals, and
Chapter 296, approved March 19, 1913, relating to the
appointment of Bird Wardens. Dover has the honor
of having appointed the first bird warden in Massa-
chusetts under this act.

Bird Warden Act
CHAPTER 296

An act to provide for the better protection of crops from insect pests
Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Cities by a vote of the city council, and towns by a vote at
town meeting, may appropriate money for the protection and

*See Appendix A, pages 93 and 100.
} Any one who wishes these posters for use may obtain them gratis
from the various societies which issue them.

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encouragement of birds which live upon insects injurious to
crops and trees. Such protection and encouragement may
include the appointment and payment of bird wardens. (Ap-
proved March 19, 1913.)

Bird Reservation Acts

The bird reservations as shown on the map of Mass-
achusetts were established under the Acts of 1902, 1909,
and 1911. These Acts, also the texts of the cloth posters
used upon such property, are here given in full. Any
one interested in the subject of bird reservations should
study these laws and posters. Have you a reservation
in your area? Is it adequate or do you need more
acreage? Post yourself on these matters and help the
cause by seeing that proper protection is given the birds
in your vicinity.

CHAPTER 178, AcTS of 1902
Investigations.

The authority of the commissioners on fisheries and game
shall extend to the investigation of questions relating to fish
and fisheries, or to game, and they may from time to time,
personally or by assistants, institute and conduct inquiries
pertaining to such questions.

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
THe COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
No TRESPASSING
Under Chapter 178, Acts of 1902, the Commissioners on
Fisheries and Game have authorized the occupation and use
of this area for making scientific investigations upon the propa-
gation of all useful wild life. According to the provisions of
Chapter 327, Acts of 1906, whoever, without right, enters upon
or trespasses upon this property or mutilates this notice is
liable to imprisonment or a fine to the extent of the law.
GEORGE W. FIELD,
GrorGE H. GARFIELD,
[SEAL] GeEorGE H. GRAHAM,
Commissioners on Fisheries and Game.
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CHAPTER 362, ACTS OF 1909

State reservations are refuges for birds and game

SECTION 1. No person shall hunt, pursue, take, kill or in any
manner molest or destroy any wild birds or game within the
exterior boundaries of any state reservation, park, common or
any land held in trust for public use, except that the authori-
ties or persons having the control and charge of such reserva-
tions, parks, commons, or other lands may in their discretion,
and with such limitations as they may deem advisable, author-
ize persons to hunt, take or kill within said boundaries any wild
birds or animals which are not now protected by law. Such
authorizations shall be by written license, and the license shall
be revokable at the pleasure of the authorities or persons
granting it.

SECTION 2. The boards, officials and persons having charge
of reservations, parks, commons and lands held for public use
shall enforce the provisions of this act.

SECTION 3. Every violation of any provision of this act shall
be punished by a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

CHAPTER 410, ACTS OF IQII

Establishment of state bird and game preserves and the protection
and propagation of wild birds and quadrupeds

SECTION I. For the purpose of protecting any species of
useful wild birds or quadrupeds, and for aiding the propaga-
tion thereof, the board of commissioners on fisheries and game
may acquire in fee by purchase, gift or devise, or may lease,
or, with the consent of the owners, may control any land,
water or shore or the right to use the same, including the right
of the public in such land or on such water or shore, as a bird
and game preserve.

SECTION 2. For the purposes aforesaid the said commis-
sioners, upon a petition filed with them by the mayor and
aldermen of a city or the selectmen of a town, or by one or
more owners of land, water or shore, if satisfied of the suitable
character and situation of the same, may, with the consent of
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the owners, order a close season for one or more periods, not
exceeding five years each, on all wild birds and quadrupeds
within the area or any part thereof specified in the petition.
But before making any order under such petition, the com-
missioners shall give a public hearing upon the matter at some
place in or near the territory under consideration, of which
meeting and of their intention in the matter notice shall be
given by publication once a week for two successive weeks in
one or more newspapers published in the county or counties
embracing the territory, the last publication to be at least
seven days prior to the time fixed for the hearing.

SECTION 3. In respect to any territory acquired or controlled
as above provided or any territory upon which a close season
has been ordered as above provided, the said commissioners
may make such use of the land, water or shore within the
territory as they may deem best for the purpose of improving
the feeding and nesting environment of birds or game, and
may from time to time make such rules and regulations relat-
ing to such territory as may seem to them proper, and such
rules and regulations when approved by the governor and
council shall have the force of laws. The said commissioners
are authorized to liberate birds within the limits of the said
reservations, and, when in their opinion such action is advisa-
ble, to co-operate with land owners within such territory in
experiments in the propagation of birds or quadrupeds.

SECTION 4. The said commissioners may appoint deputies
to enforce the provisions of this act and any rules and regula-
tions made hereunder, and may authorize in writing any such
deputy or the owner or occupant of any land within any such
territory to hunt, pursue, trap, snare or kill within the said
territory, and under the direction of the said commissioners
any quadrupeds or birds which they may consider harmful to
birds and game or to agriculture, or to take or remove the nests
or eggs of any such bird.

SEcTION 5. If any order is made by the commissioners as
aforesaid establishing a close season or. a preserve as above
provided, the commission shall cause a copy of the order to
be published once a week for two successive weeks in one or
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more newspapers published in the county or counties embrac-
ing the territory, and shall cause copies of the order to be
posted in conspicuous places within the cities or towns in which
the territory is situated, and also within the limits of the terri-
tory itself. If a great pond or any part thereof or any sea-
shore is included within the territory as to which a close season
is ordered as aforesaid, a copy of the order shall be filed in the
office of the clerk of any city or town bordering upon the pond
or seashore, and also in the office of the secretary of the com-
monwealth. An order made by the commission in accordance
with the provisions hereof shall take effect, when it is posted
as above provided. Any order made in accordance with the
provisions hereof shall contain a full description of the terri-
tory so established, and the period for which it is closed, if any
such period is adopted.

SECTION 6. The commissioners may annually expend, in
carrying out the provisions of this act, such sum as the general
court may from year to year appropriate, which shall be paid
out of the treasury of the commonwealth.

SECTION 7. Whenever a territory has been established as a
preserve or when a close season has been established upon a
territory by an order as above provided, it shall be unlawful
for any person, except as above provided, to molest, hunt,
pursue, take or kill any bird or quadruped within the said
territory, or therein to disturb or injure any nest, eggs, or
young or to remove the eggs or young from the nest.

SECTION 8. The entrance of any person with a firearm or
any device adapted for killing or injuring any birds or quad-
rupeds or with a trap or snare upon any territory established
as a preserve, or upon any territory upon which a close season
has been established, according to the provisions of this act
shall be prima facie evidence of a violation of the provisions
of this act.

SECTION 9. Whoever violates any provision of this act or of
any rule or regulation made hereunder shall be punished by a
fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment
for not more than sixty days, or by both such fine and impris-
onment.
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Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
STATE RESERVATION

according to provisions of Chapter 410, Acts of I911
ALL WILD BIRDS AND QUADRUPEDS IN THIS AREA ARE
PROTECTED

“The Entrance of Any Person with a Firearm, or Any Device
Adapted for Killing or Injuring Birds or Quadrupeds is For-
bidden.”’

Help to protect your useful birds and quadrupeds. Pre-
vent forest fires, and molestation of nests, eggs and young, by
man or beast.

Notify the local authorities, or the Commissioners, of any
damage to wild life or property.

G. W. FIELD,
G. H. GRAHAM,
W. C. ADAMs,

Commissioners on Fisheries and Game.
[SEAL]

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

For the PROTECTION and PROPAGATION of WILD BirDs and
QUADRUPEDS this area has been made a STATE RESERVATION
(According to the Provisions of Chap. 410, Acts of I9I1).

TRESPASSING FORBIDDEN

Under penalty of fine or imprisonment or both.

GEORGE W. FIELD,
GEoRGE H. GRAHAM,
WILLIAM C. ADAMs,

Commissioners on Fisheries and Game.
[SEAL]
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The question has been raised as to the rights of the
owner of land under such an Act, and whether or not
the State in any way can control the title. The following
letter makes this clear:

THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
COMMISSIONERS ON FISHERIES AND GAME

StaTE HousE

Boston, July 28, 1914.
Dr. Harris KENNEDY,
READVILLE, Mass.

Dear Sir:

Enclosed herewith I send you a copy of Chapter 410, Acts
of 1911 providing for the establishment of reservations for the
protection of birds and animals.

Our interpretation of the word “‘control”’ is that it shall not
in any way act as a lien upon the land, but refers only to con-
trol of the wild life and its protection; that it does not affect
any of the lawful uses or practices of the owner except that of
hunting and trapping.

Our activities would extend only to planting such small
areas as our appropriations from time to time permitted and
as the owner consented, to such shrubs and plants as are par-
ticularly valuable as food for wild birds. In addition, we
should hope to furnish nesting sites for various species of wild
birds. We may be able to introduce some species of wild
ducks or pheasants where the location appeared favorable.
We should endeavor to patrol the ground against trespassers
and extend some protection against forest fires. We should
endeavor to reduce as far as possible the number of enemies
of the birds.

We understand that while this agreement may be termin-
ated at any time by either party, it is not our intention to
develop a game preserve for any individual or for corporations
or associations at the public expense. We enter into the
agreement with the owner with the understanding that the
arrangement, that not even the owner or his friends shoot upon
the property, is a relatively permanent one, so far as any one
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person can render possible, and is undertaken by the owner
rather for the purpose of rendering a public service than for
securing for himself or his friends special privileges. Should,
however, at any time necessity require that the property be
leased or sold, we understand that this agreement does not
bind the new lessee or purchaser and that the agreement does
not constitute a lien upon the land.
Yours very truly,
(Signed) G. W. FIELD,
Chairman.

Enclosures:

Chapter 410.

Copy of Italian Poster.

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
ANNUNZIO *

Le persone straniere, non naturalizzate, dovranno procurarst
permesso officiale per far caccia di uccelli O animali quadrupedi.

Atti del 1905—Capitolo 317 quale ammendato da atti del
1910—Capitolo 614.

““SEZIONE I. Sara illegale persona oriunda straniera e non
naturalizzata di far caccia, inseguire, trappolare od uccidere
qualsiasi uccello o quadrupede selvaggio entro i limiti del
Commonwealth (Stato) a meno che tale persona abbia per-
messo di caccia come provvisto nel seguente articolo.”’

Estratto dalla sezione 2a.

“Tale permesso sara valevole per il solo perido dell’ anno
in cui la selvaggina puo essere uccisa ed e legalmente permesso
la caccia e l’uccidere selvaggina sotto le resteizioni e per tali
usu quali sono imposti ed autorizzati dalla legge.”

Cerie Speci Di Uccelli E Quadrupedi Non Possono Essere
Uccisi in Qualsiasi Stagione ed il Trappolare in Qualsiasi Modo
E Assolutamenta Proibito in Qualsiast Tempo.

Sotto pena di multa di non meno di Dieci (¢10) ne piu di
Cinquanta ($50) dollari.

Il distaccare o disfigurare questo annunzio condurra alla
multa di Venti cinque ($25) dollari.

COMMISSIONERS ON FISHERIES AND GAME.

*See Appendix F, page 120.
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ITALIANI *

Ovunque noi siamo regni Ordine, Pace ed Affeto—

Ordine significa Obbedienza alle Leggi—

Pace ed Affetto nascono dal Rispetto agli altrue Sentimenti-—

La legge protegge l’innocenza—La legge protegge gli uccelli
di canto—

Il sentimento dei nostri ospiti domanda amore e protezione
per i vaghi uccelletti che tanto ajutano a render la campagna
fertile, attraente e gioiosa—

Disobbedienza alle leggi porta onerose multe!

Disobbedienza ai giusti sentimenti dei nostri ospiti condanna
al disprezzo!

Non Multe! Non Disprezzo!
Non si uccidano Uccelli.
L’Italiano crea, non distrugge, il Bello.

L’Italiano ama il Canto.
Si risparmino i vaghi cantori dei boschi e delle valli.
Si rispetti leggi e sentimenti.

Non devastare ma costruire—Non crudelta ma tenerazza!
La caccia degli uccelli di canto e probita ad agni tempo
sotto multa di dieci dollari.
Tutti i forestieri devono avere permesso di caccia, sotto
multa di venti dollari.
GEORGE W. FIELD,
Epwarp A. BRACKETT,
Joun W. DELANO,
Commissioners on Fisheries and Game
of the State of Massachusetts.

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
Post in a conspicuous place

WARNING

Song and insectivorous birds, gulls, terns and herons, as
well as their nests and eggs, are protected by the laws of Massa-

*See Appendix F, page 121.
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chusetts. The PENALTY for a violation of the law is a fine of
Ten Do.vars for each bird destroyed and each nest disturbed.

Massachusetts Audubon Society
Office: Boston Society of Natural History, Berkeley Street
American Ornithologists’ Union
Office: 525 Manhattan Avenue, New York City

The public are requested to report violations of this law to
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission, State House,
Boston.

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
NOTICE

HUNTING, SHOOTING, TRAPPING OR TRESPASSING ON THIS
PROPERTY IS FORBIDDEN
as Provided in
Chapter 92 of the Revised Laws

SECTION 14. Whoever, for the purpose of shooting or trap-
ping, enters upon land without the permission of the owner
thereof, after such owner has conspicuously posted thereon
notice that shooting or trapping thereon is prohibited, shall be
punished by a fine of not more than twenty dollars.

Per order of THE OWNER.

Migratory song and insectivorous birds as well as their nests
and eggs are protected by the laws of the United States at all
seasons. The penalty for a violation of the law is a fine of one
hundred dollars, ninety days’ imprisonment, or both.

The State laws protect song and insectivorous birds, gulls,

terns and herons at all times.
The public are requested to report any violation of the laws

protecting birds to the
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY
234 Berkeley Street, Boston, Mass.

These cloth posters will be furnished free on application to
the Society.
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Cardboard Poster

PROTECTION OF BIRDS

It is estimated that the destruction in the United States
caused by insect pests amounts to from eight to nine hundred
million dollars a year.

I hereby offer TWENTY prizes of $10 each and Forty prizes
of $5 each, for evidence by which our Massachusetts Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals shall convict per-
sons of violating the laws of Massachusetts by killing any
insect-eating bird or taking eggs from its nest.

Francis H. Row.ey,

President of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, the American Humane Education So-
ciety, and the Parent American Band of Mercy
45 Milk Street, Boston.

Cloth Sign used for Posting Property
EXTRACTS FROM THE TRESPASS LAws OF MASSACHUSETTS

Printed and furnished by the Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture, under the authority granted by Chapter 444,
of the Acts of 1904, as amended by Chapter 239, of the Acts
of 1914.

From Revised Laws of Massachusetts, 1902, Chapter 208.

PULLING DOWN WALLS OR FENCES

SECTION 91. Whoever wilfully and without right pulls
down or removes any portion of a stone wall or fence which is
erected or maintained for the purpose of enclosing land shall
be punished by a fine of not more than TEN DoLiars.

CUTTING TIMBER, WOOD, GRAIN, ETC.
SECTION 99.* Whoever wilfully cuts down or destroys tim-

ber or wood standing or growing on the land of another, or
carries away any kind of timber or wood cut down or lying

* As amended by Acts of 1904, Chapter 444.
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on such land, or digs up or carries away stone, ore, gravel,
clay, sand, turf or mould from such land, or roots, nuts,
berries, grapes or fruit of any kind, or any plant there being,
or cuts down or carries away sedge, grass, hay or any kind of
corn standing, growing or being on such land, or cuts or takes
therefrom any ferns, flowers or shrubs . . . without
the license of the owner thereof, shall be punished by im-
prisonment for not more than S1x MonrTus or by a fine of not
more than Five HunpRED DOoLLarRs, and if the offence is
committed on the Lord’s Day, or in disguise, or secretly in
the night time, the imprisonment shall not be less than FIVE
days nor the fine less than FrvE DoLiars.

TRESPASS IN ORCHARD, GARDEN, ETC.

SECTION 105. Whoever wilfully and maliciously enters an
orchard, nursery, garden or cranberry meadow, and takes
away, mutilates or destroys a tree, shrub or vine, or steals,
takes and carries away any fruit or flower, without the con-
sent of the owner thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not
more than FIvE HunDRED DOLLarRs or by imprisonment for
not more than Six MonruHs.

ENTERING ORCHARD, ETC., WITH INTENT

SECTION 106.* Whoever wilfully, intentionally, and with-
out right, enters upon the orchard, garden or other improved
land of another, with intent to cut, take, carry away, destroy
or injure the trees, grain, grass, hay, fruit or vegetables there
growing or being, shall be punished by imprisonment for not
more than S1x MontuHs or by a fine of not more than FIVE
HunpRED Do.rars; and if the offence is committed on the
Lord’s day, or in disguise, or secretly in the night time, the
imprisonment shall not be less than Five Days nor the fine
less than FIvE DOLLARS.

DEFACEMENT OF NOTICE AGAINST TRESPASSERS

SECTION 111. Whoever wilfully tears down, removes or
defaces any notice posted on land by the owner, lessee or

* As amended by Acts of 1902, Chapter 544, Section 33.
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custodian thereof, warning persons not to trespass thereon,

shall be punished by a fine of not more than TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS.

ARREST WITHOUT WARRANT

SECTION 121. Whoever is discovered in the act of wilfully
injuring a fruit or forest tree or of committing any kind of
malicious mischief on the Lorp’s Day, may be arrested without
a warrant by a sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, watchman, po-
lice officer or other person, and detained in jail or otherwise
until a complaint can be made against him for the offence,
and he be taken upon a warrant issued upon such com-
plaint; but such detention without warrant shall not con-
tinue more than TWENTY-Four Hours.

Poster

EXTRACTS FROM THE
FISH AND GAME LAWS

OF MASSACHUSETTS IQI4

FISH
Penalties
Back Bass closed season April 1 to June 20 inclu-
sive. Limit 8inches........................ $10
PICKEREL closed season March 1 to April 30, inclu-
sive. Limit 10 inches.... ................. $10
TROUT AND SALMON closed season August I to follow-
ing March 31, inclusive; Trout limit 6 inches,
Salmon limit 12 inches, Wild Trout—sale pro-
hibited eae heed eke Aatehun ye no asgh ee Seanad s $25
SMELT closed season March 15 to May 30, inclusive.
Hook and line only permitted................ $1

LossTERs, alive, limit 9 inches; boiled, limit 82 inches;
not to be mutilated; or taken when bearing eggs.
Shipments by common carrier must be marked. $5-100
50

Fisu frequenting fresh water may be taken by hook and
line only. Limit ten hooks. Hooks not to be
arranged as a trawl............. 0000000 cece $20-50
Fish or Spawn not to be introduced into public waters
except by permit from Fish and Game Commis-

SILOM ox hein dhe Seale manag sae eae eee eae FS eee $50
Explosions, Poisons and Pollution prohibited in fish-
ing waters..... Son ees uubig Para eter <a ashe zip, sere $500
GAME

All persons must secure from town or city clerk a license for
hunting. Fees for unnaturalized foreign-born citizens, $15;
non-resident, $10; resident, $1. License revoked for one year
upon conviction of violation.

PROHIBITED
Penalties
HuntTING on the Lord’s Day, on Posted land or
State Reservations..............000 cece $10-20
SENDING OR CARRYING GAME OUT OF THE STATE..... $10-20
FERRETING, SNARING OR POISONING.............-. $10-20
SALE of all Species of Wild Birds and Game Quad-
rupeds (except Hares and Rabbits)............ $20-50
Eccs or Nests of birds protected by law not to be
taken or disturbed... ..........-.-.0000005- £$10-50
Hunting, Importing or Liberating Wild Turkeys. ... $20
Gray or Hungarian Partridge not to be hunted or
WeledtAa Shad eRe eae ea suene tin ee ea i Aas $50
MAY BE TAKEN
Ruffed Grouse, Woodcock* and Quail open season
October 12 to November 12, inclusive. Limit:
Ruffed grouse, 3 in one day, I5 in one season;
quail and woodcock, 4 in one day, 20 in one
season. QUAIL not to be taken in Essex County
until 1919. State law rules in case of wood-
COCK es Bhan nha awa ewan eeaSeatel eae $20

* Modifications made by Federal regulations.
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PHEASANTS open season October 12 to November 12,
inclusive, in counties of Barnstable, Norfolk,
Middlesex, Essex, Worcester, Hampden, Berk-
shire. Limit 2 in one day, 6 in one season.
Killing to be reported in writing to Commission
within twenty-four hours, stating day, town,
number and sex killed ..................0--

DEER not to be chased by dogs. Open season sun-
rise of third Monday of November to sunset of
following Saturday. Limit one deer. Only
shotguns to be used. Killing to be reported in
writing to Commission within twenty-four hours.
Deer killed in this state not to be sold. Moose
protected at all times..................-.-2--.

HARES AND RABBITS open season October 12 to
February 28, inclusive. Permit to trap rabbits
injuring property may be obtained from the
COMMISSION +0600 4aeet ae es owe ddanea ness

GRAY SQUIRRELS open season October 12 to Novem-
ber 12, inclusive, unless doing damage to build-
ings or crops. Limit, 5 in one day, 15 in one
SCASOM 6 fioiais Ga cea teed dacs ae Raed naweea

Stars indicate modifications made by

*FEDERAL REGULATIONS. Penalty for violation $100,
90 days, or both.

*PLOVER, SNIPE AND RAIL open season August 15
to November 20, inclusive. Winter and Sum-
mer yellowlegs, golden plover and black breasted
plover, jacksnipe and rail only to be taken......

*Ducks, GEESE AND BRANT open season September
15 to December 31, inclusive. Black ducks.
Limit 15 in one day. Loons not to be hunted
on fresh water ............... iat GW ashe epee

*MicrRaTorY Birps. Daily close season, sunset to
sunrise.

*INSECTIVOROUS and Song Birds, Wood Duck, Swans,
Wild Pigeons, Pinnated Grouse (Heath Hen),

$50

$100

$10

$10

$20

$20
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Upland Plover, Piping and Killdeer Plover,
Herons, Bittern, Eagles, Fish Hawks, Marsh
Hawks, Small Owls, Gulls and Terns not to be
killed, captured or held in possession at any
time, or feathers used for millinery purposes.... $10-100

The above is not a complete transcript of the Game Laws.
It is intended merely as a concise statement of the provisions
most likely to be of general interest.

Report violations at once to office, Room 158, State House,
Boston (Telephone Haymarket 2700), or telephone to the
Deputy in your district.

Penalty for removing or defacing this poster, $25.

Poster
MASSACHUSETTS FISH AND GAME PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION *

Federal Regulations
for the
Protection of Migratory Birds

Regulation No. 1. Definitions. The migratory game and
insectivorous birds are classified as follows:

(a) Anatide or waterfowl—brant, wild ducks, geese and
swans.

(b) Gruide, or cranes, including little brown, sand hill, and
whooping cranes.

(c) Rallide, or rails, including coots, gallinules, sora, and
other rails.

(d) Limicole, or shore birds; including avocets, curlew, dow-
itchers, godwits, knots, phalaropes, plover, sandpipers,
snipe, willet, woodcock, yellowlegs, and a few others.

(e) Columbide, or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.

(f) Migratory insectivorous birds; bobolinks, catbirds, chick-
adees, cuckoos, flickers, nighthawks, nuthatches, orioles,
robins, swallows, tanagers, thrushes, vireos, woodpeck-
ers, wrens, and other perching birds that feed entirely
or chiefly on insects.

* This was the poster distributed to the schools, Library, etc., in Milton.
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Regulation 2. Closed Season at Night.
No game or insectivorous migratory bird may be killed be-
tween sunset and sunrise.

Regulation 3 provides a continuous closed season on migratory
insectivorous birds, except on reed birds or rice birds in
a few states.

Regulation 4. Five-year Closed Season on Certain Game Birds,
ending Sept. 1, 1918.

Viz: band-tailed pigeons, little brown, sand hill, and whoop-
ing cranes, swans, curlew, and all shore birds except the
black-breasted and golden plover, Wilson or jack snipe, wood-
cock, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs; also a closed season
for the same time on wood ducks in all the New England and
many other states.

Regulation 5. Closed Season on Certain Navigable Rivers.
The Mississippi from Minneapolis to Memphis, and the
Missouri from Bismarck, N. Dak., to Nebraska City, Neb.

Regulation 6. Zones.

Zone No. 1, the Breeding Zone, comprising states wholly or
in part north of latitute 40 degrees and the Ohio River, 25
states; Zone 2, south of the line above mentioned, 23 states,
called the wintering zone.

Regulation 7. Construction.

In Regulations 8 and 9 the time designated as a Closed
Season includes the first day named and excludes the last day
thereof.

Regulation 8. Closed Season in Zone No. I.

Waterfowl, between Dec. 16 and Sept. 1 next following.
Exception: In Massachusetts, between Jan. I and Sept. 15.
Rails: Closed season on rails, coots and gallinules, between
Dec. 1 and Sept. 1. Exception: In Massachusetts, between
Dec. 1 and Aug. 15. Woodcock: between Dec. 1 and Oct. 1.
Exception: In Massachusetts, Dec. 1 to Oct. 10. Shore Birds:
The closed season on black-breasted and golden plover, jack
snipe or Wilson snipe, and the greater and lesser yellowlegs, is
between Dec. 16 and Sept. 1 next following. Exception: In
Massachusetts, between Dec. 1 and Aug. I5.
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Regulation 9 relates to Closed Seasons in Zone No. 2.
Penalty: A fine not more than $100, or imprisonment not
more than 90 days, or Boru, in the discretion of the Court.

New MASSACHUSETTS GAME Laws

The necessary license for hunting may be secured from your
town or city clerk. Price for un-naturalized foreign-born
citizens, $15; non-resident, $10; Resident, $1.

1. The open season for GRAY SQUIRRELS is the same as for
quail, ruffed grouse (partridge), and woodcock, from Oct.
12 to Nov. 12, inclusive. Bag limit, 5 in one day, I5 in
one year. Penalty $10. May be killed when doing
damage to buildings or crops.

2. Towns may appoint Brrp WaRDENS for the care of insec-
tivorous birds.

3. The DEER SEASON, from sunrise 3rd Monday of November
to sunset the following Saturday, Nov. 17-22, extended
throughout the state. One deer only, with shot-gun.
Person killing deer must make written report to Fish and
Game Commission within 24 hours. Said deer not to be
sold. Penalty, $100.

4. Durinc DEER WEEK no rifle, pistol, or revolver to be used
in hunting game.

5. Penalty $20 for knowingly ALLOwInc Docs To CHASE
DEER.

6. FERRETING, SNARING, or POISONING wild animals prohib-
ited. Penalty, $10-$20. Permit for trapping rabbits
obtainable by farmers and fruit growers.

7. MoosE PROTECTED AT ALL TIMES. Penalty, $100.

Bac Limits: On partridges, 3 in one day, 15 in one year; on
quail and woodcock, 4 in one day, 20 in one year; on black
ducks, 15 in one day.

The state laws prohibit the killing of heath hens, herons,
doves, wild pigeons, bittern, eagles, fish and marsh hawks,
small owls, gulls, terns, Hungarian partridges, pheasants, in-
sectivorous and song birds, loons on fresh water.
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FEATHERS of these are not to be used for millinery purposes.
Penalty, $10-$100.

Hunting on the Lord’s day and sending or carrying game
out of the state, prohibited. Penalty, $10-$20.

Importing, hunting or liberating wild turkeys prohibited.
Penalty, $20.

SALE prohibited of all species of wild birds and game quad-
rupeds (except hares and rabbits), which are protected by law

in any part of the United States.
Eggs and nests of protected birds not to be taken or disturbed

Season for hares and rabbits, Oct. 15 to Feb. 28, inclusive.

SALEM D. CHARLES, President, City Hall, Boston.
Henry H. Krimsatt, Secretary, Tel. Haymarket 1535,
748 Tremont Bldg., Boston.

Violations of fish and game laws should be reported at once.

For cloth posters apply to the Secretary. Also for booklets,
which are expected about Jan. 1, 1914.

Please hang in a Conspicuous Place.
EXTRACTS FROM AN ARTICLE ON THE EXHIBITION

By Miss GERTRUDE E. FORREST
LIBRARIAN OF THE MILTON PusBLic LIBRARY

When asked for the use of the Art Room for a bird exhibit
by the Brush Hill Bird Club, the request was granted gladly,
but neither the Librarian nor the Trustees had much idea
of the scope of the exhibit or of its possibilities. If we gave
it any thought at all, we presumed it would be a simple exhibit,
with an attendance during the four weeks of 150 or 200.
The exhibit opened January 17, and the interest was immedi-
ate. The attendance has varied from 40 to 94, the largest
attendance in any one day. The total attendance January
17—March 15 was 1,466.

The article by Mr. Winthrop Packard, which appeared in
the Transcript for January 24, described the exhibit in the
most delightful way and was the beginning of wide-spread
interest outside of Milton.

One morning a club of twelve ladies came from Lynn.
Another morning an elderly man came into the Library breath-
less and said, ‘‘ Well, I’ve travelled thousands of miles to get to
this Library; I never knew such an out-of-the-way place!”
And then, having got his breath and his temper simultaneously,
he modified his statement by saying that he had come from
Belmont by trolley. When he entered the Art room his
face wreathed in smiles and he felt repaid for all the trouble
of getting here. He said modestly, ‘I know something
about birds myself,’”’ but he did not give his name.

At other times people have come from Boston, Quincy,
Canton and other outlying towns. One Saturday morning
when it was storming hard a mother and son were eagerly
waiting for Dr. Kennedy’s talk.* They said they had come
from West Medford.

*The General Manager by request gave three informal talks each
week—Wednesdays at 4 p. m., Saturdays for children at 10 a. m., Sundays
at 3 p. m.

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There are frequent telephone calls for information as to the
best and quickest way of reaching the Library, as to the
nature and scope of the exhibit, etc. It has been surprising
to note the number of men who are keenly interested in
birds and who take measurements of the feeding cars and
other apparatus.

Clubs from various towns are asking how they can get the
exhibit, and the Children’s Museum has asked for the col-
lection as a permanent exhibit. Miss Griffin, in charge of
the Museum, telephoned that they had never dreamed of
anything so complete and that she and her directors thought
it a beautiful thing to do.

On Wednesday, the 11th, Mr. Baker. president of the
Brookline Bird Club, and Mr. Lacy, Town Forester of Brook-
line, telephoned to know at what time the Manager would be
in. They said they wished to consult him and to get sug-
gestions for a similar exhibit which they were planning for
Brookline.

The children have been keenly interested from the first.
A boy of eight brought three other boys and acting as guide
told his young friends the things he had heard about the
exhibition. His remarks on feeding and care of birds showed
a youthful appreciation of what the Club is trying to do.

The whole Glover School, in three relays, has visited the
exhibit, and the children from all the schools have been
greatly interested in coloring the bird outlines issued by the
Audubon Society. One teacher from the Vose School re-
ported that coloring birds was so much more attractive
than lessons that she had been obliged to take the outlines
away during school hours in order to accomplish the regular
school work. She also said that the free-hand drawings which
the children had made were quite remarkable. She has
asked the Library to supply her with a complete set of the
outlines so that she can hectograph them for use in the spring.

Nore. This request has been met by the Club,
which stands ready to supply these outlines to such
of the teachers of the Town of Milton as request them.
OUR TALKED-OF EXHIBIT

There have been many excellent and unique exhibitions of
various kinds, previous to this time, at the Milton Public
Library, few, though, so quite out-of-the-ordinary, and well
worth seeing as the exhibit now being held under the auspices
of the Brush Hill Bird Club, and which, it is announced, will
remain open until March 15.

This exhibition is the work of bird-lovers, and is primarily
for those who delve in bird-lore. The uninitiate, however,
the ‘‘rank-outsider,’’ who prides himself on being able to
distinguish the difference between a robin and a crow, will
find, though, plenty to hold his interest—and to learn.

In order to help just such amateur ornithologists (also all
others) who are anxious to know a little bit about our common
birds and know how to attract, and keep them about our
homes, Dr. Harris Kennedy of the Brush Hill Bird Club
will be at the Library from 10 to 11 on Saturday mornings, and
from 4 to 5 on Wednesday afternoons. He will also be there
on Sunday afternoons at 3 o’clock, ready to explain any part
of the exhibition.

(From The Milton Record, February 7, 1914.)

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THE CHILDREN’S PART IN THE BRUSH HILL
BIRD CLUB EXHIBIT

There has already been one very noteworthy result in con-
nection with the exhibit. That is the Milton school children’s
great interest in coloring the outline pictures of birds which
have been distributed from the children’s room since the
exhibit began. These outlines come with the Audubon
leaflets. Each leaflet contains a description of a bird and
its habits, written by a well-known authority, a colored plate
showing the bird in its natural surroundings, and an outline
of this plate printed on rough drawing paper. The outline
picture is to be colored by the child after the accompanying
plate.

The leaflets have been given out one at a time as each child
has asked for it. When he has finished one bird, and the
robin has always been given first, he brings back his drawing,
and chooses another bird. All of the drawings, good and bad,
have been placed on the long white screen in the exhibition
room. There are now about one hundred and forty-six in all,
and they form a very interesting part of the exhibit. Many
children come in every day and spend a long time in fond
contemplation of their own and their friends’ contributions.
Some drawings are done in water-colors with great painstaking,
and some with just a few strokes in crayon; some by high
school pupils, and some by children so young that they can
hardly write their names at the bottom of the plate.

But in every case it is certain that the child knows the bird
he has drawn better than before; and even though he may
make the robin’s breast a delicate pink, he will hereafter feel
that he has a definite acquaintance with robins, and will be
eager to recognize them when they come in the spring.

After the exhibit is over, an honor list will be made and
published of the names of the children whose drawings show
real merit, of course taking into account the differences in
age. And the drawings are to be made into a permanent

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book for the Library, to show what the Milton children did
for the Brush Hill Bird Club Exhibit.

The above article appeared in the local paper Feb-
ruary 28, 1914, prepared by Miss King of the Milton
Public Library staff.

Before the close of the exhibit seven hundred and
fifty outlines were received.
AWARDS FOR BIRD PICTURES

WorK oF MILTON CHILDREN JUDGED By Cyrus E. DALLin,
THE SCULPTOR, AND FRANK T. MERRILL, THE ARTIST,
Wao Announce Honor List.

Last winter, as a side issue of the Brush Hill Bird Club
Exhibition, the Audubon outline pictures of birds were dis-
tributed to any Milton children who wished them. So much
interest was taken that 750 pictures were colored and re-
turned. These pictures have been on exhibition at the
Library during July and August; later, those receiving hon-
orable mention will be suitably bound and placed in the
Children’s Room.

Last week the children’s work was judged by Cyrus E.
Dallin, the sculptor of Boston’s inspiring Indian masterpiece,
“The Appeal to the Great Spirit,’ and Frank T. Merrill,
the well-known artist. Mr. Dallin and Mr. Merrill spent a
whole evening judging the pictures, and awarded the honors
on a basis of not only the care taken by the child, but the
spirit and the color sense which the work showed. The
awards had to be made in various groups, according to age,
and also according to grades, as some children had signed
their age, others their grade in school.

(From The Milton Record, August 29, 1914.)

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THE CO-OPERATION OF THE MANUAL TRAIN-
ING DEPARTMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS

As soon as the Exhibition started, the Director of
the Manual Training Department of the Milton Public
Schools, Mr. Clarence M. Hunt, met the General Man-
ager of the Club at the Exhibition and carefully ex-
amined some of the feeding stations and bird nesting
boxes that were there shown. He offered heartily to
co-operate with the Club in its campaign for the birds.
We have already spoken of the fact that the High
School pupils built a feeding station for the Cunning-
ham Park Bird Sanctuary, and would here call atten-
tion to the encouragement that the children received
from the teachers of the Manual Training courses to
build bird houses and feeding stations not only in the
school but in their homes. Several of these articles
were finished in time to be included in our Exhibition
during the last few weeks that it was open. In many
cases the children made their boxes at home and brought
them to school to put on the finishing touches.

After the talk of Mr. Edward Howe Forbush to the
school children, many boys made boxes and became so
enthusiastic that they even planned which birds should
live in their boxes. Some presented bird boxes to the
school teachers. The Manual Training Department
stands ready to fill orders from our townspeople for
either nesting boxes or feeding stations. The co-oper-
ation of the Manual Training courses with the work
of the Club is an important item for the young people
of the town.
EXTENSION OF THE WORK

I. During the two months that the Brush Hill Bird
Club exhibit was open, we had requests for the entire
exhibition from the following: Canton Bird Club,
Quincy Woman’s Club, Dorchester Woman’s Club,
Brookline Bird Club, the Children’s Museum, Jamaica
Plain, and the Middlesex Sportsman’s Club of Arlington.
It was with regret that we were obliged to refuse these
requests. The fact was that our chief feature, ‘‘ Nature’s
Method of Feeding the Birds’’ was so dried up in eight
weeks that it was falling to pieces and could not be
moved. Our refusal to send our exhibition about was
coupled with an offer to aid others in every way possible,
which we did by loaning objects and giving advice
from our own experiences.

II. The extension of the work for bird conservation
following our exhibit was shown by exhibitions in
Canton, Brookline, Nahant, the Children’s Museum,
and a special circular issued by the Newton Highlands
Improvement Association, all dealing with Bird Con-
servation.

III. On February 22, 1914, Mr. Winthrop Packard,
Secretary of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, gave
a lecture under the auspices of the Conservation Com-
mittee of the Milton Woman’s Club. This was an
open meeting to which parents of the school children
were invited and co-operated in an interesting way with
the work of the Bird Club. It was a great success.

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BIRD ESSAY—PRIZE

Through the enthusiasm awakened in the community
by the work of the Brush Hill Bird Club, a special
prize of $10 gold was offered to any member of the
Junior Department of the Milton Woman’s Club for
the best essay on any one of the following topics:

1. The birds of the Township of Milton.

2. The best methods of attracting and protecting the
birds of Milton.

3. The economic value of the presence of birds to
the Town of Milton.

4. The best series of photographic studies of birds of

Milton taken by any member of the Junior Woman’s
Club.

The essay was to be presented prior to March I, 1914.

In conformity with this offer a prize was awarded
to Miss Anna Moran, a pupil in the High School. This
essay contained descriptions of twenty common birds,
illustrated by an excellent water-color drawing of each
of the birds mentioned in the essay. The neatness
and thoroughness of the article led to the request that
it be donated to the Milton Public Library. The same
individual who offered the prize has had the article
suitably bound and placed in the Library. The prize
offer has been renewed for the coming year; as long as
interest is manifested we hope it will be an annual affair.

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NEWTON HIGHLANDS IMPROVEMENT
ASSOCIATION

AN IMMINENT DANGER TO NEwToN. The Leopard Moth
is here. This is the moth which has done so much damage
on Boston Common, in the Harvard College Yard, etc.
The caterpillar of the moth cannot be poisoned by spraying,
as he lives inside the branches of the trees. He bores tunnels
through the wood. Hand work against him is slow and
expensive; the only other way to defeat him is to use the
native birds to help us. It has been observed that where
our native birds are common the Leopard Moth is kept under
control. Woodpeckers drill holes in the wood to get at him,
and other birds eat him when he is crawling on the surface
to find a suitable place to begin boring.

Let us not allow the trees of Newton to become wrecks
such as may readily be seen in parts of Cambridge and Boston.
Let us study what is being done to bring back the birds in
Dover, Brookline, and other places. Go to the Newton High-
lands Library and you will find there interesting information
on this subject.

Get the children interested in the birds also.

The bird-nesting season lasts through May and June, and
sometimes into July. Many more birds will raise their
broods successfully if cats are shut up during this time.
A cat can easily be made harmless by using a box and a
little poultry netting as a house and roofed-over yard. IF
Any FAMILY IS THINKING OF GETTING A PET THE IMPROVE-
MENT ASSOCIATION SUGGESTS A DOG, OR SOME OTHER ANIMAL
THAT Dors NoT ATTACK Birps. Best of all, tame and
make pets of the birds themselves.

In the fight to protect our Garden City against the Leopard
Moth, do not forget to attract desirable birds by bird houses,
which should be put up in October or February. The Library
has information about the best kinds. Houses put up next
October will provide sleeping places for winter birds, and
growing weather-beaten, will be still more attractive to nesting
birds next spring.

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For immediate use place a simple bird bath on your grounds
this summer. A shallow pan slightly tipped will provide the
varying depth of water that pleases the birds best. Since
birds with wet feathers cannot fly fast the bath should be
placed on a post, or far from bushes, to avoid danger from
lurking cats.

The English sparrow eats comparatively few insects, and
drives off more useful and beautiful native birds. Do not
allow this foreigner to nest on your premises.

Any person who knows of a place where a street tree, a
tree-guard, or any road mending is needed will please write
to the Chairman of the Committee on Roads and Parks,
67 Chester St., Newton Highlands.

THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

Note. As this notice may not reach everyone, please
show it to your friends.
This grew out of the Bird Show in the Milton Library.

E. R. CoGSwELL, JR.
THE ECONOMIC ASPECT—BIRDS, FORESTRY
AND AGRICULTURE

In the past, much emphasis has been laid on the senti-
mental reasons why we should protect and foster bird
life, but we are getting nearer to a sane, economic
basis of the value of birds to both forestry and agri-
culture.

Many birds are a great aid to the farmer in eating
insects. Anyone who has seen the robins and bronze
grackles eat cutworms on a newly-plowed field can
appreciate what labor savers these birds are for the
agriculturist. The destruction of the leopard moths
and other borers in trees by various woodpeckers is
an important topic which well deserves careful study.
The Town of Brookline has already undertaken a cam-
paign to increase the number of woodpeckers within
her borders in order to supplement the work of the
Town Forestry Department and save her trees from
destruction by borers.

In ‘‘Useful Birds and Their Protection,” by Mr.
Edward Howe Forbush, much authentic information
on this topic can be obtained.* This book has been
pronounced the best work of its kind and has already
been translated into foreign languages. It has been
circulated all over the United States. Mr. Ford, the
automobile manufacturer, is in the habit of ordering
fifty copies of this book at a time and distributing them
among his friends and workmen on his bird preserve.

We feel that an interesting exhibition could be held
called ‘‘The Birds and Insects.”” Who will carry for-
ward our suggestion?t Let us hear from you.

*The Massachusetts State Forester (6 Beacon St., Boston), issues
private mailing cards—the Gypsy Moth, the Browntail Moth, the Calo-
soma Beetles—with illustrations and descriptions. These cards show
these pests in different stages, and also the parasitic beetle which is the
enemy of the gypsy moth. These cards were included in the exhibition.

{ Since this report was started the Brookline Bird Club has carried

out this suggestion in a very interesting manner.
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EVERYONE CAN DO SOMETHING FOR THE BIRDS

1. Feed the birds. The most important and success-
ful method of attracting birds about one’s house in
winter is by feeding. Well-fed birds rarely, if ever, die
from the cold, but many birds starve during periods of
deep snow. Use suet for the insect-eating birds, and
for the grain-eating birds, Japanese millet, hemp seed,
chaff from the hayloft, and bread crumbs.

2. Supply nesting boxes. The bluebird, tree swallow,
nuthatch, flicker, chickadee, screech owl, downy and
hairy woodpecker, greatcrested flycatcher, martin, and
English sparrow are all known to occupy nesting boxes.
If English sparrows trouble, they may be shot; or enough
boxes put out to care for the sparrows and other birds
as well. The English sparrow is a pest, but in many
cases where sufficient boxes have been put out the
sparrows and other birds have occupied them without
great conflicts.

3. Provide clean water. In hot weather, bathing and
drinking places are most welcome. The bath should
have a gradual slope and in its deepest part should be
not more than three or fourinches. It should be placed
away from shrubs or trees on account of cats, that the
birds, while bathing, may not be caught.

4. If you live in a flat in the city and have no chance
to attract the birds, even with a window shelf, you may
further the cause of bird protection by joining either
the Massachusetts Audubon Society, 234 Berkeley St.,
Boston, or the National Association of Audubon Societies,
1974 Broadway, New York, which use such funds as they
obtain to further bird protection both by the enactment
of State and National laws and a general educational
campaign for bird protection. Surely you can find
some way to help.

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TREASURER’S REPORT OF THE BRUSH HILL
BIRD CLUB

REPORT OF RECEIPTS AND
BrusH Hitt Birp CLUB
SEPTEMBER IST, IQI4.

Received as follows:

1 Life membership fee
44 Membership fees at
50c apiece from the
start of the club until
the fees were changed .
Presents to Club
Membership fees for year

ending Sept. I, 1914..

57 Single memberships
at $1.00 apiece .

14 Family memberships
at $5.00 apiece. .

4 Associate memberships
at $1.00 apiece

1 Single membership paid
in advance for 1914-15

Paid as follows:

Milton Bradley Co. for
54 Bird Charts for
schools and Milton
Public Library and
branch Reading Rooms

Thomas Green & Co.,
printing ‘billheads

DISBURSEMENTS OF THE
FROM ITS FORMATION TO

$25.00

Mmivne Oe 22.00

17.45
$57 .00
70.00
4.00
1.00

132.00

$196.45
eget Boe! $64.80
sales 2.95
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Harris Kennedy, General
Manager, for expenses
authorized by Club
and paid by him:

17 copies Trafton’s book
at $1.25, less10% ...

Expenses of lecture

“Cat” pamphlet, 700
copies

300 letters

Postage (279 names @
8c)

Sept. Ist, 1914—Balance
in bank...

 

$19.13
10.00
13.00
3-51
22.33 $67.96
$135.51
SReete Rio gad 60.94
Loser piven taster $196.45

ROBERT SALTONSTALL,
Treasurer.
CONSTITUTION OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD
CLUB

ARTICLE I. NAME

This Club shall be known as the Brush Hill Bird
Club.
ARTICLE II. Purpose

The purpose of this Club shall be to encourage pro-
tection of and interest in bird life in our community.

ARTICLE III. MEMBERSHIP

SEcTION I. The membership in this Club shall con-
sist of Active Membership, Active Family Membership,
Associate Membership, Life Membership, Patrons and
Benefactors.

SECTION 2. Any resident of the Brush Hill-Blue Hill
district of Milton may become an Active Member on
payment of the prescribed dues.

SECTION 3. Any family residing in the Brush Hill-
Blue Hill district of Milton may obtain a Family Mem-
bership on payment of the prescribed dues.

SEcTION 4. Any non-resident in sympathy with the
purpose of this Club may become an Associate Member
on payment of the prescribed dues.

SECTION 5. Any person may become a Life Member
on payment of the prescribed fee.

SEcTION 6. Any person may become a Patron on
payment of the prescribed fee.

SECTION 7. Any person may become a Benefactor on
payment of the prescribed fee.

SECTION 8. The dues for Active Members shall be
$1, payable annually.

SECTION 9. The dues for Active Family Membership
shall be $5, payable annually.

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SECTION 10. The dues for Associate Membership shall
be $1, payable annually. .

SECTION 11. The fee for Life Membership shall be $25.

SECTION 12. The fee for a Patron shall be $100.

SECTION 13. The fee for a Benefactor shall be $1000.

SECTION 14. The voting power shall be limited to
active members.

ARTICLE IV. MEETINGS OF THE CLUB

Meetings shall be held at the discretion of the Exec-
utive Committee. The first meeting after September 1
shall be the business meeting at which the election of
officers for the ensuing year shall be held.

ARTICLE V. GOVERNMENT

The officers of the Club shall consist of a President,
Vice-President, Secretary, Treasurer and General Man-
ager. The officers of the Club shall constitute the
Executive Committee, which Committee shall pass upon
all business that is to be brought before the Club for
action.
MEMBERS OF THE BRUSH HILL BIRD CLUB

LirE MEMBERSHIP

Mrs. Augustus Hemenway

ASSOCIATE MEMBERSHIP

Cabot, Mrs. Arthur T. Hamlin, Mrs. B. Nason
Forbes, Mrs. Alexander Hamlin, B. Nason
Forbes, Dr. Alexander Ingell, Miss M. A.
Forbes, Mrs. Ralph E. Luther, Mrs. George E.
Forbes, Ralph E. Shepard, Mrs. Willis S.
Forbes, Mrs. Waldo Whitwell, Miss Natalie S.

Forbes, Waldo

ACTIVE FAMILY MEMBERSHIP

Burr, Mrs. I. Tucker Kennedy, Dr. Harris
Burr, I. Tucker Mason, Mrs. Charles E.
Davis, Mrs. Livingston Mason, Charles E.
Davis, Livingston Milliken, Mrs. Frederic L.
Draper, Mrs. J. Sumner Milliken, Frederic L.
Draper, J. Sumner Perkins, Mrs. John F.
Dupee, Mrs. William A. Perkins, John F.
Dupee, William A. Pier, Mrs. Arthur S.
Goldthwait, Mrs. Joel E. Pier, Arthur S.
Goldthwait, Dr. Joel E. Saltonstall, Mrs. Robert
Guild, Mrs. Charles E. Saltonstall, Robert
Guild, Charles E. Slater, Mrs. Horatio N.
Kennedy, Dr. George G. Weld, Mrs. C. Minot
Kennedy, Mrs. Harris Weld, C. Minot

ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP
Bigelow, Mrs. Henry F. Chase, Mrs. P. Coggeshall
Bigelow, Henry F. Chase, P. Coggeshall
Brigham, Mrs. Clifford Cunningham, Mrs. Henry W.
Brooks, Miss Dolly Cunningham, Henry W.
Brooks, Miss Fanny Denny, Mrs. Clarence B.
Chase, Miss Mary Denny, Clarence B.

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Eustis, Mrs. Frederick A.
Eustis, Frederick A.
Foster, Mrs. Alfred D.
Foster, Alfred D.
Hallowell, Mrs. N. Penrose
Hallowell, N. Penrose
Hallowell, Mrs. Robert H.
Hallowell, Robert H.
Hollingsworth, Mrs. Sumner
Hubbard, Mrs. Charles
Hubbard, Charles
Humphrey, Mrs. Henry B.
Humphrey, Henry B.
Johnson, Mrs. Reginald M.
Johnson, Reginald M.
Kennedy, Miss Mildred
Lamb, Mrs. Horatio A.
Lamb, Horatio A.

McAdie, Mrs. Alexander
McAdie, Alexander

Minot, Mrs. Charles S.
Minot, Dr. Charles S.
Peabody, Mrs. W. Rodman
Peabody, W. Rodman
Post, Mrs. John R.

Post, John R.

Purdon, Miss M.
Rackemann, Mrs. Charles S.
Rackemann, Charles S.
Rackemann, Mrs. Felix
Rackemann, Felix
Raymond, Mrs. Robert L.
Raymond, Robert L.
Reynolds, Mrs. Edward
Reynolds, Dr. Edward
Reynolds, Mrs. Philip M.
Reynolds, Philip M.

Rice, Mrs. Arthur W.
Rice, Arthur W.
Richardson, Mrs. John
Richardson, John
Rosentwist, Mrs. G. A. B.
Rosentwist, G. A. B.
Rotch, Mrs. A. Lawrence
Rust, Mrs. Paul D.

Rust, Paul D.

Saltonstall, Mrs. Philip L.
Saltonstall, Philip L.
Stone, Miss Elizabeth
Storrow, Mrs. Edward C.
Storrow, Edward C.
Tedcastle, Mrs. Arthur W.
Tedcastle, Arthur W.
Tilden, Mrs. Charles L.
Van Brunt, Mrs. Charles
Wainwright, Arthur
Wheeler, Miss F. Margrette
White, Frank S.

White, Mrs. Harry K.
White, Harry K.
Whitney, Mrs. Ellerton P.
Whitney, Ellerton P.
Whitney, Mrs. Joseph C.
Whittier, Mrs. Albert R.
Whittier, Albert R.
Whittier, Mrs. Charles W.
Whittier, Charles W.
Wolcott, Mrs. Roger
Wolcott, Roger

Wolcott, Mrs. Samuel H.
Wolcott, Samuel H.
Wolcott, William Prescott
Zerrahn, Mrs. Franz E.
Zerrahn, Franz E.
EXPLANATION OF PLATES
EXPLANATION OF PLATE I

Please note the berry-bearing shrubs and the method of mounting same. The white tags
bear the scientific and common name and locality of the specimen. Hanging from the end of
the rack is a southern gourd with a nest within, which was sent to the exhibition from Mary-
land. The far wall shows the Brown pictures of birds. The foreground shows a bird bath ,,
and jar containing sweepings from the barn hayloft, which litter makes excellent winter ~
feeding for many birds. In the middle foreground the post with wire shows the method of
preventing cats from climbing to bird nesting sites. On the table are nesting boxes and a long
shelf for eave swallows; at the end of the room on a pole is a bird house made by a boy of
eleven. The far end of the room shows some of the newspaper articles and leaflets.

This picture has already appeared in Bird-Lore, March-April, 1914.
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Mitton Pustic Liprary, JANUARY 17 TO MARCH I5, I9I14

PLATE I
EXPLANATION OF PLATE II

The large charts are the Audubon charts under which are eleven outlined drawings filled in
by the school children as samples of their work. The far case contains the collection of jars
containing the grains, and also eight pictures of birds filled in by children about five years old g
in the Page Memorial Kindergarten, Wellesley, Mass. The long log on the floor is a food
stick; the blotches upon it are the suet pudding which has overrun the auger holes. Five
Maeterlinck bluebird nesting jars are shown. The bird baths are in the foreground. One is
made with a series of 3-inch steps and 4-inch platforms to give different depths of water.
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On the table from right to left are the martin house, the suet pudding, two nesting boxes
made by the pupils of the Manual Training Courses at the High School, two feeding stations, |
a four-compartment circular bluebird house, a wire sparrow trap and “lethal chamber.’”’ On ~*
the wires above hang a feeding car, and a four-compartment wren house.

In the wall cases are shown bird plates from Chapman’s ‘‘ Teacher’s Manual of Bird Life,”

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VIEW OF THE BrusH HiLi_ Birp CLUB EXHIBITION PLATE III
Mitton Pustic LIBRARY, JANUARY 17 TO MARCH 15, I914
EXPLANATION OF PLATE IV

In the background at the right are the posters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and
the Fish and Game Protective Association, as well as pamphlets of the Massachusetts Agri-
cultural Department. This group of nesting boxes and feeding stations is home-made. The
place screened with wire netting is for suet and above is an automatic hopper for seeds and _
grains. In the middle of the picture one of the Von Berlepsch nesting boxes is shown in ~
section with its acorn shape interior. In the foreground is a Packard nesting box made of
paroid roofing paper. The southern gourd shows the nesting material within. The flower pot
nesting jar is set into the saucer, thus making a tight joint to keep the weather out.

The suet pudding, bird bath, and Maeterlinck bluebird nesting jars are shown to good
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Mitton Pustic LIBRARY, JANUARY 17 TO MARCH 15, I9I4

 
DIRECTIONS FOR COLORING

BLuE JAy—Blue above. Black band around the
neck, joining black feathers on the back. Under parts
dusky white. Wing coverts and tail bright blue, striped
transversely with black. Tail much rounded. Many
feathers edged and tipped with white. Head finely
crested; bill, tongue and legs black.

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Copyright 1911 by Milton Bradley Co.

PLATE V

Sample of Birds for School and Home. Designed by Maud Adelaide Wright
Boston—New York—Philadelphia—Atlanta—San Francisco
FRIENDLY CO-OPERATION

Boston, February 5th, 1914.
Tue BrusH HILyt Birp CLus,
Mitton, Mass.

Enclosed please find a detail drawing of a bird food box
that we have found quite successful at our home in Weston.
The box swings on the rod as a pivot and always faces the
wind and so saves the food from being blown away and
wasted; it also keeps it dry.

We have tried many ways of feeding the birds but find that
this box is the most practical.

We have made successful bird houses out of lengths of
round wooden rain-water conductors which may be obtained
in various sizes from any lumber dealer. All that is necessary
to do is to nail on a thin top and bottom and bore a hole of
proper size for the entrance.

I have made them about a foot long.

If any of your members are interested to have them I will
send them prints of this food box.

Very truly yours,
(Signed) A. S. JENNEY,
Weston, Mass.

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APPENDIX
APPENDIX A

Issued June 23, 1913.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY—CIRCULAR NO. 92
HENRY W. HENSHAW, Chief of Bureau

PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY
BIRDS

Wasuincton, D. C., June 17, 1913.

Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913,
authorizing and directing the Department of Agriculture to
adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing closed sea-
sons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), regulations, copy of
which is hereto annexed, have been prepared, are hereby made
public, and are hereby proposed for adoption, after allowing a
period of three months in which the same may be examined
and considered. The regulations, as finally adopted, will
become effective on or after October I, 1913, whenever
approved by the President.

Public hearings on the proposed regulations will be held by
the Bureau of Biological Survey of this department whenever
deemed necessary. Inquiries in reference thereto should be
addressed to the Secretary of Agriculture.

B. T. GaLLoway,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.

 

REGULATIONS FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY Brirps

Pursuant to the provisions of the act of March 4, 1913,
authorizing and directing the Department of Agriculture to
adopt suitable regulations prescribing and fixing closed sea-
sons for migratory birds (37 Stat., 847), having due regard to
zones of temperature, breeding habits, and times and lines of
migratory flight, the Department of Agriculture has adopted
the following regulations:

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REGULATION I. DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be
considered migratory game birds:

(a) Anatide or waterfowl, including brant, wild ducks,
geese, and swans.

(b) Gruide or cranes, including little brown, sandhill, and
whooping cranes.

(c) Rallide or rails, including coots, gallinules, and sora
and other rails.

(d) Limicole or shore birds, including avocets, curlew,
dowitchers, godwits, knots, oyster catchers, phalaropes,
plover, sandpipers, snipe, stilts, surf birds, turnstones, willet,
woodcock, and yellow-legs.

(e) Columbidz or pigeons, including doves and wild pigeons.

For the purposes of these regulations the following shall be
considered migratory insectivorous birds:

(f) Bobolinks, catbirds, chickadees, cuckoos, flycatchers,
grosbeaks, humming birds, kinglets, martins, meadow larks,
night hawks or bull bats, nuthatches, orioles, robins, shrikes,
swallows, swifts, tanagers, titmice, thrushes, vireos, warblers,
waxwings, whippoorwills, woodpeckers, and wrens, and all
other perching birds which feed entirely or chiefly on insects.

REGULATION 2. CLOSED SEASONS AT NIGHT

A daily closed season on all migratory game and insectivo-
rous birds shall extend from sunset to sunrise.

REGULATION 3. CLOSED SEASON ON INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS

A closed season on migratory insectivorous birds shall
continue to December 31, 1913, and each year thereafter shall
begin January 1 and continue to December 31, both dates
inclusive, provided that nothing in this regulation shall be
construed to prevent the issue of premits for collecting such
birds for scientific purposes in accordance with the laws and
regulations in force in the respective States and Territories
and the District of Columbia; and provided further that the
closed season on reedbirds or ricebirds in Delaware, Mary-
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land, the District of Columbia, Virginia, and South Carolina
shall begin November 1 and end August 31 next following,
both dates inclusive.

REGULATION 4. FIVE-YEAR CLOSED SEASONS ON CERTAIN
GAME BIRDS

A closed season shall continue until September 1, 1918, on
the following migratory game birds: Band-tailed pigeons,
little brown, sandhill, and whooping cranes, swans, curlew,
and all shore birds except the black-breasted and golden plover,
Wilson or jack snipe, woodcock, and the greater and lesser
yellow-legs.

A closed season shall also continue until September 1, 1918,
on wood ducks in Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, West Virginia, and
Wisconsin; on rails in California and Vermont; and on wood-
cock in Illinois and Missouri.

REGULATION 5. CLOSED SEASON ON CERTAIN NAVIGABLE
RIVERS

A closed season shall continue between January 1 and
October 31, both dates inclusive, of each year, on all migratory
birds passing over or at rest on any of the waters of the main
streams of the following navigable rivers, to wit: The Miss-
issippi River between New Orleans, La., and Minneapolis,
Minn.; the Ohio River between its mouth and Pittsburgh,
Pa.; and the Missouri River between its mouth and Bismarck,
N. Dak.; and on the killing or capture of any of such birds on
or over the shores of any of said rivers, or at any point within
the limits aforesaid, from any boat, raft, or other device,
floating or otherwise, in or on any such waters.

REGULATION 6. ZONES

The following zones for the protection of migratory game
and insectivorous birds are hereby established:

Zone No. 1, the breeding zone, comprising States lying
wholly or in part north of latitude 40° and the Ohio River and
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including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts,
Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Penn-
sylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska,
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, and Washing-
ton—25 States.

Zone No. 2, the wintering zone, comprising States lying
wholly or in part south of latitude 40° and the Ohio River and
including Delaware, Maryland, the District of Columbia,
West Virginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Ken-
tucky, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma,
Kansas, New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada and
Utah—23 States and the District of Columbia.

REGULATION 7. CONSTRUCTION

For the purposes of regulations 8 and 9, each period of time
therein prescribed as a closed season shall be construed to
include the first day and to exclude the last day thereof.

REGULATION 8. CLOSED SEASONS IN ZONE NO. I

Closed seasons in zone No. 1 shall be as follows:

Waterfowl—The closed season on waterfowl shall be be-
tween December 16 and September I next following, except
as follows:

Exceptions: In Massachusetts the closed season shall be between
January 1 and September 15.

In Minnesota and North Dakota the closed season shall be between
December 16 and September 7.

In South Dakota the closed season shall be between December 16
and September 10.

In New York, other than on Long Island, and in Oregon the closed
season shall be between December 16 and September 16.

In New Hampshire, Long Island, New Jersey, and Washington the
closed season shall be between January 16 and October 1.

Rails.—The closed season on rails, coots, and gallinules shall
be between December 1 and September 1 next following,
except as follows:
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Exceptions: In Massachusetts and Rhode Island the closed season
shall be between December 1 and August 1.

In New York and on Long Island the closed season shall be between
December 1 and September 16; and

On rails in California and Vermont the closed season shall be until
September 1, 1918.

Woodcock.—The closed season on woodcock shall be be-
tween December 1 and October 1 next following, except as
follows:

Exceptions: In Maine and Vermont the closed season shall be
between December 1 and September 15.

In Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey the closed season
shall be between December 1 and October Io.

In Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, and on Long Island the closed sea-
son shall be between December 1 and October 15; and

In Illinois and Missouri the closed season shall be until September 1,
1918.

Shore birds—The closed season on black-breasted and
golden plover, jacksnipe or Wilson snipe, and greater or lesser
yellowlegs shall be between December 16 and September I
next following, except as follows:

Exceptions: In Maine, Massachusetts, and on Long Island the
closed season shall be between December 16 and August 1.

In Minnesota and North Dakota the closed season shall be between
December 16 and September 7.

In South Dakota the closed season shall be between December 16
and September Io.

In New York, other than Long Island, and in Oregon the closed
season shall be between December 16 and September 16; and

In New Hampshire and Washington the closed season shall be
between December 16 and October 1.

REGULATION 9. CLOSED SEASONS IN ZONE NO. 2

Closed seasons in zone No. 2 shall be as follows:

Waterfowl—The closed season on waterfowl shall be be-
tween January 16 and October 1 next following, except as
follows:

Exceptions: In Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arizona the
closed season shall be between December 16 and September 1; and

In Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina the
closed season shall be between February 1 and November 1,
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Rails—The closed season on rails, coots, and gallinules
shall be between December 1 and September 1 next following,
except as follows:

Exceptions: In Tennessee and Louisiana the closed season shall be
between December 1 and October 1; and

In Arizona the closed season shall be between December 1 and
October 15.

Woodcock.—The closed season on woodcock shall be between
January 1 and November 1, except as follows:

Exceptions: In Louisiana the closed season shall be between January
1 and November 15; and

In Georgia the closed season shall be between January 1 and De-
cember I.

Shore birds—The closed season on black-breasted and
golden plover, jacksnipe or Wilson snipe, and greater and
lesser yellowlegs shall be between December 16 and September
1, next following, except as follows:

Exceptions: In Alabama the closed season shall be between Decem-
ber 16 and November 1.

In Louisiana and Tennessee the closed season shall be between
December 16 and October 1.

In Arizona the closed season shall be between December 16 and
October 15.

In Utah, on snipe the closed season shall be between December 16
and October 1, and on plover and yellowlegs shall be until September
I, 1918.

REGULATION 10. HEARINGS

Persons recommending changes in the regulations or desiring
to submit evidence in person or by attorney as to the necessity
for such changes should make application to the Secretary of
Agriculture. Whenever possible hearings will be arranged at
central points, and due notice thereof given by publication or
otherwise as may be deemed appropriate. Persons recom-
mending changes should be prepared to show the necessity for
such action and to submit evidence other than that based on
reasons of personal convenience or a desire to kill game during
a longer open season.
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FEDERAL LAw FOR THE PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS
[37 Stat., 847.]

{Extract from an act making appropriations for the Department of Agriculture for the
fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.]

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled, All wild geese,
wild swans, brant, wild ducks, snipe, plover, woodcock, rail,
wild pigeons, and all other migratory game and insectivorous
birds which in their northern and southern migrations pass
through or do not remain permanently the entire year within
the borders of any State or Territory, shall hereafter be deemed
to be within the custody and protection of the Government of
the United States, and shall not be destroyed or taken contrary
to regulations hereinafter provided therefor.

The Department of Agriculture is hereby authorized and
directed to adopt suitable regulations to give effect to the
previous paragraph by prescribing and fixing closed seasons,
having due regard to the zones of temperature, breeding
habits, and times and line of migratory flight, thereby enabling
the department to select and designate suitable districts for
different portions of the country, and it shall be unlawful to
shoot or by any device kill or seize and capture migratory birds
within the protection of this law during said closed seasons,
and any person who shall violate any of the provisions or regu-
lations of this law for the protection of migratory birds shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be fined not more than
$100 or imprisoned not more than ninety days, or both, in the
discretion of the court.

The Department of Agriculture, after the preparation of
said regulations, shall cause the same to be made public, and
shall allow a period of three months in which said regulations
may be examined and considered before final adoption, per-
mitting, when deemed proper, public hearings thereon, and
after final adoption shall cause the same to be engrossed and
submitted to the President of the United States for approval:
Provided, however, That nothing herein contained shall be
deemed to affect or interfere with the local laws of the States
and Territories for the protection of nonmigratory game or
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other birds resident and breeding within their borders, nor to
prevent the States and Territories from enacting laws and
regulations to promote and render efficient the regulations of
the Department of Agriculture provided under this statute.

There is hereby appropriated, out of any moneys in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carry-
ing out these provisions, the sum of $10,000.

Approved, March 4, 1913.

Issued June 23, 1913

UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

BUREAU OF BIOLOGICAL SURVEY—CIRCULAR NO. 93
HENRY W. HENSHAW, Chief of Bureau

EXPLANATION OF THE PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR THE
PROTECTION OF MIGRATORY BIRDS

Laws for the protection of migratory birds hitherto enacted
have usually provided long open seasons and have been framed
mainly in the interests of the hunter rather than of the game.
In preparing the regulations under the Federal law for the
protection of migratory birds (37 Stat. 847), an effort has
been made to reduce the open seasons to reasonable limits,
to provide hunting at the time of the year when game birds
are most abundant and in the best condition, and in all cases
to give the benefit of the doubt to the bird. Recognizing the
fact that many species of shore birds and some of the water-
fowl have diminished to a point where they are approaching
extinction, protection has been extended to several species
throughout the year and to others at least three-fourths of the
year. The preparation of the regulations was intrusted to a
committee of members of the Biological Survey appointed by
the Acting Secretary of Agriculture on March 21, 1913. The
members of this committee were: T. S. Palmer, Assistant
Chief, chairman; A. K. Fisher, In Charge of Economic Investi-
gations; and W. W. Cooke, Migration Expert. The committee
at once took up the work of examining the data on file in the
Biological Survey relating to the distribution, migration, and
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protection of migratory birds, had a series of maps prepared,
collected much special information, and after numerous con-
ferences recommended the regulations contained in Circular
No. 92. These regulations differ from the ordinary restric-
tions under State laws, since they take into consideration the
‘entire range of the species and the condition of the birds at all
times of the year and not merely the local conditions when a
certain species is most abundant in some particular State or
region.
BASIS OF THE REGULATIONS

In carrying out the statutory requirement of “due regard to
the zones of temperature, breeding habits, times and line of
migratory flight,” the following are some of the more important
principles on which the regulations have been based:

To limit the list of migratory game birds to species properly
so called and to eliminate species too small to be considered
legitimate game or too rare to be longer hunted for sport or
profit. This list has been made to conform as closely as pos-
sible with the statutory definitions of game.

To prevent spring shooting.

To protect migratory birds between sunset and sunrise.

To provide protected flight lines along at least three of the
great navigable rivers.

To make the seasons approximately equal in length in
different parts of the country.

To limit the hunting seasons to a maximum of three or
three and one-half months.

To regulate these seasons according to latitude and times of
migration and to adjust them so that there may be reasonable
opportunity of securing 30 days’ shooting of any species at a
given place.

To provide separate seasons for waterfowl, rail, shore birds,
and woodcock. The woodcock seasons are made to conform
as nearly as possible with the seasons for upland game under
State laws, so that there may be no opportunity in close sea-
sons to hunt quail or grouse under the guise of shooting wood-
cock.

To curtail hunting at the end instead of the beginning of the
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open season, in the interest of both the birds and the sports-
men.

To utilize all the protection now accorded by the close sea-
sons under State Jaws and extend these seasons where neces-
sary.

EFFECT OF THE REGULATIONS

The probable effect of these regulations may be briefly
stated as follows:

(1) Uniformity in protection of migratory game and in-
sectivorous birds in the several States.

(2) Protection of birds in spring while en route to their
nesting grounds and while mating.

(3) Uniformity in protection of migratory birds at night.

(4) Establishment of protected migration routes along three
great rivers in the central United States.

(5) Complete protection for five years for the smaller
shore birds and other species which have become greatly re-
duced in numbers.

(6) Reduction of the open season on migratory game birds,
but in most cases not more than 25 to 50 per cent.

(7) No change in existing conditions before October 1, 1913.

DEFINITIONS

Although the law names the more important game birds, a
regulation defining the groups is necessary to show definitely
the kinds of birds included under the term ‘‘all other migratory
game and insectivorous birds.” In framing these definitions
the statutory definitions of the various State laws have been
followed as closely as possible in so far as they relate to migra-
tory species; the birds have been arranged in natural groups,
and the common names adopted by the American Ornitholo-
gists’ Union have been followed when the birds have more than
one common name since it is obviously impracticable to in-
clude all the local names.

NIGHT SHOOTING

The regulation prohibiting night shooting is intended to
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States protecting waterfowl or other birds at night or within
certain hours between sunset and sunrise so that the birds
may be unmolested on their roosting grounds and may have
time to feed after sunset or before sunrise. It will make no
change in existing law in about one-fourth of the States; it
will make existing regulations clearer in 9 States; it will add an
hour’s protection, more or less, in the morning and evening in
about one-fourth of the States; and it will regulate night shoot-
ing in 14 States which now have no restriction of this kind.

INSECTIVOROUS BIRDS

This regulation simply makes uniform the protection now
accorded these birds in more than 40 States. It protects the
robin, the lark, and other birds in the few States in which they
suffer from an open season. It attempts no change in existing
regulations regarding the issue of permits for collecting birds
for scientific purposes.

FIVE-YEAR CLOSE SEASONS

A close season for several years is provided in an effort to
harmonize the absolute protection already given some birds
in certain States, the demand for five-year close seasons on
shore birds, and the necessity for greater protection on other
birds which have been hunted beyond the margin of safety.
The protection accorded woodcock and rail is already existing
law; that on swans has been made uniform throughout all the
States, and that on wood ducks extended from a few States in
the Northeast to most of the States in Zone No. 1 east of the
Mississippi River. The only important additions are the
additional protection given band-tailed pigeons in a few States
and the close season placed on avocets, cranes, curlew, god-
wits, killdeer, stilts, upland plover, willet, and the smaller
shore birds.

NAVIGABLE RIVERS

The suspension of hunting on the Ohio, Mississippi, and
Missouri Rivers allows waterfowl a safe highway from their
winter feeding grounds in the lower Mississippi Valley to their
nesting grounds in Minnesota and the Dakotas and forms an
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extended refuge which is easily defined and can be generally
recognized.

ZONES

More than 50 separate seasons for migratory birds were
provided under statutes in force in 1912. This multiplicity of
regulations or zones to suit special localities has apparently
had anything but a beneficial effect on the abundance of game.
The effort to provide special seasons for each kind of game in
each locality merely makes a chain of open seasons for migra-
tory birds and allows the continued destruction of such birds
from the beginning of the first season to the close of the last.
It is believed that better results will follow the adoption of the
fewest possible number of zones and so regulating the seasons
in each as to include the time when each species is in the best
condition or at the maximum of abundance during the autumn.
For this reason the country has been divided into two zones,
as nearly equal as possible, one to include the States in which
migratory game birds breed or would breed if given reasonable
protection, the other the States in which comparatively few
species breed, but in which many winter. Within these zones
the seasons are fixed for the principal natural groups—water-
fowl, rail, shore birds, and woodcock. In no case does the
zone boundary cross a State line, and except in very rare
cases the seasons are uniform throughout the States. De-
viation from this rule leads ultimately to the recognition of a
multiplicity of local seasons, which has done so much to retard
game protection.

SEASONS IN ZONE NO. I

Apparently few changes have been made in existing hunting
seasons in Zone No. 1, except in the elimination of spring
shooting, and about half of the States in this zone now close
the season on waterfowl by the middle of December or the
first of January. In most States in this zone the hunting sea-
son begins on some date in September, and these dates have
generally been followed in the regulations. In two or three
cases in which States have several different seasons for different
counties it has been necessary to effect a compromise, either by
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adopting one season or the dates which most nearly conform
with the seasons in adjoining States. A slight change in a
few of the State laws would make it possible to eliminate most
of the exceptions and apparent inequalities in the seasons.

SEASONS IN ZONE NO. 2

In most cases the close seasons in Zone No. 2 end on the
same dates as the seasons under the State laws, but eliminate
spring shooting after January 15. This avoids confusion in
the opening of the hunting season and provides shooting in the
autumn or early winter, when the birds are in the best condi-
tion. In four States—Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina,
and South Carolina—the seasons for waterfowl do not open
until November 1, and the season is consequently extended to
February 1. The difference of 15 days in the length of the
season in these States as compared with the seasons elsewhere
is more than offset by the fact that the birds are present
practically throughout the open season, whereas in the northern
zone and in some States in the southern zone they are present
only part of the time.

HEARINGS

The object of the hearings is to afford persons interested an
opportunity to present evidence showing the necessity for
readjustment of some of the seasons so as to adapt them better
to local conditions and to submit new data regarding local
abundance of birds and times of migration. The department
already has ample information regarding the seasons provided
under existing laws and the changes which have been made
from time to time. The desire to have the hunting seasons
as long as possible is natural, but as such seasons have hereto-
fore been too long, the question is merely one of adjustment
within certain maximum limits. Consequently, if the birds
are to be restored, some curtailment of the season in each
State is essential. In such an effort general welfare should
take precedence over private or local interests. In recom-
mending changes the condition of each species should be con-
sidered throughout its range rather than in any one locality,
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and the effect of proposed changes in extending or shortening
the season as a whole in all the States must be given due
weight.

T. S. PALMER,

Chairman, Committee on Regulations on Migratory Birds.

Approved.
B. T. GALLoway,
Acting Secretary of Agriculture.
WaAsHINGTON, D. C., June 17, 1913.
APPENDIX B

Constitution of the Meriden Bird Club *

ARTICLE I. NAME

The name of this organization shall be The Meriden Bird
Club.
ARTICLE II. Objects

The objects of this Club shall be, the increase and pro-
tection of our local wild birds, the stimulation of interest in
bird life, and the gradual establishment of a model bird
sanctuary.

ArTIcLE III. MEMBERSHIP

SECTION I. The membership of this Club shall consist of
Associate Members, Active Members, Junior Members, Life
Members, Patrons and Benefactors.

SEcT. 2. Any person in sympathy with the objects of this
Club, whether a resident of the town or not, may become an
Associate member by paying the prescribed dues.

SeEcT. 3. Any resident of the town of Plainfield may become
an Active Member of this Club, on election by the Executive
Committee and payment of the prescribed dues.

Sect. 4. Any child under fourteen years of age may
become a Junior member of this Club, on the payment of
ten cents.

SEcT. 5. Any person in sympathy with the objects of this
Club may become a Life Member, Patron or Benefactor,
upon payment of the prescribed fee, and upon election by
the Executive Committee.

Secr. 6. The dues of an Associate Member shall be one
dollar, payable annually. The dues of an Active Member
shall be fifty cents, payable annually. The fee of a Life
Member shall be twenty-five dollars, payable at one time.

* For those clubs which wish something more formal than the Brush
Hill Bird Club Constitution, Mr. Baynes has very kindly allowed us to
print in full the Constitution of the Meriden Bird Club.

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The fee of a Patron shall be one hundred dollars, payable at
one time. The fee of a Benefactor shall be one thousand
dollars.

Sect. 7. The voting power shall be limited to Active
Members.

Secr. 8. A member may be expelled from the Club upon
the written recommendation of any officer, by the majority
vote of the members of the Executive Committee present
at any meeting, provided notice of such action, with reasons
therefor, be presented to the member and to the Executive
Committee, at least one week before the meeting.

ARTICLE IV. GOVERNMENT

SECTION I. The governing body of this Club shall consist
of a Board of Directors of twelve persons, divided inte two
groups of six each. The tenure of office of the Directors
shall be two years, but only six Directors’ terms can expire
by limitation in any one year. Therefore at each annual
meeting of the Club, six new members shall be elected by
ballot of a majority of the members present, due notice
having been given in advance to all members.

Sect. 2. The Board of Directors shall elect at its annual
meeting, from its own members, by ballot and a majority
vote, a President, four Vice-Presidents, a Secretary, a Treas-
urer and a General Manager.

Sect. 3. There shall also be an Executive Committee, to
consist of the officers of the Club, as mentioned in Section 2,
the President and the Secretary of the Senior Class of Kimball
Union Academy, and ten persons to be chosen by the Board
of Directors at its annual meeting.

SECT. 4. Vacancies occurring in the Board of Directors
and Executive Committee may be filled by the President,
or, in his absence, by the Executive Committee, to complete
the year in which they occur.

Sect. 5. At the annual meeting a Nominating Committee,
consisting of three members, shall be appointed by the pre-
siding officer; its duty shall be to present a list of candidates
to fill vacancies in the Board of Directors.
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ARTICLE V. DUTIES OF OFFICERS

SECTION I. The duties of officers shall be such as pertain
to their respective offices in similar clubs. The President
shall be ex-officio Chairman of the Board of Directors and of
the Executive Committee.

Sect. 2. The Vice-Presidents shall perform the duties of
the President, in his absence, in the order of seniority of
office.

Sect. 3. The Secretary shall record the proceedings of
the Club, of its Board of Directors and its Executive Com-
mittee, in books to be kept for that purpose; shall have charge
of the records of the Club and of its publications; shall con-
duct the correspondence of the Club, and keep a record thereof;
shall inform members, Directors and officers of their election,
and shall give notice of all meetings, and inform Directors
and officers of all matters requiring their attention.

Sect. 4. The Treasurer shall collect all bills and assessments
due the Club; shall pay from the funds of the Club all bills
duly approved by the President or the General Manager;
shall send to the Secretary at least once a month, the names
and addresses of all new members. He shall furnish, at the
request of the Executive Committee, a statement of the
financial condition of the Club.

SEctT. 5. The General Manager shall have general over-
sight of all the activities planned by the Club for carrying on
its work as indicated in Article IT.

ARTICLE VI. MEETINGS

Section 1. There shall be a regular meeting of the Club
on the third Saturday of each month, and the third Saturday
of September shall be the date of the annual meeting. A
printed notice of each regular meeting shall be posted in at
least two conspicuous places in the village, seven days prior
to each meeting.

SEcT. 2. A notice of the annual meeting shall be mailed
to each member not less than ten days prior to such meeting.

Sect. 3. A special meeting may be called at any time on

three days’ notice, by the President, by the General Manager,
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or on a written application signed by three members of the
Executive Committee.

Sect. 4. Nine members shall constitute a quorum at any
meeting of the Club.

SEcT. 5. Meetings of the Executive Committee may be
held at such times as may be appointed by the President,
or in his absence, by the Secretary, and two days’ notice of
each meeting shall be given. Three members shall consti-
tute a quorum.

Sect. 6. The order of business shall be as follows:

Reading records of previous meeting.

Reports of committees.

Reading of communications.

Election of members.

Unfinished business.

New business.

Sect. 7. Robert’s manual shall be the authority for the
decision of disputed questions of order and debate.

ARTICLE VII. AMENDMENTS

Amendments or alterations of the Constitution may be
made by a two-thirds vote of the members present at any
meeting, provided written notice of the proposed change
shall have been sent to every member of the Club not less
than four days prior to said meeting.
APPENDIX C
List of the Birds of Milton

Dr. Harris KENNEDY, Boston, August 20, 1914.
286 WARREN STREET,
Roxsury, Mass.

My dear Dr. Kennedy:

I enclose herewith two lists of birds—the first being a list
made up from my annual lists which I have kept during the
past eleven years, of birds seen and identified in and about
Milton and the neighboring towns.

The other list is of birds that I have seen in Eastern Massa-
chusetts and on the waters and bays of Massachusetts (but
not in the immediate vicinity of Milton) during substantially
the same period, that is, the last eleven years.

During the past six years I have kept the lists very care-
fully, with dates of the first appearance of the birds, and
memoranda of the approximate length of periods which they
continue with us.

I have usually carried field-glasses around with me when
looking for birds during the last six years and most of the
identifications are pretty certain. J have put a question-mark
after those of which I have any reasonable doubt as to their
correct identification, and have made a memorandum of those
which I have only found in one instance. J have some doubt
as to the year that I last saw a Purple Martin, in Milton, and
think it may have been even more than ten years ago, but I
have entered it, as I used to see them annually, and I have
very recently seen them in the neighborhood of Middleboro
and Concord.

I have decided not to send you a copy of the “‘ Rules for the
Bird Contest’’ which I have been using, partly for the reason
that with the younger children whom I have interested it has
seemed a little too complicated and they have not managed it
well, and I believe that in order to arouse the interest of chil-
dren from 8 to 14 years I shall have to devise some simpler
plan than that which I have used.

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You may, if you wish, say that I am a resident of Milton
who some years ago used to hunt and shoot the game birds,
shore birds and water fowl, but now pursues them only with
field-glasses.

Trusting that these lists and any part of this letter which
you may wish to use may add to the value of your publication,

I am

Very truly yours,

RatpH E. FORBES.

List of Birds seen in and about Milton and in the ad-
joining towns, during the years 1904 to 1914:

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COO ON AN AW DN

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dow

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14
15
16
17

19
20
2I
22
23
24
25

Bluebird

Robin

Hermit Thrush

Olive-backed Thrush

Bicknell’s Thrush (?)

Veery

Wood Thrush

Ruby-crowned Kinglet

Golden-crowned Kinglet

Chickadee

Red-breasted Nuthatch

White-breasted Nut-
hatch

Brown Creeper

Long-billed Marsh Wren

Winter Wren

House Wren

Great Carolina Wren

Brown Thrasher

Catbird

Mockingbird

Redstart

Canadian Warbler

Wilson’s Warbler

Yellow-breasted Chat?

Maryland Yellow-throat

26

27
28
29
30
31
32
33

34
35
36
37
38
39
40

41
42
43
44
45
46
47

Mourning Warbler (one
instance)
Connecticut Warbler
Northern Water Thrush
Oven-bird
Prairie Warbler
Yellow Palm Warbler
Pine Warbler
Black-throated Green
Warbler
Blackburnian Warbler
Black Poll Warbler
Bay-breasted Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Myrtle Warbler
Black-throated
Warbler
Yellow Warbler
Cape May Warbler
Parnla Warbler
Tennessee Warbler
Nashville Warbler
Golden-winged Warbler
Worm-eating Warbler
(one instance)

Blue
74

75
76
77
78
79
80
81

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Black and White Warb-
ler

Prothonotary Warbler
(?) (one instance)

Orange-crowned Warb-
ler (?) (one instance)

Solitary Vireo

Yellow-throated Vireo

Warbling Vireo

Red-eyed Vireo

Northern Shrike

Cedar-bird

Bank Swallow

White-bellied Swallow

Barn Swallow

Purple Martin

Scarlet Tanager

Indigo-bird

Rose-breasted Grosbeak

Chewink

Fox Sparrow

Swamp Sparrow

Song Sparrow

Junco

Field Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Tree Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

White-crowned Spar-
row

Henslow’s Sparrow (one
instance)

Savannah Sparrow

Vesper Sparrow

Snow Bunting

Siskin

American Goldfinch

Redpoll

Whitewing Crossbill

105

107
108
109
110
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113

114

AI5

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American Crossbill

English Sparrow

Purple Finch

Pine Grosbeak

Bronze Grackle

Rusty Blackbird

Redwing Blackbird

Cowbird

Baltimore Oriole

Orchard Oriole (?)

Meadow Lark

Bobolink _

Starling (one instance)

Crow

Blue Jay

Shore Lark

Least Flycatcher

Alder Flycatcher

Yellow-bellied Fly-
catcher

Wood Pewee

Olive-sided Flycatcher

Phoebe

Great-crested Fly-

_ catcher

Kingbird

Ruby-throated Hum-
mingbird

Chimriey Swift

Nighthawk

Whip-poor-will

Flicker

Downy Woodpecker

Hairy Woodpecker

Yellow-bellied Sap-
sucker

Belted Kingfisher

Black-billed Cuckoo

Yellow-billed Cuckoo
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118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139

Screech Owl

Osprey (?)

Sparrow Hawk
Pigeon Hawk

Bald Eagle
Broad-winged Hawk
Red Shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
Cooper’s Hawk
Sharp shinned Hawk
Marsh Hawk
Mourning Dove
Ruffed Grouse

Quail

English Pheasant
Spotted Sandpiper
Summer Yellow-leg
Winter Yellow-leg
Hudsonian Curlew (?)
Sora Rail

Woodcock

Night Heron

Green Heron

114

140
141

142
143
144
145
146
147
148
149

150
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152
153
154
155
156
157
158
159
160

Great Blue Heron

White Heron (one in-
stance)

American Bittern

Least Bittern (?)

Canada Goose

White-wing Scoter

Bufflehead

Whistler

Wood Duck

Pintail (probably
wounded)

Baldpate

Black Duck

Mallard Duck

Red-breasted Merganser

American Merganser

Common Tern (?)

Ring-billed Gull

Herring Gull

Black-backed Gull

Loon

Least Sandpiper

Other birds seen in Eastern Massachusetts, but not in
the immediate vicinity of Milton, during the years 1904
to 1914:

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Brant

Buzzard

Great Horned Owl
Barred Owl
Cormorant

Old Squaw
American Scoter
Surf Scoter
Hooded Merganser
Pied-bill Grebe
Horned Grebe

12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22

Eider Duck

Red Head Duck
Greater Scaup Duck
Red throated Loon
Gannett

Blue-wing Teal
Green-wing Teal
Leach’s Petrel
Wilson’s Petrel
Bonaparte Gull
Kittiwake
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31

32
33
34
35

37
38

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Laughing Gull

Roseate Tern

Arctic Tern

Least Tern

Shearwater

Jaeger

Duck Hawk

Rough-legged Hawk (?)

Red-headed Wood-
pecker

Pipit

Louisiana Water Thrush

Blue-wing Warbler

Ruddy Turnstone

Kildeer Plover (?)

Ring-neck Plover

Golden Plover

39
40
41
42

43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53

Beetle-head Plover

Upland Plover

Piping Plover

Semi-Palmated Sand-
piper

Solitary Sandpiper

White-rump Sandpiper

Stilt Sandpiper

Pectoral Sandpiper

Sanderling

Razor-billed Auk

Grasshopper Sparrow

White-eyed Vireo

American Coot

Wilson Snipe

Seaside (or Sharp-tailed)
Sparrow (?)
Key Acreage

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80

APPENDIX D

The Game Preserves of Massachusetts

1. Fish HATCHERIES AND BREEDING GROUNDS

Location

Person Interested

12,000 October Mt. (Washington County)

1,000 Charlemont
50 Scituate Third Cliff

Mark W. Potter

These three are merely posted.

68 209 Wilbraham

71 3,000 Martha’s Vineyard
78 23 Sutton

77 20 Sandwich

78 233 Palmer

79 2 Adams

The above are tracts controlled by the Fish and Game Commission as
fish hatcheries or bird and game breeding grounds.

2. Pustic LANDS MADE PRESERVES

State Reservations which come under Ch. 362, Acts 1909

Key Acreage Institution Town

I 509 Danvers State Hospital Hawthorne

2 103 Foxborough State Hospital Foxborough

3 1,600 Gardner State Colony Gardner

4 75 Lakeville State Sanitorium Middleboro

5 65 Mass. Hospital School Canton

6 100 Mass. School for the Feeble Minded Waverly i

6 2,000 “ ee eas Shy . Templeton

7 450 Medfield State Asylum Harding

8 288 Monson State Hospital Palmer

9 1,006 Norfolk State Hospital Norfolk
Io ~—- §51 Northampton State Hospital Northampton
II 80 No. Reading State Sanatorium No. Wilmington
12 100 Penikese Hospital Penikese Is.
13. 360 Rutland State Sanatorium Rutland
14 742 State Infirmary Tewksbury
15 352 Taunton State Hospital Taunton
16 763 Westborough State Hospital Westborough
17-175 Westfield State Sanatorium Westfield
18 got Worcester State Asylum Grafton

Colony Worcester
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Key Acreage Institution Town
19 1,000 Worcester State Hospital Worcester
20 200 Wrentham State School Wrentham
21 ~=700 Industrial School for Boys Shirley
22 300 Lyman School for Boys Westboro
23 258 Mass. Reformatory Concord
24 1,000 Prison Camp and Hospital Rutland
25 333 Reformatory Prison for Woman Sherborn
26 50 Industrial School for Girls Lancaster
27 1,200 State Farm Bridgewater
28 400 Mass. Agricultural College Amherst
29 37 Perkins Institution and Mass. School
for the Blind Watertown
30 7 Soldiers’ Home Chelsea
31 8,160 Greylock Reservation Commission Adams
32. 259 Deer Hill Reservation Plainfield and Cummington
33 800 Mount Everett Reservation Com-
mission Mount Washington
34 go Mount Sugar Loaf Deerfield
35 1,800 Mount Tom Holyoke and Northampton
36 1,500 Wachusett Mt. State Reservation
Commission Princeton and Westminster

Key
50
51
52
54
55

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. PRIVATE PROPERTIES UNDER CONTROL OF COMMISSION

Reservations under Chapter 410, Acts of 1911

Acreage Location Person Interested
3,000 Hubbardston Morgan & Cunningham
1,000 Sconticut Neck, Fairhaven D. C. Potter

1,000 Topsfield A. H. Wellman

1,200 Brookfield C. D. Richardson

5,000 Marshfield L. B. Sherman

2,000 Wayland-Sudbury J. E. Chandler

2,000 Sharon Selectmen
APPENDIX E
A Partial List of Bird Clubs

Below we list the bird clubs that have come to our atten-
tion, and would ask our readers to send us the name of any
bird club that they know of, that we may, in time, have a
complete list of those organizations especially interested in
bird life.

Alma, Mich. Alma Bird Club.

Arlington, Mass. The Middlesex Sportman’s Asso-
ciation. ‘‘The Protection and
Preservation of Fish, Game and
Insectivorous Birds.”

Baltimore, Md. Roland Park Bird Club, Roland
Park.

Barre, Vt. Barre Bird Club.

Bedford Hills, N. Y. Bedford Hills Bird Club.

Belmont, Mass. The Belmont Branch of the Massa-

chusetts Audubon Society. This
is really an independent bird club,
but half the dues are given to the
parent organization. A noble ex-

ample.
Bridgeport, Conn. Audubon Society State of Connec-
ticut.
Brookline, Mass. The Brookline Bird Club.
Burlington, Vt. The Vermont Bird Club.
Cambridge, Mass. The Nutall Ornithological Club.
Canton, Mass. The Canton Bird Club.
Charlestown, N. H. The Charlestown Bird Club.
Claremont, N. H. The Claremont Bird Club.
Concord, Mass. High School Bird Club.

Emerson Grammar School Bird Club.
West Concord Grammar School
Bird Club.
Cornish, N. H.
and The Cornfield Bird Club.

Plainfield, N. H.
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Culver, Ind.

Franklin, N. H.

Glens Falls, N. Y.
Greenfield, Mass.
Greenwich, Conn.

Groton, Mass.
Hanover, N. H.
Hartford, Conn.
Lenox, Mass.
Meriden, N. H.
Milton, Mass.

Montpelier, Vt.

Newton Centre, Mass.

New Haven, Conn.
Norwalk, Conn.
Pittsfield, Mass.
Southboro, Mass.
Springfield, Mass.
Walpole, N. H.
Wellesley Hills, Mass.
Worcester, Mass.
Wyncote, Pa.

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Woodcraft Bird Club, Culver Mili-
tary Academy.

The Franklin Bird Club.

Glens Falls Bird Club.

The Audubon Club.

The Greenwich Bird Protective As-
sociation.

The Groton Bird Club.

The Hanover Bird Club.

The Hartford Bird Club.

The Lenox Bird Club.

The Meriden Bird Club.

The Brush Hill Bird Club. P. O.
Readville.

Montpelier Bird Club.

The Newton Centre Bird Club.

The New Haven Bird Study Club.

The Norwalk Bird Club.

The Pittsfield Bird Club.

Fay School Bird Club.

Springfield Bird Club.

The Walpole Bird Club.

The Wellesley Bird Club.

The Ridgway Bird Club

Wyncote Bird Club.
APPENDIX F

For the benefit of those who are not familiar with
Italian, we give below a translation of the two Italian
posters issued by the Massachusetts Commissioners on
Fisheries and Game.

NOTICE

Persons of Foreign Birth not Naturalized Must Procure an
Official License to Hunt Birds or Animals.

Act of 1905—-Chapter 317 as amended from the Act of 1910
Chapter 614.

SEcTION I. It is illegal for aliens to hunt, chase, trap or
kill any bird or wild animal within the limits of the Common-
wealth, unless such person has a license as provided in the
following article.

Extract from SECTION 2a.

Such license will be valid only for the period of the year in
which wild animals may be killed, and for the hunting and
killing of such birds and animals as is legally allowed under
the restriction of the law and provided it is done in such
manner as is imposed and authorized by the law.

Certain Kinds of Birds and Animals May Not Be Killed at any
Season of the Year and Trapping Them in any Manner
is Absolutely Forbidden at any Time.

Under penalty of a fine of not less than $10 nor more than

$50.
Persons tearing down or disfiguring this notice are liable to

a penalty of $25.
COMMISSIONERS ON FISHERIES AND GAME.

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ITALIANS!

Wherever we are, let Order, Peace and Love reign—

Order means obedience to the Laws—

Peace and Love spring forth from the respect we have for
the feelings of others—

The law protects innocence—the law protects the song-
birds—

The sentiment of our adoptive countrymen demands love
and protection for the pretty little birds which do so much
to make the country fertile, attractive and joyous—

Disobedience to the laws brings heavy penalties!

Disobedience to the just sentiments of our adoptive country-
men places us in discredit!

No fines! No discredit!
Let no one kill the birds.
The Italian creates Beauty, but does not destroy it.

The Italian loves song—
Let the sweet singers of the woods and valleys be spared—
Let the laws and public sentiment be respected.

Do not destroy but construct—
Be not cruel but kindhearted!
The hunting of song birds is prohibited any time of the year
under penalty of ten dollars.
All foreigners must have a license to hunt or incur a
penalty of twenty dollars.
GEORGE W. FIELD,
Epwarp A. BRACKETT,
Joun W. DELANo,

Commissioners on Fisheries and Game
of the State of Massachusetts.
STUPIDITY STREET

I saw with open eyes
Singing birds sweet
Sold in the shops

For the people to eat,
Sold in the shops of
Stupidity Street.

I saw in vision

The worm in the wheat,
And in the shops nothing
For people to eat;
Nothing for sale in
Stupidity Street.

RatpH Hopcson.

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