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Identifier: birdlore161914nati (find matches)
Title: Bird lore
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: National Committee of the Audubon Societies of America National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals National Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds Birds Ornithology
Publisher: New York City : Macmillan Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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cial Audubon button designed for them by the society of that name. A medal is alsooffered to the Scout who can show the best work done for bird-protection dur-ing the year. This interesting work with the Scouts was begun only lastspring, but promises happy relations between boys and birds. The usual activities have been continued during the year. The traveling libraries have been renewed, and, with the generous assistance of the NationalAssociation, the Pennsylvania Society has planned for this autumn a tour ofthe state by Henry Oldys, of Washington, the well-known lecturer on birds,whose rendering of bird-songs has delighted so many Audubon audiences.This tour, which will begin in the middle of October, will, it is hoped, not onlybe of use to the Junior Audubon Classes, but will increase the interest in thework of the National Association and the State Society, With these plans onfoot the Pennsylvania Society feels that it has a busy year ahead,—Elizabeth Wilson Fisher, Secretary.
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WITMER STONE President of the Pennsylvania Society (5^7) 528 Bird - Lore Rhode Island.—Our State Audubon Society has had a prosperous year.In addition to the regular work of forming Junior Classes, holding field-trips and lectures, and keeping its circulating and traveling libraries at work, theSociety has taken a quiet but exceedingly active interest in bird-legislation.Every Congressman from Rhode Island supported the migratory-bird law, andthe plumage bill. The Society is also responsible in a large measure for thechange in the personnel of the State Bird Commission, which consists of fivemen, representing every county of the State, and all appointed at one timeby the Governor for a term of three years. The membership of this Commission has always consisted wholly of sportsmen, interested primarily in the killing of birds. The new Commission, for 1914-1917, has three memberswho are particularly concerned in the protection of birds, one of them a Direc-tor of our Society. Through the

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