Bird lore - Project Puffin

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Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 457
years. Dietrich Lange, Prof. F. L. Washburn, and Franic Blair. Through
their kindness and courtesy the Club has been able to have several free lec-
tures, illustrated with fine slides of bird-life. Dr. Roberts has also prepared
for the use of the Club a migration blank—a complete check-list of the birds
of Hennepin County—which has proved a great help to intelligent observa-
tion. The officers are as follows: President, Mrs. Phelps Wyman; Vice-Presi-
dent, Mrs. Jerome P. Jackson; Secretary, Mrs. Judson L. Wicks; Treasurer,
Miss Mathilde E. Holtz. Gertrude P. Wicks, Secretary.
Beaver (Pa.) Field and Audubon Club.— This Club was organized in March,
1914, for the purpose of natural-history study, and for disseminating knowl-
edge along these lines. From a small gathering of forty at the first meeting,
the membership rapidly increased until now about 135 are enrolled.
The Club has planted mulberry trees around the town to furnish food for
the birds, and was so successful with the bird-houses set up in parks and private
grounds, that, following our example, the manual-training departments of
the schools have made and set up 135 houses of different types. Our regular
meetings are held on the second Friday evening of each month, and, in season-
able weather, monthly tramps are taken. These arc especially well attended
during the spring migrations.
We try to have a noteworthy lecture every other month throughout the
year, and the intermediate meetings are given up to the reports of our recorders,
personal observations, readings from Burroughs, Job, Sharp, etc., and also
articles from Bird-Lore and The Auk. We are fortunate in having on our
Advisory Board, W. E. Clyde Todd of the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh
(who is our Honorary President), and he has given us lectures from time to
time. We have also had lectures by Professor Randall of the University of
Pittsburgh; by Dr. Joseph Kalbfus of the State Game Commission; and by
Dr. C. Mace Thomas, of Beaver College, besides many formal talks on the
nature-writers by those who know them personally.
Our records are carefully kept by the bird-recorder, and censored by Mr.
Todd. Birds observed by members in Beaver County and carefully identified
for our three seasons are as follows: 1914, 137; 1915, 122; 1916 (to October
10), 124.
The Bird Committee erected shelters in the woods around Beaver last
winter, and fed the birds regularly. At one little feeding-station of bark,
'Barkhaven,' we have counted as many as eleven different kinds of birds feed-
ing, and the food had to be replenished twice a week. The accompanying
illustration shows a feeding-shelter just erected by a member. Our annual
dues are very small—ten and twenty-five cents—in order that the Club ma\'
be open to all, so that not until this year have we felt able to join the Audu-
bon Association. Last April, however, we procured the Association's two-reel
film 'Spirit of Audubon,' and had it showm at the local theater, and thus made