Bird lore - Project Puffin

Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 475
pose to arrange for two or three lectures during the coming winter, in order that
there may be a continual stimulus given to birds and their protection. We
are seriously considering employing a game-keeper whose business it will be to
stimulate not only active interest in birds among the summer residents of the
borough of Rumson, but among the natives and school-children as well.
Barrows, President.
Seattle (Wash.) Audubon Society.—This Society was organized in
April, 1 91 6, and affiliated with the national organization in August, during
the time of T. Gilbert Pearson's visit to Seattle. There are at present 114
members. Field-walks were taken each month during the summer to acquaint
the members with our local birds. Formal addresses have been made before
the Society by Prof. Trevor Kincaid on 'Economic Value of Birds' ; by Adelaide
Pollock on 'The Birds of Puget Sound'; by S. F. Rathbun on 'Bird Migration;'
and by T. Gilbert Pearson on 'The History and Work of the Audubon
Movement.'
Through the Superintendent of Schools the following extract from the
Washington Audubon law was read and posted in each school-room in the
city, and through the Park Superintendent the same notice was posted at our
park entrances:
"SESSION LAWS OF 1903, CHAPTER 134"
"Sec. 2. No person shall, within the State of Washington, take or needlessly destroy
the nest or the eggs of any wild bird other than a game bird, or have such nest or eggs
in his or her possession.
"Sec. 3. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this act shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor, and shall be liable to a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred
dollars for each offense, and an additional fine of one dollar for each bird, living or dead,
or part of bird or nest, or set of eggs, or part thereof, possessed in violation of this act,
together with the costs of prosecuting in such action, or to imprisonment for thirty
days in the county jail, or both, at the discretion of the court."
We are planning for a bird-exhibit in February, and are offering two prizes
to pupils for the best essays on 'Bird-Protection.' Mrs. Charles Crick-
more, President.
Sewickley Valley (Pa.) Audubon Society.— This Society was organized
on April 28, 1914, and has now 234 members. We became afhliated with the
National Association on June 12, 1914.
The past year, under the administration of President C. B. Horton, has been
one of unusual activity and interest. Ernest Harold Baynes gave an illus-
trated lecture to the Society in the early winter, and his suggestions for feeding
and attracting birds were widely adopted. An illustrated lecture by W. S.
Thomas (City Ornithologist of Pittsburgh) in the early spring was a timely aid
to the still further placing of bird-houses. From the middle of May until the
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