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" Vou caniioi 7filh a scalpel find the poet' s soul, Nor yet the wild bird's song." Edited by Mrs. Mabel Osgood Wright (President of the Audubon Society of the State of Connecticut), Fairfield, Conn., to whom all communications relating to the work of the Audubon and other Bird Protective Societies should be addressed. Reports, etc., designed for this department should be sent at least one month prior to the date of publication. DIRECTORY OF STATE AUDUBON SOCIETIES With names and addresses of their Secretaries New Hampshire Mrs. F. W. Batchelder, Manchester. Massachusetts Miss Harriet E. Richards, care Boston Society of Natural History, Boston. Rhode Island Mrs. H. T. Grant, Jr., 187 Bowen street. Providence. Connecticut Mrs. William Brown Glover, Fairfield. New York Miss Emma H. Lockwood, 243 West Seventy-fifth street, New York City. New Jersey Miss Anna Haviland, 53 Sandford ave., Plainfield, N.J. Pennsylvania Mrs. Edward Robins, 114 South Twenty-first street, Philadelphia. District of Columbia Mrs. John Dewhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delamore place, Wilmington. Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. Florida Mrs. I. Vanderpool, Maitland. Ohio Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. Indiana W'. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, 20S West street, Wheaton. Iowa Mrs. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin Mrs. Reuben G. Thwaits, 260 Langdon street, Milwaukee. Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. Wyoming Mrs, N. R. Davis, Cheyeinie. Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. Tennessee Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlands. Encouraging Signs Bird protection is daily receiving fresh impetus and that of the most valtiable kind. It seems to be thoroughly understood that feather wearing is a custom to be con- demned, and one only to be stamped out by good laws and practical education in the matter of the value of bird-life and its con- nection with general natural history, so that we hear less of the millinery side of the question, and the Audubon movement is reaching a higher plane. At the present time all the Atlantic states from Maine to Florida are linked by the A. O. U. law or its equivalent, and the experiment of sending out traveling lecture libraries of birds and nature books has been so suc- cessful in Connecticut that other states are following suit. The future would be rosy, indeed, but for one cloud on the horizon, and that is the difficulty of enforcing these laws that are our battle flags. The proper local enforcement of bird laws is indeed a difficult task, requiring moral courage, tact, and a clear head; also the reporting of offenders should be made by a legalized official, who can act without the stigma of personality that must always be felt when we complain of the law breaking of our neighbors. If the deputy sheriffs of each county could be appointed as bird wardens, warning could be adminis- tered and the incorrigible prosecuted in a purely impersonal manner. It has also been suggested that in order to make the laws effective in many places they should be posted in Hungarian and Italian, for the latter race come to us with particularly lax ideas about bird killing. Undoubtedly the country is thoroughly aroused : the task now before us is to hold (146)