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Identifier: birdlore181916nati (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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of hearing Ernest Harold Baynes deliver his interesting lecture MyWild Bird Guests at our local Chatauqua, and as a direct result of his assis-tance our Society was enabled to enroll thirty-three new members, and thewhole subject of bird-study and protection received a new impetus in thecommunity. We have placed the magazine Bird-Lore in the public library, Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 479 and have also been instrumental in securing for the library a set of John Bur-roughss books, and several books on the study of birds by H. K. Job andothers. We now have seventy members enrolled, and are planning to extend ourwork and influence into the country schools. The teachers of the city gradedschools are among our most enthusiastic bird-students, and they have alreadyorganized several Junior Classes.—H. W. Foltz, Corresponding Secretary. Wyncote (Pa.) Bird Club.—The Wyncote Bird Club was organized inApril, 1914, by Ernest Harold Baynes, and has constantly increased in member-
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JUNIOR MEMBERS OF I HI W ^ 1 ( 1 I I I \ I I I 1 IT WAS UCCUPIKU LATER BV A BIRD-HOUSE. BLUKBlROb ship till now there are 119 members. Everiing meetings are held monthly.Usually a local bird-student gives a talk on some phase of bird-life, and severaltimes members have shown stereopticon slides from their own photographs ofbirds or of the activities of the Club. Indoor meetings of the Club are held forthe Juniors every month during the winter, when bird-nest boxes and feeding-devices are made, and the Audubon leaflets are colored and studied. There isalways a good attendance, so that it has become necessary to restrict these meet-ings to members only. The young folks are taken on bird-walks. Some of thebird-boxes made in winter are erected during these walks, and there is greatexcitement when in June they are found to be occupied by Wrens and Bluebirds.We have had several good lectures by outside speakers. Mr. Baynes very 48o Bird - Lore generously gave us several lectures while in Wy

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