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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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ng to bird-Hfe. With the Museum servingas a nucleus, we hope to stimulate more interest in birds among the people ofour city. Junior Audubon Classes have been organized in about thirty ofthe public schools. A strong desire was felt for a bird-study class, but noleader was available during the winter months, so a specially welcome feat-ure of last spring was a series of twenty lectures, illustrated with slides andfilms, on The Bird, given to our members by Dr. T. S. Roberts, StateOrnithologist and long-time bird-student.—Gertrude P. Wicks, Secretary. Minnesota Game-Protective League.—We have not put forth any effortduring the past year to increase our membership or start any new work, buthave just done enough to keep the organization intact and to keep closewatch on wild-life conditions so that no opening up of the laws will be broughtabout by those who would destroy the wild life with the excuse that,Mue tothe war, the game-birds and animals could be made to supply the people with
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THE QUERCUS BIRD-BATH, DESIGNED BY MRS. LOUIS SAINT-GAUDENS, AND PRE-SENTED TO THE MERIDEN (N. H.) BIRD CLUB BY HELEN FOSTER BARNETT (498) Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 499 an abundance of food. The State League convention, which was booked forSt. Paul the last week of August, was canceled, due to war conditions which havetaken hundreds of our members into the Government service. Although theconvention was canceled, it does not mean that the League will go backward,but rather that it will hold its present position and use its powers during the1919 session of the state legislature to bring about such changes as are thoughtnecessary to better conserve and increase the wild life in the state. Our investigations of the conditions of the various species of wild life in thestate show that the Quail, which are found in the southern portions of thestate, have come back in fine shape, due to weather conditions being in everyway satisfactory this past year and the last winter not be

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