VL)t 3^uDubon Societies

" You cannot -with a scalpel Jimi thf pot't'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), Faiifield, 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. Lockvvood, 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 Devvhurst Patten, 3033 P street, Washington. Delaware Mrs. Wm. S. Hilles, Delainore place, Wilmington. Maryland Miss Anne Weston Whitney, 715 St. Paul street, Baltimore. South Carolina Miss S. A. Smyth, Legare street, Charleston. Florida Ohio. Mrs. D. Z. McClelland, 5265 Eastern ave., Cincinnati. Indiana. W. W. Woolen, Indianapolis. Illinois Miss Mary Drummond, Wheaton. Iowa Mks. L. E. Felt, Keokuk. Wisconsin. Mrs. George W. Peckham, 646 Marshall street, Milwaukee. Minnesota Miss Sarah L. Putnam, 125 Inglehart street, St. Paul. Kentucky Ingram Crockett, Henderson. Tennessee............................... Mrs. C. C. Conner, Ripley. Texas California Mrs. George S. Gay, Redlaiids. Notes Hut it is not enough merely to enact laws; The work of a far-seeing Connecticut t'"^y ^"^1 be enforced and doubtful points gentleman, Mr. E. Knight Sperry, in secur- must be settled by the courts. The bird ing the co6peration of farmers in allowing 'aws of the United States, usually called their lands to be. without interference to game laws, are of two kinds (a) State or cultivation, banded in retreats where, in 'ocal laws and {h) Federal laws, addition to protection, game birds may find State laws prescribe the kinds of birds food in the hungry season, has suggested a "'I'^-h ^^Y or may not be killed, the work on similar li'iu^ tl,a. inav W done for time and manner in which they may be non-game aiul song birds and at the same '^ken, and the purpose for which they may time give an adde.l held of labor and in- l'^' ^-apUired. Thus the Illinois game law terest to all protectionists. ^I^»i"'^^ S^me birds and prohibits the killing This topic will be fuliv discussed in the "f of'i" ^irds at any time. In providing for next issue of HiRO-LoRK. Pame it fixes a definite season for shooting Acting on a suggestion made in this de- M":'il and ducks, but forbids the killing of partment in December, 1899. Dr. T. S. "^^s at any season from a sail boat, with Palmer has kindly sent Bird-I.orc the a swivel gun, or after sunset; furthermore following admirable statement of the legal 't declares that it shall be unlawful to cap- status of birds. -M. (). V. "'re 'U'ail i" tlie State for sale, or to ship to other States except under license. In all Some Fundamental Principles of Bird "'e'*'- '"alters the State is supreme and Laws violations of its laws arc tried in the State iiv I', s. I'aimkh courts. A(ki|uatc laws necessarily form the The federal law, coimiionlv known a* fouiiilaiion of effective bird protection. the I.acev .ci. or the .Act of Ma JS.