Identifier: birdlore111909nati (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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f nature and the need of protection, etc. Noofficer receives any returns for directing the work, except in pleasure which resultsthrough returns for securing members, collecting dues, or other parts of the Leagueservice apart from professional lectures. One hundred and ten addresses have been given since the last Report wasissued. Thanks are due the following-named members and friends who havegiven addresses on forestry, bird life, conchology, self-restraint and other topics:Messrs. O. C. Horseman, R. B. Werney, A. MacCall, B. O. Tyler, Wm. Hughes, 322 Bird - Lore E. \. Curtis, C. E. Hasselgravc, L MacNaughton,\V. Hoppaugh, J. \V.\anIngaa,R. Wilkinson, H. B. Kummel, H. Tuttle; to the United States Forestry Servicefor lecture? by Mr. Enos A. Mills, and to Mr. B. S. Bowdish, through whosecourtesy, and that of the National Audubon Society, eleven illustrated addresseson birds were given. Thanks are also due Miss Julia Rogers, Miss L. R. Morris,and Miss M. A. Burnett, for similar service.
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LAir.lilXi; (,l LL NEST AND EGGS La Rue Holnus Xaluri- Lovers League Bird Refuge. Formerly the scene of merciless slauKhtcr of breeding birds for millinery ornaments. Photographed by B. S. Bowdish Our chapters have found much pleasure in the address given by Mr. A. S.Williams, illustrated by living reptiles, and in the entertainments given by Mr. E.Avis, who so wonderfully reproduces the bird songs, the joyous choirs of the woods. Immediately after the organization of the League movement, Mr. WilliamDutcher, who is ever alert to provide for the needs of our little feathered friends,called attention to the fact that no provision had been made, through any agency,for the protection of the Gulls, and other birds nesting on the New Jersey coast.Mr. Dutcher kindly consented to negotiate for the purchase, in behalf of the or-ganization, of an island of some hundred and fifty acres, hereafter to be known State Audubon Reports 323 as the LaRue Holmes Nature Lovers League Bird Refuge, which ha

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