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Title: Bird lore
Identifier: birdlore191917nati (find matches)
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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Reports of State Societies and Bird Clubs 451 some legislation passed. Our bill, introduced and warmly sponsored by State Senator A. J. Sawyer, of Lincoln, providing for a closed season on Doves, successfully passed and became a law. However, a provision for the setting apart of certain designated areas, both wooded lands and some lake regions in the sand-hill country, failed of passage. Our members have been most keenly interested in the efforts of the National Association to preserve the Migratory Bird Law and the Treaty with Great Britain. Numerous telegrams and letters were sent to Washington to our Senators and Representatives and to committees in behalf of these measures. The 200 suet-holders which were purchased early last fall by the Society and placed in the parks and along the boulevards, were certainly a delight to our winter visitants and sojourners. The suet was provided by the Society, and the Committee, aided by the Boy Scouts, kept the holders replenished. The Society purchased, through the National Geographic Society, a set of fifty slides of Nebraska birds, painted by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. These beauti-
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ON -THE SHORE, CHILD'S POINT BIRD SANCTUARY, OMAHA, NEBRASKA. ful slides have been of tremendous value to our work. Requests for the use of them have come to us from all over the state, and they have made a dozen journeys to different towns in Nebraska and Iowa. The slides have been shown a score of times in Omaha at churches, settlement and civic centers, with lectures by our President, Dr. Towne, and others. Enos Mills' lecture on

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