The Audubon Society

With the first of December the Aiulubon Society for the Protección of Birds entereti on its seventeenth thousuud of enrolled members. As the plan of the society was only announced in February last, and the lirst certinVates of meinbership ii-sued in April, the laree Dumber o( mriiiliris on tlie books of the society is an indieation of the very wide-sprei:d interest t aken in the subject of bird irotection b}' the general public. The intluence of the society has made itself feit in the best quarters, and although feathers are still worn to some extent, they ire for the most part those of game and domestic birds, and we no lonjrer see liats trimmed with the lieads and wlngs of half a dozen tiny song birds. There is no expense connected with membershlp in the Aiuliibon Society, which s laborin; solely to edúcate people to appreciate the value of' our birds to the country at large. The society wants a local secretary in every lowu in the land. It issues handsome certiücates of inembership bearitio: a portrait of John James Audubon, tl ie great naturalist trom whom it tekca its name. Informntion as to lts methods and plans may be had by adilressinK the Audnbon Society, 40 Park How, New York, (,'ity.