62 Tue Witson BuLretin, No. 74. 
Least Sandpipers, 200 Semipalmated Plovers, 18 Black Terns, 2 
Sanderlings, 1 Pectoral Sandpiper, 7 Golden Ployers, 2 Black- 
bellied Plovers, many Greater Yellow-legs and Yellow-legs and Wil- 
son’s Snipe. 
13. On October 25 I shot an immature male of the Red-backed 
Sandpiper at the Grand Reservoir, my first positive record for this 
region. 
14. On November 15 I shot and saw my last Woodcock for the 
season, a good late date, and on December 3 a fine female of the 
Wood Duck was shot at the Loramie Reservoir and brought in to 
me on December 5. W. F. HENNINGER. 
NOTES FROM NORTH-EASTERN ILLINOIS. 
The fall of 1910 seems to have been exceptional in bringing to 
us the Eyening Grosbeak at an unusual date. Other species of in- 
terest recorded were the Red Crossbill, seen here November 12, 
though unquestionably heard as early as October 10, and the Sis- 
kin, which was reported from Addison, this county, by Professor 
Hifrig. 
Here the Siskin’s movements appear to be very erratic. Lyening 
Grosbeaks were noted at Lincoln and Jackson Parks, Chicago, dur- 
ing the latter half of October, and reported from Lake Forest 
more than ordinarily plentiful. A solitary female was observed at 
Glen Ellyn by the writer November 2, the first appearance of the 
species here to my knowledge since December, 1889, during which 
season it was seen at several places in this corner of the state. 
This bird did not tarry long, as was to be expected in the short- 
age of its accustomed food, the persistent fruit of the box-elder, 
which the past spring was entirely killed in the blossom by the 
April freeze-up. This fact may account for the early arrival of 
Grosbeaks this fall, as the abnormal weather of that period coy- 
ered a wide area. It will doubtless be shown, too, that the birds 
have gone much farther south this year than usual on that ac- 
count. 
that account. 
In a letter to the writer, dated January 22, 1911, Miss Elizabeth 
Fldridge, of Plainfield, contributes some interesting facts relating 
to the present status of the Prairie Hen in this part of the state. 
She writes that during a walk last November sixty of them were 
counted in a pasture near their home, and since then others, as 
many as twenty at one time, have come about the place. 
Last season a brood of nine was hatched from a nest in the 
roadway not far from their house. Such reports are encouraging 
compared with one received last fall from St. Charles on the Fox 
