FIELD NOTEs. 63 
River west of here. It was through my friend, Ruthven Deane, 
of Chicago, and to the effect that one farmer near there was 
poisoning the Prairie Hens, as a result of the damage they were 
doing to his crops. What a mind and what reasoning! This of 
course is an isolated case. Otherwise it would offer a splendid 
opportunity for effective institute work. 
Miss Hldridge mentions the Flickers as wintering in her local- 
ity this season. 
It is interesting to note that our first spring arrival here this 
year was the Flicker, two being seen February 26. To-day, March 
5, Robins are in evidence, and in song. 
December 8 was made memorable by the presence of the Pine 
Grosbeak on our place. With us, a rare late fall and early win- 
ter visitant, my records are few. ‘There were two on this occa- 
sion, one a rich red male, the other in female dress. The writer 
discovered them together at 1 p. m. feeding upon the persistent 
fruit of the snowberry, 8. racemosus. It was an interesting sight ; 
the birds, and the clusters of partly withered fruit; the snow- 
coyered ground, and bright sunlight, making in all a combination 
of rare merit. 
Glen Ellyn, 11. Banu. LT, GAULT. 
Personals 
OUR MEMBERS HERE AND THERE. 
Mr, W. M. Dutcher, we understand, is critically ill at his home in 
Viainfield, N. J. We hope he will be spared to continue his great 
work for the protection of birds. 
Lately we read in a newspaper that the father of Dr. Jon. Dwight, 
Jr., died at the ripe old age of eighty years. We extend our heart- 
felt sympathy to the Doctor in his bereavement. 
W. Lee Chambers has moved from Santa Monica to Los Angeles. 
Bradshaw HW. Swales spent the beginning of the new year in the 
Hast. 
Dr. Louis B. Bishop has been spending the winter in northern 
Africa, at Biskra, Algiers, studying the birds and mammals of the 
northern Sahara. Decidedly “dry” territory! 
Prof. Wilfred Osgood, our new member, is in Venezuela collect- 
ing for the Columbia Field Museum of Chicago. 
We welcome Dr. Howard W. Jones, of Circleville, Ohio, one of the 
famous “old timers” of Ohio in Ornithology, in our midst. 
Mr. John Lewis Childs of Floral Park, N. Y., has sent us the 
