28 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



JOLIET: Since the first of March the colored lantern slides of the 

 Illinois Audubon Society have made three visits to Joliet, being used in the 

 schools and at nature study clubs during a total period of two weeks. If 

 the demand for bird talks and pictures is an indication, Joliet should be one 

 of the banner cities in Illinois for general knowledge of bird life. Presi- 

 dent O. M. Schantz of the Illinois Audubon Society lectured on bird life 

 before the Science Club of Joliet on the evening of March 23. The ac- 

 tivity and intelligent guidance of City Superintendent R. O. Stoops and his 

 assistants is shown in the increased interest in bird study from year to year. 



LAGRANGE : For years bird study has been popular with both old 

 and young at Lagrange. It is this city that has had "bird breakfasts" dur- 

 ing migration time, when groups of enthusiasts, early a-field, finish their 

 morning survey with a breakfast at the home of one of the members of the 

 Club. Superintendent F. E. Sanford of the public schools has been in- 

 fluential in awakening interest not only at Lagrange but among other 

 suburban towns of the Chicago region. A seventh grade class of the La- 

 grange schools, Miss Esther Craigmile, leader, won the first prize in the 

 state-wide Junior Audubon contest last year. This is spoken of in the 

 Secretary's report elsewhere in this Bulletin. The sixth and seventh grade 

 classes in the schools have Audubon clubs with their own officers, hold 

 monthly meetings, and prepare and conduct their own programs. A 

 Mothers' Bird Club under Miss Kavanagh's leadership is co-operating well 

 with the children's clubs at the schools. 



MOLINE : Look under the heading, "Rock Island and Moline." 



QUINCY: Interest in bird life in Quincy has been greatly stimulated 

 through the columns of the local press. The Quincy Journal has been 

 printing daily articles, popular in style, containing notes on migration and 

 interesting facts in general about bird life. These articles have been fur- 

 nished by Mr. T. E. Musselman, Secretary of the Gem City Business Col- 

 lege. The special note of emphasis has been bird protection. 



ROCKFORD : The Nature Study Society of Rockford has been in 

 existence for five years and among its other activities has an organized bird 

 club. A list of migration dates has been completed of the movements of the 

 avifauna locally and this list is constantly added to and will be ready for 

 publication within the next year or two. The list now contains the names 

 of 265 species in this vicinity but data on many of these is still incomplete. 

 Some excellent notes from this club are printed elsewhere under the head 

 of Census and Migration Records. Mr. Paul B. Riis, Superintendent of 

 Parks, is president of the Nature Study Society. 



On Mr. Riis' personal petition, the Board of Directors of the West 

 Side Cemetery have recently appropriated $150.00 for this year to make a 

 bird sanctuary out of their beautiful fifty acre cemetery. It has many fine 

 evergreens fully grown and is ideal as a bird refuge. Seventy-five Von 

 Berlepsch boxes have been set up there, and feeding stations, drinking 

 fountains, and other paraphernalia w T ill be added as fast as the plans can 

 be matured. The 250 acres of public parks in Rockford under Mr. Riis' 

 supervision are already bird sanctuaries. Steps have been taken to secure 

 action looking to that end from the country club and from the cemeteries 



