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as can be. It does not nest here and is rare even as a migrant. Occa- 

 sionally, however, many are seen at once, as on last September 28th, 

 when Mr. K. W. Kallmann saw a flock of fifty or more mingling 

 their graceful circles of flight in a bewildering way. One was taken 

 and thus identified. Mr. Kallmann, who gets many hawks, etc., to 

 mount, states he does not recollect ever having received one of these 

 voyagers from the Northwest before. 



Finally, on last Thanksgiving Day, several hunters secured several 

 young King Eiders from a flock of several dozen, flying over the lake 

 off the Municipal Pier. Probably these and similar birds from the 

 north would be oftener seen if observers were out on the lake during 

 the stormy days of late fall. 



From this it can be seen that w r e must not be keen and alert in 

 watching for birds in spring only, but in winter. Any day and any 

 tree or shrub in winter may bring or harbor a rare visitor from the 

 far north, and perhaps one not heretofore recorded from here. 



C. W. G. Eifrig, River Forest. 



Bird Conservation in the Sanitary District of Chicago 



The Board of Directors of the Illinois Audubon Society at the 

 regular meeting for march instructed President Schantz to address a 

 letter to the President and each of the members of the Board of 

 Trustees of the Sanitary District of Chicago calling attention to the 

 possibilities for conservation of bird life within certain areas under 

 the control of the Sanitary District. The map which is reproduced 

 herewith, together with a copy of the letter, shows the Forest Preserve 

 District of Cook County and the drainage channels of the Sanitary 

 District. 



The North Shore Channel referred to in the letter begins at Wil- 

 mette on Lake Michigan. Its right of way, 660 feet wide, extends 

 to Lawrence Avenue, a distance of eight and one-third miles, where 

 the channel discharges into the North Branch of the Chicago River. 

 The District owns a twenty-acre park of "made land" at the YVilmette 

 end, and it has been computed that along the channel there are 500 

 acres more of land thus owned available for park purposes. An asso- 

 ciation of north shore citi- 

 zens was formed four years 

 ago to try to influence the 

 trustees of the District to 

 create a park of this land 

 but the movement has not 

 as yet met with success. 



The main channel of 

 the Drainage Canal extends 

 from the intersection of 

 Robey Street and the Chi- 

 cago River to Joliet, a dis- 

 tance of 39 miles. The Calu- 

 met-Sag Channel referred Phot0 by Geo - D - Fuller 



+ _ - ?l„ i a • j A ROCK- WALLED GLEX IN THE CALUMET-SAC 



to in the letter is under region 



