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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 

 FALL 1920 



Published by the 



ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 

 For the Conservation of Bird-Life 



COMMITTEE 

 ON PUBLICATION 



JESSE LOWE SMITH, Chairman 

 Highland Park 



RUTHVEN DEANE 

 112 W. Adams St., Chicago 



MARY DRUMMOND 

 Lake Forest 



BERTHA T. PATTEE 

 Evanston 



CATHERINE MITCHELL 

 Riverside 



ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ 

 10 So. La Salle Street, Chicago 



FREDERICK H. PATTEE 

 626 S. Clark St., Chicago 



Editorial 



By a bare margin of a day or so 

 the title of this— the Fall Bulletin- 

 becomes retrospective, since the first 

 day of Winter, by the calendar, finds 

 the Bulletin going /through the 

 press. In point of time of emergence 

 from the mails it will be a Christmas 

 number, and the delay which has 

 brought this about permits the Pres- 

 ident and Directors of the Illinois 

 Audubon Society to extend the greet- 

 ings of the season to all their associates 

 of the Society and to all others of 

 kindred spirit who may see these 

 pages. It is hoped that all thus in- 

 cluded will extend their greetings to 

 all those for whom Audubon Societies 

 exist — to the various seed-eaters, 

 bark-explorers, winter wardens of 

 field and hedge-row, orchard and 

 forest, those that haunt hollow trees 

 and sit warming their five wits of 

 wintry nights. We trust there will 

 be good cheer to last through the 

 wintry season — suet and nuts and 

 table scraps, seeds of hemp and sun- 

 flower seeds, brush piles and fodder 

 shocks for refuge when the snow ed- 

 dies across the fields, and friendly 

 clearings trampled daily where offer- 

 ings of scattered grains are to be had. 

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The revised library list appearing 

 elsewhere suggests how richly one 

 may supplement the seemingly frugal 

 offering of bird life which Winter 

 brings one in these northern latitudes. 

 Indeed as one re-reads one's copy of 

 Bayne's "Wild Bird Guests," the zest 

 to play the part of host makes one 

 almost believe winter has charms and 

 opportunities for the bird lover that 

 Summer does not possess. Read Mr. 

 Bayne's chapter on "Entertainment of 

 Birds in Winter" and then admit that 

 one great winter sport is open to most 

 of us even if we can not go far afield. 

 Chapman's book for youthful readers, 

 entitled "Winter Birds," tells in an en- 

 tertaining way most of what is known 

 about how birds pass the winter 

 months and how we can minister to 

 their welfare. There is no greater fun 

 than playing the role of good-fellow 

 to such piquant personalities as Chick- 

 a-dees and Nuthatches. 



For those who can lay aside books 

 and go afield in "winter and rough 

 weather," there is always a chance, at 

 least in northern Illinois, of meeting 

 an Evening Grosbeak, or a Red-poll, 

 or a Bohemian Waxwing, or a Purple 

 Finch, a Pine Siskin, a Cross-bill, an 

 Arctic Three-toed Woodpecker, a 

 Lapland Long-spur, a Snow Bunting, 

 or what you will. Perhaps on some 

 biting day in February the Horned 

 Larks will fly up about you as you 

 crunch your way over the glazed 

 crust of the meadow, and when you 

 halt on the sheltered side of the forest 

 and listen intently, there will be the 

 tiny lisping of Golden - Crowned 

 Kinglets preliminary to the emergence 

 of the flock which has come to ex- 

 plore the hazel clump on the clearing's 

 edge. It is worth trying. 

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This is the "open season" for Con- 

 gressman and Members of the Illinois 

 General Assembly. Let us each im- 

 prove it. Our Congressman are to be 

 asked to defend staunchly a program 

 for placing the National Parks for- 

 ever out of the reach of designing 

 private interests. This matter has 

 been vigorously presented in another 

 column. Our Illinois legislators will 

 be^ called upon to approve a compre- 

 hensive system of state parks and 

 inaugurate a plan for re-foresting cer- 

 tain areas in Illinois. These are Au- 

 dubon measures. 



