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The bill provides that the Secretary of Agriculture shall be 

 chairman of the Commission, and that other members shall be 

 the Attorney General, the Postmaster General, and two mem- 

 bers of each House of Congress. Rules and regulations gov- 

 erning the administration of the proposed refuges would be 

 placed in the hands of the Secretary of Agriculture. The pro- 

 posed measure does not in any way obviate the necessity of 

 procuring a State hunting license. The National Association 

 of Audubon Societies favors this act, believing it will exert a 

 vast influence on the protection of Wild Life. T. Gilbert 

 Pearson, President, has sent out a call for funds to finance the 

 work of the Association in favor of this bill at Washington. 



The Check List 



The proposed pocket check list of birds of Illinois which 

 this Bulletin has been promising for two years is soon to be an 

 accomplished fact. Final proofs have been revised, page forms 

 have been made up, and we are promised that the completed list 

 will be in the bindery as this issue of the Bulletin reaches the 

 mails. 



For the convenience of the greatest number two different 

 lists have been prepared. One is a working list of the more 

 common birds and is similar to the wall list published by this 

 Society. The other is the comprehensive list and is as complete 

 as authoritative data at hand can make it. It represents the 

 original observations and research of Mr. Benjamin T. Gault, 

 the editor of the check list, generously supplemented by those of 

 Mr. Robert Ridgway and other ornithologists for whose services 

 credit appears on the pages of the check list. A key to birds 

 nests prepared by Dr. Arthur A. Allen of Cornell University, 

 is included. Mr. Ridgway furnishes the introduction and Mr. 

 Gault the foreword. A map of Illinois in color is included, this 

 showing the three faunal zones which overlap in Illinois. Blank 

 pages for notes are being bound within the same covers. A 

 circular giving additional information will shortly appear. Ad- 

 vance orders for the list should be sent to the Secretary of the 

 Society. 



State Parks Report 



The long delayed State Parks Report of the Friends of Our 

 Native Landscape is going through the Press as this number of 

 the Bulletin reaches the mails. It is a bulletin of nearly 100 

 pages, fully illustrated, and issued from the Alderbrook Press 

 of Chicago. It contains carefully prepared reports upon the 

 possibilities for state park purposes of certain strategic places 

 in the state. 



Professor H. C. Cowles writes of southern Illinois including 

 the Ozark Uplift. Miss Caroline Mcllwain describes the Monks 

 Mound Area and Jesse L. Smith the Effingham area. The middle 



