30 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



Lake Forest 



Reverend George Roberts reports under date of April 2, from 

 Lake Forest: 



My work with the birds has amounted to nearly nothing 

 this winter and spring since there were not many here. The 

 following dates may be of value merely to check up with others : 



Robins, first seen March 3rd, (none here this winter) ; Blue- 

 birds, the same date; Grackles reported March 10th (?), seen 

 by me the 13th ; Mourning Dove, the 28th ; Juncos returned also 

 on the 28th; Purple Finches here from March 16th to at least 

 the 25th. 



Myrtle Warblers common around the house through October 

 18th; Golden-crowned Kinglets first seen October 17th; Chick- 

 adees first seen November 7th and a few were here all winter, 

 and almost the only bird I had around my place ; saw one White- 

 throat on November 8th; Purple Finches in a small flock the 

 first two weeks in November. 



I missed the Bohemian Waxwings by being out of town. 

 Have killed 71 English Sparrows since the middle of September 

 but still have a few around. 



Moline 



Mr. A. E. Hammerstrom has been using the Illinois Audu- 

 bon Society's slides to good advantage in Moline and vicinity. 

 He gave illustrated talks before the boys' department of the 

 Y. M. C. A., at the opening of a bird house building contest. 

 One evening he spoke before a newsboys' club. A whole aft- 

 ernoon was spent talking to one thousand school schildren who 

 came in relays to the hall in which the pictures were shown. 

 That evening he talked to one hundred boy scouts in East 

 Moline who were preparing to take their examination in bird 

 study. 



A week later Mr. Hammerstrom lectured at Hampton in 

 the community hall, his very appreciative audience being 

 made up of representatives of the farming community and of 

 seventy members of the Black Hawk Hiking Club of Moline 

 who had walked into Hampton to eat a chicken supper at the 

 Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church and attend the lecture. 



Morns 



A Junior Audubon Society has been organized at Morris, 

 Illinois, composed of a live group of sixth grade girls. They 

 have been going on hikes to identify as many birds as possible 

 and are very enthusiastic about their work. They have a 

 lesson study around the camp-fire. Their first subject was 

 the Robin, and they are taking up the other members of the 

 Thrush family. 



