16 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 



FALL, 1923 



Published By 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 CATHARINE A. MITCHELL, Riverside 



MARY DRUMMOND, Lake Forest ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ, 10 S. La Salle 



BERTHA T. PATTEE, Evanston St., Chicago 



FREDERICK H. PATTEE, 626 S. Clark St., Chicago 



Local Secretaries 



BELVIDERE — Miss Muriel Lampert, 410 E. NORMAL — Miss Mary Jean Patterson, 111., S. 



Lincoln Avenue N. U. 



CARBONDALE— Miss Mary M. Steagall, 808 ODIN— C. B. Vandercook 



Illinois Avenue OLNEY — Mrs. Robert Ridgway, 1030 S. Mor- 



CARLYLE — H. C. Norcross gan Street 



CARTHAGE— Alice L. Kibbe PHILO— Isaac E. Hess 



CHAMPAIGN— W. Elmer Ekblaw, 601 N. Wil- PORT BYRON— J. J. Schafer 



lis Avenue QUINCY — T. E. Musselman, Gem City Busi- 



DECATUR — Mrs. Benjamin Bachrach, 1437 W. ness College 



Main Street RIVER FOREST — Miss Esther A. Craigmile 



DE KALB — Jessie R. Mann, 336 Augusta Ave. ROCKFORD— Paul B. Riis, 301 Shaw Street 



ELGIN — Miss Lillian Smith, Douglas Avenue ROCK ISLAND — Miss Nellie E. Peetz, 528 18th 



EVANSTON — Miss Louise Whitehead, 1745 Or- Street 



rington Avenue SALEM — Mrs. Sig Kaufman, 524 N. Broadway 



GOLCONDA— Mrs. Lillian B. Phelps SHELBYVILLE— Mrs. Howard J. Hamlin 



HARRISBURG— Clarence Bonnell SULLIVAN— Mrs. O. L. Todd, 606 S. Washing- 



KEWANEE — Dr. Hattie Melaik, Quinn Block ton Street 



LAKE FOREST— Rev. George Roberts WATERLOO— Armin Hartman 



MACKINAW— Miss Mae Blair WAUKEGAN— Mrs. Elam H. Clarke, 740 N. 



MAYWOOD — Sec. of the Maywood Bird Club Sheridan Road 



EDITORIAL 



OWING to stress of other work, the real editor has been obliged to turn 

 I this number of the Bulletin over to understudies. Your kindly toler- 

 ance is therefore asked for whatever defects you may find, and for the 

 lack of finished editorial judgment that has made the previous Bulletins so read- 

 able and so successful in presenting a varied program of bird news to our readers. 



The present number of the Bulletin contains several articles of note, which 

 we feel are of great value, as they give first-hand information as to progress in 

 bird conservation, by men whose business it is to keep in touch with everything 

 that concerns our bird life, for or against. 



Mr. Pearson's resume of the European situation is a revelation of the need 

 of further international conferences and cooperation. 



Mr. Lincoln's article on "The Ducks of the Illinois River Marshes," is a 

 valuable contribution to ornithology. It brings out the tremendous importance 

 of the State of Illinois in relation to waterfowl, and the necessity of preserving 

 the breeding places, which are later told about in Mr. Riis' article on drainage of 

 the Upper Mississippi bottoms. Bird banding as a scientific occupation and 

 pleasant pastime is rapidly gaining many enthusiastic supporters. Mr. Lyon 

 tells of its success and how the difficulties in devising traps to catch the tree- 

 climbing birds have been overcome. Mr. Ridgway's introduction to the " Birds 

 of Illinois," which we are taking the liberty of reprinting, gives a vivid picture 

 of the bird life on the Illinois prairies fifty years ago. 



