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CONSERVATION ACTION BULLETIN 
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Here is the latest on some bills in Congress which our Chapters and Affiliates 
should be kept informed about: 
Endangered Species-Alligator Bali 
Good news! The House has passed its CU eee. el 56 3. 
mepes  tosfinish work on this bill or a Similar measure 
The Senate Commerce Comm, 
by the first week of August 
and get it passed by the Senate before the Congressional recess begins August 13, 
Whatever emerges from the Commerce Committee will probably be very similar to the 
House bill, but hopefully somewhat stronger, Although the outlook for passage in the 
Senate seems to be good, there is always a possibility of last-minute opposition | 
defeating the bill as happened last year. Conservationists should write to their 
own Senators and urge them to Support the Endangered Species bill when it comes up 
on the floor. Senate bill numbers are: S, 335 (Yarborough), S. 671 (Metcalf) and 
S. 1280 (Magnuson. ) 
Water Pollution Control 
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The Senate Public Works Committee has just completed work on S, 7 and will report 
it out within the next two weeks, Their bill is stronger than the House version 
and includes a requirement that atomic energy plants obtain certification from 
the states that the planned facility will not cause pollution. Write and urge 
your Senator to support this bill when it comes up on the floor. 
DS IN THE NEWS 
Mdstock birders are grateful to contractor, Ed Jackson who delayed a construction job 
cil a colony of bank swallows was through nesting. The birds excavated over 100 holes 
a sandy bank when a small hill was partially bulldozed away. 
MOLIATION - ARIZONA STYLE - The habitat of millions of doves, quails, waterfowl and deer 
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-1 be destroyed along a 280-mile length of the Colorado River when the Bureau of Recla- 
sion clears the thickets and Straightens the channel, The plan is part of the Central 
-2ona Project to bring water to Tucson and Phoenix. The rare Yuma Clapper Rail may be- 
le extinct as a result; 
at least a dozen more Endangered Species will be pushed closer 
extinction. 
‘idents of metropolitan New York, Long Island, and Connecticut have a new bird to add to 
iy checklists. The western house finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) has taken up residence 
‘the area and is extending its range. The bird was introduced in the area in 1940, 
i; some pet shop owners discovered that the birds were being caged illegally and released 
ie on Long Island. 
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house finch resembles an English sparrow; however, the male has a raspberry red crown, 
loat and rump, somewhat like a purple finch. The house finches are competing well for 
sting spots and space at the feeder with the prolific English sparrow. They do not 
irate, 
July 7, the New York Times carried a front page story on whether the Trail's flycatcher 
luld be separated into two Species. Dr. Leon Gorski has traveled 30,000 miles and spent 
lee years studying the birds in their summer territory in Connecticut and in their winter- 
l ranges in Peru and Panama. 

| Gorski believes that there are two distinct species; and he cites this evidence: calls 
Ind different and analysis of "voice prints" show actual differences; differences in 
struction of nests; one group winters in Panama, the other in Peru; one nests in swamps, 
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Other group chooses drier areas, 


