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CORNELL NEST-RECORD PROGRAM NEEDS INFORMATION 
The Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology is currently engaged in a study of the geographical variation in clutch 
size of the Eastern Phoebe, Barn Swallow and the Robin. If you have breeding information on any of these three species 
(either current or historical), please send the data to the lab at: 159 Sapsucker Woods Road, Ithaca, N.Y. 14850. The 
laboratory now has over 140,000 cards on file. Among the major contributors for 1970 is |AS‘s faithful Karl E. Bartel who 
sent in 152 cards. If you would like to participate in this program, you can write the lab for cards. 
In cooperation with the Massachusetts Audubon Society, the Cornell Lab has just set up a special long-term research fund 
to save our birds of prey through a program of captive propagation. The fund has been aptly titled ‘The Peregrine Fund’; 
and the Lab hopes to develop a reproducing population of captive falcons which may some day be re-introduced into areas 
where they have become extinct. The Lab is seeking $25,000, and recently sent a dozen inquiries to large corporations which 
annually spend thousands of dollars advertising their environmental concern. This solicitation produced not one response; and 
the Lab is requesting a federal grant. In the meantime it needs funds from individual contributors. Can you help? 
MORE SWALLOW DATA REQUESTED — Last month we published a request from Dr. Richard Graber of the 
Illinois Natural History Survey for information on the Swallow Family. As you will note above, Cornell 
University is also seeking nesting information on swallows, and now news reaches us of a nationwide study on the 
fluctuations of the purple martin population. Spearheading this survey, which is supposed to indicate significant 
environmental changes caused by pollution, is Dr. Jerome A. Jackson of Mississippi State University in Starkville. 
Dr. Jackson believes that the martin is particularly sensitive to air conditions and the abundance or lack of 
airborne insects; and he will mail questionnaires to birdwatchers who request them. The survey will continue over 
a period of years. 

NEW BOOK OFFERED — The Open Lands Project is offering a new book for conservationists, attorneys, local officials and 
property owners which explains the obstacles and opportunities for preserving open land amidst urban sprawl. The volume is 
titled: ““OPEN LAND in Urban Illinois” and is written by Rutherford Platt. Copies may be ordered from the Open Lands 
Project, 53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, I!linois 60604. Prices are: paperbound - $3.00, Hardcover - $7.50. Illinois residents 
should add 5 percent sales tax. 
WILDLIFE FILMS TO BE PRESENTED IN ELGIN 
Once again the Elgin Rotary Club and Elgin Community College will present the Audubon Wildlife Films. Season tickets 
to the 5 programs are $7.50 for adults ($2.00 single admission) and $5.00 for students ($1.50 single admission). The series is 
presented at the Hemmens Memorial Auditorium in Elgin and curtain time is 7:45 P.M. 
“Shikar in India’ John Moyer Tuesday, September 28 
“Filming in No-Man’s Land’ Sean Morris Tuesday, October 26 
‘Tidewater Trails’ Charles Hotchkiss Tuesday, November 30 
“‘A Naturalist Afield’’ Peter Maslowski Tuesday, January, 11 
‘‘Mule Deer Country”’ Buzz Moss Tuesday, February 29 


By subscribing to these fine films you help support scholarship activities at Elgin Community College. In addition, it is 
possible for the area school children to view a similar series without charge. 

