28 THE AUDUBON BU La bel 
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 McIlwain describes the Monks 
Mound Area and Jesse L. Smith the Effingham area. The middle 
