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THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
SPRING 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 
MARY DRUMMOND 
Lake Forest 
BERTHA T. PATTEE 
Evanston 
CATHARINE A. MITCHELL 
Riverside 
ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ 
10 So. La Salle St., Chicago 
FREDERICK H. PATTEE 
626 So. Clark St., Chicago 
LOCAL SECRETARIES 
BRELVIDERE 
Miss Muriel 
Avenue 
CARBONDALE 
Miss Mary M. 
Avenue 
CARLYLE 
H. C. Norcross 
CARTHAGE 
Alice L. Kibbe 
CHAMPAIGN 
W. Elmer Ekblaw, 601 N. Willis Avenue 
DECATUR 
Mrs. Benjamin Bachrach, 1437 W. Main 
Street 
DE KALB 
Jessie R. Mann, 336 Augusta Avenue 
ELGIN 
Miss Lillian Smith, Douglas Avenue 
EVANSTON 
Miss Louise Whitehead, 
Avenue 
GOLCONDA 
Mrs. Lillian B. Phelps 
HARRISBURG 
Clarence Bonnell 
KEWANEE 
Dr. Hattie Melaik, Quinn Block 
LAKE FOREST 
Rev: George Roberts 
MACKINAW 
Miss Mae Blair 
MAYWOOD 
Secretary of the Maywood Bird Club 
NORMAL 
ae Mary Jean Patterson, Ill., S. N. U. 
Lampert, 410 E. Lincoln 
Steagall, 808 (llinois 
1745 Orrington 
C. B. Vandercook 
EY 
Mrs. Robert Ridgway, 1030 So. Morgan 
PHILO 
Isaac E. Hess 
PORT BYRON 
J. J. Schafer 
QUINCY 
T. E. Musselmann, 
College 
RIVER FOREST 
Miss Esther A. Craigmile 
ROCKFORD 
Paul B. Riis, 301 Shaw Street 
ROCK ISLAND 
Miss Nellie E. Peetz, 528 18th Street 
SALEM 
Mrs. Sig Kaufman, 524 N. Broadway 
SHELBY VILLE 
Mrs. Howard J. Hamlin 
SULLIVAN 
Mrs. O. L. Todd, 606 So. 
Street 
WATERLOO 
Armin Hartman 
WAUKEGAN 
Mrs. Elam H. Clarke, 740 N. Sheridan 
Road 
Gem City Business 
Washington 
Editorial 
The tardy appearance of this 
number of the Bulletin finds the 
tide of migration spent and the 
nesting affairs absorbing the time 
and interest of most of the 
feathered residents of Illinois. This 
is the time when painstaking ob- 
server can do his bit to add to the 
sum total of useful knowledge of 
his bird neighbors. It is the time 
to suppress the cat and to promote 
infant mortality among the house 
sparrow. It is a good time to under- 
take special problems for investi- 
gation. In a given area, what per- 
centage of the nestlings of each 
species matures to successful flight? 
What per cent cf the Blue Jays 
are law abiding? Is this species 
decreasing in the area? What 
species of birds in the area are 
imposed upon by the cowbird’s 
depredations? There is always a 
place in the Bulletin for reports 
of such inquiries. 
The legislature lingers in session 
as the Bulletin goes into the mails. 
What is to happen to the Wild 
Flower Preservation Society’s bill 
to protect certain flowers? What 
about the Forestry Bill which looks 
to a future with waste lands once 
more covered with magnificent 
forests? What of the State Parks 
Bill so patiently promoted by un- 
selfish lovers of the native beauty 
of our state? Let us question our 
friends in the legislature and move 
them to friendly action. 
