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THE AUDUBON BU UE ii 
FALL, 
A hod 
Pus.isHeD By ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY 
For the Conservation of Bird Life 
ComMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION 
JESSE LOWE SMITH, Chairman, Highland Park 
RUTHVEN DEANE, 112 W. Adams St., 
MARY DRUMMOND, Lake Forest 
BERTHA T. PATTEE, Evanston 
Chicago 
CATHARINE A. MITCHELL, Riverside 
ORPHEUS M. SCHANTZ, 10 S. La Salle 
St., Chicago 
FREDERICK H. PATTEE, 626S. Clark St., Chicago 
Loca. SECRETARIES 
BELVIDERE—Miss Muriel Lampert, 
Lincoln Avenue 
CARBONDALE—Miss Mary M. Steagall, 808 
Illinois Avenue 
CARLYLE—H. C. Norcross 
CARTHAGE—Alice L. Kibbe 
CHAM PAIGN—W. Elmer Ekblaw, 601 N. Wil- 
lis Avenue 
DECATUR—Mrs. Benjamin Bachrach, 1437 W. 
Main Street 
DE KALB—Jessie R. Mann, 336 Augusta Ave. 
ELGIN—Miss Lillian Smith, Douglas Avenue 
EVANSTON—Miss Louise Whitehead, 1745 Or- 
rington Avenue 
GOLCONDA—Mrs. Lillian B. Phelps 
HARRISBURG—Clarence Bonnell 
KEWANEE—Dr. Hattie Melaik, Quinn Block 
LAKE FOREST—Rev. George Roberts 
MACKIN i 
MAYWOOD—Sec. of the Maywood Bird Club 
410 E. 

NORMAL— 
Ne Us : 
ODIN—C. B. Vandercook 
OLNEY—Mrs. Robert Ridgway, 1030 S. Mor- 
gan Street 
PHILO—Isaac E. Hess 
PORT BYRON-J. J. Schafer 
QUINCY—T. E. Musselman, Gem City Busi- 
ness 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. Pte or 
SHELBYVILL 
SULLIVAN—Mrs. O. qs Todd, 606 S. Washing: 
ton Street 
WATERLOO—Armin Hartman 
WAUKEGAN—Mrs. Elam H. Clarke, 740 N. 
Sheridan Road 
Miss Mary Jean Patterson, IIl., S. 


ED POR EA 
() si to stress of other work, the real editor has been obliged to turn 
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. 
