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heron, a stray owl, the gorgeous 
cardinal and scarlet tanager, the 
Baltimore oriole, woodpeckers, 
and swarms of warblers. 
In this immediate vicinity is 
an orchard of old hawthorns, 
whose gnarled trunks support a 
canopy of interlaced branches so 
dense that scarcely anything 
grows beneath them. And here 
the warblers each year find a 
bountiful supply of plant lice— 
aphis. In one _ widespreading 
hawthorn ten varieties of warb- 
lers were noted, some varieties 
numbering many individuals, and 
the warblers seemed almost as 
plentiful as the pollinating bees 
whose low hum might be plainly 
distinguished. 
Sunday: morning the writer 
' made an early pilgrimage to the 
same region and in the two days 

WARBLER COUNTRY 
the total identifications to his credit were 65. The Saturday group had 
over 70, and were only out about three hours. Blackpolls, baybreasted 
and the prothonotary, were among the more rare warblers. 
As the woods were too wet for a picnic lunch, the party returned to the 
home of Miss Catharine Mitchell in Riverside, where coftee was served 
and notes were compared while eating. 

Mup Lake 
Those who attended the outing 
were delighted with the “rainy 
day”’ excursion, and voiced their 
sorrow for those who were fright- 
ened by the rain. 
There are many delightful bits 
of woodland in the Chicago region 
but none where,insosmallan area, 
may be found more attractions 
for the different types of bird life, 
or more individuals at the mid- 
May migration time. 
OrpHEUS MOYER SCHANTZ. 
