8 THE AUDU BON 78 UGISE Tits 

and their priceless aid in caring for and disseminating knowledge of 
the birds. 
The Directors of the Illinois Audubon Society, after hearing of the 
plan for a Ridgway Memorial, decided to aid the movement by having 
a motion picture made at the Ridgway home, Larchmound, and at 
Bird Haven, showing the bird life at both places, and including in the 
picture the activities of Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway in their daily service 
to the bird life of Illinois. 
Arrangements were made with the famous naturalist-photographer, 
Norman McClintock, of the University of Pittsburgh, to make the film. 
On the third of June Mr. McClintock reached Olney, and on the fourth 
of June, Mr. Ruthven Deane, for more than 50 years an intimate friend 
and correspondent of Mr. Ridgway, and the President of the Illinois 
Audubon Society, Mr. Schantz, joined Mr. McClintock. 
Mr. Ridgway and Mr. 
Deane had not seen each 
other for forty years, and 
it may easily be imagined 
that there was much to 
talk about. With a_back- 
ground of wonderful 
bloom of roses and flower- 
ing shrubs, the picture 
man with his Akely ma- 
chine began the task of 
filming the birds, Mr. and 
Mrs. Ridgway, and Mr. 
Deane, as they wandered 
about the place among 
the wonderful plant life that with loving care Robert Ridgway has 
brought toa perfection and beauty difficult to find elsewhere. 
Mr. Ridgway’s wide knowledge and his long connection with the 
U.S. Museum has enabled him to select plant life that would thrive at 
Larchmound and Bird Haven, so that he has on his sanctuaries a 
marvelous collection of both native and introduced plants, which have 
under the wizardry of his understanding of their requirements, become 
a part of the famous arboretum at Olney. It is planned that in the 
Autumn the film will be available for use, and through this film thousands 
of bird lovers will have an opportunity to see on the screen the wonders 
of Larchmound and Bird Haven with Mr. and Mrs. Ridgway minister- 
ing to the needs of the birds. Southern forms of many birds meet their 
northern relatives at the Ridgway bird tables and partake of the 
bounteous repasts of ground raw peanuts, sunflower seed and corn that 
are constantly spread for them. No birds are forgotten and a special 
suet post has been prepared for the woodpeckers. 

