Heli Ae UD GLB O N= B: Oh Eels: Bo eis II 

hidden in the folds of a 
weather-beaten cotton 
undershirt, which had been 
hung out and forgotten. 
Along the automobile 
highway, which ran parallel 
to the main line of the 
Burlington Railway, the 
young men who were sur- 
veying for the new Govern- 
ment highway which is to 
connect the Arsenal at Rock 
Island with the proving 
grounds at Savannah, dis- 
covered in the top of a cedar 
fence post a bird’s nest which 
they were unable toidentify. — 
Seeing the “Bird Lady” Nestinc Sire or House WrEN 
drive by they hailed her 
and showed her the nest of a chickadee about eight inches below the 
top of the decayed center of the post. Not only is the Savannah region 
noted for its bird life, but its plant life is equally fascinating, being quite 
different from that of the glaciated areas adjoining it, and containing 
many species that are rarely found so far south. During the same outing 
the writer spent a couple of days in the far-famed Apple River Canyon in 
Joe Davies County, Ill., where were found pink May apple blossoms, a 
tiny northern pink primrose, several hundred miles south of its normal 
habitat, a colony of the rare Fee’s Lip fern, and an ugly sluggish rattler, 
who, after being tethered, would obligingly rattle when poked with a 
stick. 
Savannah is located at the lower end of the Mississippi River wild 
life sanctuary, and during the writer’s visit it was reported that over 
eight hundred acres had been favorably passed upon for purchase. 
Farther north, in lowa, at 
MacGregor, the Session of 
the Wild Life School convenes 
in August of each year, to 
which come in_ increasing 
numbers nature lovers from 
the surrounding regions of 
the adjoining states. This 
interesting vacation school 
should appeal to naturalists 
from nearby Illinois. 
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