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Dec. 22, 162. Slate-colored Junco, 174, Dec. 22. Song Sparrow. Many 
more than usual. 
Cardinal. Steadily increasing. Dec. 22, 58. 
Carolina Wren. Dec. 30, 2. Less numerous than last winter. Winter 
Wren. None seen. Occasional winter. 
Brown Creeper. Very few, none recently. White-breasted Nuthatch. 
Slightly more numerous. 
Tufted Titmouse. As usual. Chickadee. As usual. 
Golden-crowned Kinglet. More numerous than usual. Appeared to 
suffer from blizzard. Dec. 22, 10. 
Robin. An individual appeared in the yard the day after the blizzard 
and was seen the two following days. 
CARBONDALE 
Two interesting news items came in from Carbondale. The Canada 
goose has been unusually abundant. Hunters have been eating goose 
much oftener than duck during the past few weeks. At the laboratory 
of the State Normal College at Carbondale few birds have been brought 
in this season but Miss Mary M. Steagall, Associate Professor of 
Biology, reports one notable specimen, a white swan with a wingspread 
of nearly eight feet. This had been caught in a steel trap. 
GLEN ELLYN 
From Glen Ellyn Mr. Benjamin T. Gault reports that the casual 
observer finds bird life less numerous than usual. Downies and hairy 
woodpeckers with a solitary redhead are to be seen. Quite unusual has 
been the lingering of a flicker through the winter. Two meadowlarks 
are also unusual members of the winter colony. Cardinals though few in 
number are occasionally seen. The prairie chicken regarded as having 
gone from this area is apparently represented by one or two specimens. 
HARRISBURG 
Miss Grace Collier reports on January 2 that owing to the deep snows 
and severe weather her data had to be collected along the hard roads, 
and at a feeding station in town. A representative count is as follows: 
Meadowlarks 12; Sparrow Hawks 3; Marsh Hawk 1; Bluebirds 2; 
Crows 8; Mourning Dove 1; Grackles 15; Juncos 5; Cardinal 2; Downy 
Woodpecker 5. Bluejays were conspicuous. The mocking bird was 
_ heard now and then and the Carolina wren often. In this county (Saline 
County) observers have been watching for the first appearance of the 
starling. This seems to have occurred in November last. A high school 
student at Harrisburg brought in a live specimen which he had found 
about daylight one morning with a piece of wrapping cord entangled 
about one wing by which it was caught in the twigs of a small tree. 
