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Magpie, Redpolls and Sandhill Cranes in the Palos Hills 
By WINSLOW M. SHAUGHNESSY, Ornithoilogist 
THE FOLLOWING INTERESTING bird observations were recorded in the area 
surrounding the Little Red Schoolhouse Nature Center in the Palos Hills 
of Cook County, Illinois: 
At 4:00 p.m. on October 28, 1959, at the intersection of Willow Springs 
Rd. (104th Ave.) and 95th St., Forest Preserve Naturalist Peter Dring and 
I observed a Magpie not 15 feet off the roadside. It was in the same area 
the following day, and was subsequently observed by several other com- 
petent birders. 
On November 38, 1959, a flock of approximately 35 Redpolls was observed 
near Long John Slough by Forest Preserve Naturalists Floyd Swink, Ray 
Schwarz, and Peter Dring. This is an early fall record for the Chicago area. 
A flock of approximately 20 Sandhill Cranes was observed flying S.E. 
over the Little Red Schoolhouse on November 6, 1959. Five Forest Preserve 
Naturalists heard the characteristic call notes and observed the flock. This 
is a very late record for the Sandhill Crane in the Chicago area. 
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Cook County Clean Streams Committee 
By JOHN D. YONDORF 
WITH THE COMING of the highly industrialized community to Cook County 
the streams which once had many types of fish and other wildiife are now 
almost barren. Scenic plants are destroyed by foul water and the people in 
boats can no longer enjoy the rivers. Ducks and other birds lose an impor- 
tant supply of food. 
In 1953 William N. Erickson, then President of the Board of Forest Pre- 
serve Commissioners, started the Clean Streams Committee. The Committee 
was divided into six parts: Upper Chicago, Lower Chicago, Upper Des 
Plaines, Lower Des Plaines-Salt Creek, Thorn Creek-Calumet, and Tinley 
Creek. 
Each sub-committee in its area was to find: (1) the degree of existing 
pollution; (2) the source of pollution; (3) who is responsible; (4) what 
law-enforcing bodies are responsible for correction of pollution conditions; 
(5) make recommendations and suggestions to the general committee as to 
how each of the problems can be corrected. 
The chairman or vice-chairman meets once each month with a secretary, 
legal advisor, and Forest Preserve District representative at the headquar- 
ters of the Forest Preserve District of Cook County, 536 North Harlem 
Avenue, River Forest, Illinois. Also at these meetings are members of the 
State Sanitary Water Board, Cook County Department of Public Health, 
Sanitary District of Chicago, and sometimes a representative of the state’s 
attorney. 
