terete A Usb UabiOINS BOUL. E DN 5 
WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW — several of the gambelii subspecies have been 
banded during the winter by James Hanson of Barstow, III. 
Snow BUNTING two seen Jan. 22, 1962. Tri-Cities area. 
Route #1, Box 112, East Moline, IIl. 
By WILLIAM E. SOUTHERN 
HYBRID FLICKER (Colaptes cafer x C. auratus) in Northeastern Illinois. — 
Smith and Parmalee (A Distributional Check List of the Birds of Illinois, 
Ill. State Mus. Pop. Ser., Vol. 4:38. 1955) reported two banding records 
of hybrid flickers for northeastern Illinois. One of the records was from 
Lake County (August 8, 1934) and the other from Cook County (Septem- 
ber 22, 1940). To my knowledge there are no state records. for the Red- 
shafted Flicker (C. cafer). 
On September 30, 1961, a hybrid flicker was found near Lombard, DuPage 
County, Illinois, and taken to Richard Hoger at the Willowbrook Wildlife 
Haven at Glen Ellyn. Mr. Hoger turned the bird over to me for a specimen. 
The specimen (WES 964) was an adult female. The shafts and barbs 
of most of the remiges and of one retrix were pinkish. The remaining 
retrices and portions of some remiges were yellow. The plumage of this 
specimen probably represents that of a hybrid. However, the presence of 
yellow, as well as pink, in the shafts presents the possibility that the speci- 
men only represents a variation in the plumage of C. auratus. 
The apparent absence of Red-shafted Flickers from the state and the 
three fall records for hybrid flickers in the northeastern portion of Illinois 
suggest an occasional northward dispersal of flickers from the southwest 
in the fall. 
Dept. of Biological Sciences, Northern Illinois University, De Kalb, IIl. 
By Mrs. HArry C. SPITZER 
GREAT HoRNED OWL — on Jan. 11, 1962, at 10:15 a.m., we saw a huge bird 
land clumsily in a lilac bush 40 feet from our picture window. No bin- 
oculars were needed to see that it was a Great Horned Owl. He sat quietly 
in bright sunlight, slowly moving his head about, heedless of the juncoes, 
chickadees and sparrows who made a few passes at him. My son, Robert, 
and my friend, Mrs. Ross Norton, had a good look at the bird also. After 
about an hour, he slowly flapped to a tree about 200 feet away, and soon 
left the vicinity. On Jan. 12th we had a Brown-headed Cowbird at our win- 
dow sill feeder — rare for January, but not as rare as our owlish guest of 
the day before. Our home is about a mile north of Glenview and a mile 
east of the Naval Air Station. 
1776 Roger Avenue, Glenview, Il. 
NEW “FIELD NOTES” EDITOR 
RicHARD HoceErR, 28101 Park Blvd., Glen Ellyn, Ill., Manager of the Willow 
Brook Forest Preserve and Wildlife Shelter, has agreed to serve as Field 
Notes Editor of the Audubon Bulletin. Future reports of unusual or rare 
birds for your area should be sent to him at the above address. 
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