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NATURE PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION — 1965 
AGAIN ALL MEMBERS and 
friends of the Illinois Audubon 
Society are invited to participate 
in the TWENTIETH ANNUAL 
Chicago International Exhibition 
of Nature Photography. This, the 
oldest (and largest) nature photo- 
graphy exhibition in the world. 
is sponsored by the Nature Cam- 
era Club of Chicago and the Chi- 
cago Natural History Museum. 
The accompanying illustration is 
one of the accepted prints from 
a previous exhibition. 
The deadline is January 18, 
1965. Accepted prints will be on 
display from February 1 through 
21 in. the main hall of the 
museum; accepted slides will be 
projected in the James Simpson 
Theater (where our Audubon 
Wildlife Films are shown) on two 
Sundays — February 7 and 14, 
at 2:30 p.m. Original color slides 
and prints of all types of natural 
subjects — birds, mammals, in- 
sects, wildflowers, geology, weather phenomena, nature patterns, seascapes 
and landscapes — are eligible for entry. To obtain entry blanks, write to 
Paul H. Lobik, 22W681 Tamarack Drive, Glen Ellyn, Illinois 60137. 
Evening Grosbeak . By Leslie Campbell 
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BROWN CREEPER IN ILLINOIS 
By Ronald M. Case 
During the summer of 1963. I conducted a breeding-bird census at Robert 
W. Allerton Park, which is located four and one-half miles southwest of 
Monticello, Piatt County, Illinois. A portion of this census was conducted 
in a flood plain forest habitat. The major trees in this area were silver 
maple, hickory, sycamore and several species of oak. The Sangamon river 
runs through the area. 
A Brown Creeper (Certhia familiaris) was observed throughout the 
summer in the flood plain forest. The Brown Creeper is normally a migrant 
in Illinois. with its usual breeding range in southern Canada and the north- 
ern United States. Smith and Parmalee (1955) do not list any summer 
records for the Brown Creeper in “A Distributional Check List of the Birds 
of Illinois.” This species was heard singing on numerous occasions. Sight 
records were made of one individual on the following dates: 3 June, 12 
June, 15 June, 19 June, 14 July, and the last date the bird was seen was 
