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WHOOPING CRANE SIGHTED 
By Bernard C. Rosauer 
On April 26, 1965, I saw what appeared at first glance to be a small child 
standing on the shoreline of the three-acre pond at the back of our lot. 
[ looked through my fieldglasses and to my surprise saw a rare bird in- 
deed — a Whooping Crane! For three days it remained in the area; each 
morning it returned to feed along the edge of the pond. 
The area is assentially lowland and quite swampy, with two natural 
streams feeding the pond. Adjoining our property is a Wildlife Reserve 
with a natural lake of about 100 acres. This tract has been protected for 
the past eight years, and perhaps this has helped to attract such wild birds. 
Our lot is located just south of Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, and north of 
Richmond, Illinois. Incidentally, a pair of Whooping Cranes was seen at 
Richmond about four years ago. 
Oakhurst Terrace Farm, Thunderbird Road, Genoa City, Wisconsin 
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Uncommon Migrants in Illinois 
The Sycamore True Republican, published in DeKalb County, told of some 
unusual wildfowl in its April 14, 1965 issue. Mr. Orval Awe, county game 
warden, reported sighting the birds on a large pond along the Annic 
Glidden Road just south of the Frank Hunter farm and north of the old 
state road. 
Resting and feeding on the pond were 21 Whistling Swans, Canadian 
Geese, Coots, Wood Ducks, scaup ducks, Canvasbacks, Goldeneyes, and 
some gulls. Mr. Awe stated that this was the third time that flocks con- 
taining these species had stopped in DeKalb County on their way to the 
Yukon Valley in Alaska. One year the wildfowl rested near New Lebanon 
and another year they were seen near Sandwich, Illinois. The warden re- 
ported that the Whistling Swans remained on the pond about a week, 
serving to decoy in some other groups of geese and ducks that also remained 
for a few days before resuming their journey northward. 
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BOOK REVIEWS 
TALL TREES AND FAR HORIZONS. Adventures and Discoveries of Early 
Botanists in America, by Virginia S. Eifert. Dodd, Mead and Co., 432 
Park Avenue South, New York 16, New York. 301 plus xvii pages. With 
bibliography, index and 16 pages of photographs. 1965. $5.00. 
As the book subtitle states, it attempts to tell in a much too short 300 
pages the adventures and discoveries of early botanists in America. This 
is a companion to the author’s earlier book, “Men, Birds & Adventure,” 
and is the story of the many intrepid, inquisitive, restless men and women 
who found and named tens of thousands of plants and faced the hazards of 
hostile Indians, illness and climate to make their discoveries and studies of 
trees and plants in the new world. 
