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While more people are now submitting field notes I would still like to 
urge more members to submit their sightings. Please send your contribu- 
tions — in field list order — directly to me at Route 1, Box 112, East Moline, 
IJlinois 61244. 
At the present time, we are only printing unusual dates, abundance, 
and scarcity data on the bird records accepted. In the future, as we go 
into seasonal fluctuations, we will change our format to include 
these fluctuations. -—Elton Fawks. 
MARCH, 1967 
Glaucous gull — One immature at Evanston, March 22. Kim R. Eckert. 
APRIL, 1967 
Whistling swan — Two at Harland, April 10-13. Four at Yorkville, April 29. 
McHenry County Chapter, IAS. 
Pigeon hawk — Found at Grand Marais Park, April 16. Richard Anderson. 
American golden plover — Huntley, April 15. McHenry County Chapter, 
IAS. 
Willet — East St. Louis. Anderson. 
Hudsonian godwit — East St. Louis. Anderson. 
MAY, 1967 
Great blue heron — Rookery southeast of McHenry. Established about 11 
years ago, beginning with one pair. On May 3 we counted 
74 birds, 30 nests. Four broken eggs found on ground and one 
broken nest. Hartland. One pair nested four years. McHenry 
Chapter, IAS. 
Cattle egret — Thirty-five in St. Louis area. Many nesting. Anderson. 
Canada gocse — Two to four seen at Woodstock all through May. Pair 
nested at Wolf Lake and raised four young. McHenry Chapter, 
IAS. | 
Shoveller — Hartland, May 25, 26 & 30 through June 4. McHenry Chapter, ~ 
IAS. 
Mississippi kite — Indiana Dunes, May 28. Catherine Schaffer, Ira Sanders 
& Bedford Brown. 
Black-bellied plover — About 75 seen at Huntley on May 25. Two hundred 
seen on May 26. McHenry Chapter, IAS. 
Wilson’s phalarope — Five females. Huntley. May 20. McHenry Chapter, 
IAS. 
Scissor-tailed flycatcher — Seen by nine observers near St. Louis on May 
20. Anderson. 
