Briefly, the bird count rules require that: (1) the count area must fill or 
fit within a 15-mile diameter circle; (2) the count may cover only one calen- 
dar day in the period from December 22 through January 1; (3) the count 
should cover dawn to dusk, or at least 8 daylight hours; (4) details of un- 
usual species or observations should be given, with names of observers; (5) 
census areas may not overlap, and established counts have priority; (6) 
deadline for returning forms is January 15, 1957. Detailed rules will be 
found in the December, 1954, issue of the Audubon Bulletin. 
As in previous years, the Chicago Ornithological Society invites birders 
from the Chicago area to take part in its Christmas Census at the Morton 
Arboretum on Sunday, December 30, 1956, beginning at 9 a.m. The Arbore- 
tum is on Illinois Highway 53, one mile north of Lisle, Illinois, about 25 
miles west of Chicago; the meeting place is the Administration Building 
parking lot, just inside the east entrance. Bring your lunch and binoculars, 
and dress warmly. 
Other Christmas Censuses are scheduled by the Evanston Bird Club, the 
Decatur Audubon Society, the Bureau Valley Audubon Club, the Ridgway 
Bird Club at Olney, the Springfield Bird Club, the Tri-City Bird Club, and 
the White Pines Bird Club. Please write to the officer listed on the back page 
of this Bulletin under ‘Affiliated Societies” if you would like to join one of 
these groups in your area. Good birding and a Merry Christmas to all of you! 
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Resolution No. 14 — PROTECTION OF HAWKS AND OWLS 
By ILLINOIS DIVISION, THE IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE 
Whereas, the Illinois Audubon Society has requested support of the Illinois 
Division of the Izaak Walton League in securing passage of legislation by 
the next General Assembly of the State of Illinois to protect all hawks and 
owls; 
And Whereas, the proposed legislation would reserve to land owners and/or 
tenants the right to destroy hawks or owls if actually causing damage on 
lands such persons own or occupy; 
And Whereas, all hawks or owls already are protected by Illinois law, with 
exception of the Great Horned Owl, Goshawk, Sharp-Shinned Hawk, and 
Cooper’s Hawk, but few persons can differentiate between these and pro- 
tected species, with result that many useful hawks and owls are mistakenly 
destroyed; 
And Whereas, even the four species above named undoubtedly do much good, 
through destroying rodents, thus to a degree offsetting their depredations; 
And Whereas, the Illinois Audubon Society has secured approval for the 
proposed hawk and owl legislation from such qualified persons as Dr. Ralph 
E. Yeatter and Dr. Harlow B. Mills of the Illinois Natural History Survey; 
Therefore: be it resolved by the Illinois Division of the Izaak Walton League 
of America, Inc., in annual convention assembled in Rockford, Ill. this 50th 
day of September, 1956, that — 
WE JOIN THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY IN PROMOTING THE PROPOSED STATE 
LEGISLATION HEREIN DESCRIBED. 
