Pee AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
PImoteNGOrlese A UD UB ON SO Cl ET Y: 
ROOSEVELT ROAD AND LAKE SHORE DRIVE, CHICAGO 5, ILL. 
Number 101 March, 1957 
The Annual Meeting 
By Mrs. BERTHA HUXFORD 
ALTHOUGH THE ANNUAL MEETING of the Illinois Audubon Society does not 
come until May 18-19 this year, it is not too early to mark this week-end on 
your calendar. The most important way to make this wonderful 3rd Satur- 
day and Sunday in May a memorable time is for all members and affiliates 
to come to Rockford and share in this meeting, sponsored by the North 
Central Illinois Ornithological Society. 
The President of this Society, Mr. David L. Burdick, is appointing com- 
mittees to collaborate with the educational committee of I.A.S. in planning 
an outstanding Saturday program and Sunday field trips. One of the in- 
teresting subjects to be discussed Saturday afternoon is whether members 
of J.A.S. would be interested in participating in a breeding bird census. We 
hope that many members will take an active part in this discussion. Indeed 
a really good turn-out of all members to our annual meeting at Rockford 
will be a great encouragement to the officers and board members of I.A.S., 
who carry much of the responsibility of the organization. 
Detailed information concerning registration, annual dinner and accom- 
modations will be included with the formal invitations to all members and 
affiliates. Interested friends are always welcome. Plan now to come to the 
1957 annual meeting of I.A.S. at Rockford, Ill. May 18 and 19. 
—8027 Thayer Street, Evanston, Ill. 
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An Additional Holboell’s Grebe Specimen From Illinois 
By RALPH M. EISEMAN 
THE HOLBOELL’S GREBE, Podiceps grisegena holbolli, is an uncommon tran- 
sient in the Lake Michigan area and is a rare migrant farther south in 
Illinois (Smith and Parmalee, A Distributional Check List of the Birds of 
Illinois, 1955, p. 8). A specimen, number Z 1961, in the University of Illinois 
zoological collection, provides an additional record for Central Illinois and 
is the first record for Champaign County. 
This specimen was collected at Urbana, Illinois, on February 21, 1904, by 
Frank Smith, late professor of zoology at the University of Illinois, Urbana. 
It is labeled an immature male and is in winter plumage. It measures as 
follows: wing, 7.5; exposed culmen, 2.25; tarsus, 2.5 inches. The identifica- 
tion was checked by comparing it with specimens in the Chicago Natural 
History Museum. 
—7928 Colfax Avenue, Chicago 17, Illinois 
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