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Green-winged teal—Waukegan. January 28th. Lewis Cooper. 
Bufflehead—Hutsonville. Sixteen seen on January 16 and a pair seen on 
the 17th. Maurice Reed. 
Old squaw—St. Louis area. January 20. Richard Anderson. 
White-winged scoter—Wolf Lake, Chicago. January 20 and February 1h 
LeRoy Johnson. Two birds also seen at St. Louis on January 20 by 
Anderson, and a pair were noticed most of the month at Lock 14 
on the Mississippi river by Jacob Frink & Elton Fawks. 
Red-shouldered hawk—Waukegan. January 28. Cooper. (Specie declining 
rapidly. E.F.) 
Golden eagle—Immature seen at Alton on January 11. K. Arhos and group. 
Bald eagles—Twenty-one adults and five immatures seen on January 10 
at Lock 13, Fulton. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shaw. (This is a high number 
at this location as most of them stay at nearby Savanna Army 
Depot. E.F.) 
Glaucous gull—Chicago. January 20. Charles Clark & Cooper. 
Owls—An influx of owls showed up in Chicago from January 13 through 
18. Fifteen Long-eared and two Horned owls were noted. I. Sanders. 
Short-eared owl—Waukegan. January 28. Cooper. 
Yellow-shafted flicker—Bird seen in the Eureka and Peoria areas. Guth. 
Pileated woodpecker—Lock 13. January 10. Shaws. 
Yellow-bellied sapsucker—Some birds were around all winter at Morrison- 
ville. Migrants seen March 17. Varner. 
Horned lark up in numbers on most reports. 
Winter wren—Sterling. January 14. Shaws. 
Eastern meadowlark—Morrisonville. Very common all winter. 
Western meadowlark—Morrisonville. Song heard all winter. Varner. 
Blackbirds—Most species. St. Louis area. Lucas Wrischink. 
Myrtle warbler—Two spotted in Evanston. Clark. 
Red crossbill—Rock Island. One seen by Lee Kruger. 
White-crowned sporrow—Morrisonville. Very common all winter. Since 
more are trapped each winter for banding, we presume that they 
are wintering here in increasing number. Of 85 banded this winter, 
15 were adults and 70 immatures. Most adults were banded during 
October, November, and April indicating that the strictly winter 
population is mostly immatures. By March 23 most immatures have 
started to molt and possess some adult feathers in their crowns. 
By April 7, at least one individual was half molted on crown. Varner. 
White-threated sparrow—Morrisonviile. Despite their presence elsewhere 
in the state, I have not seen any White-throats in the five years, I 
have been banding birds from December through March. Varner. 
Swamp sparrow—Morrisonville. Some here all winter. Banding indicates 
that an individual bird wintered here in at least one case. Varner. 
FEBRUARY, 1968 
Blue goose—lIllinois City. Three spotted on the 4th. Frink. 
(Old squaw—Thirteen birds at Melrose Park. February 10. Mahoney. 
Bald eagle—Two adults at Union County Federal Refuge seen on February 
3 One adult and an immature seen the next day. The adult was 
being harrassed by a Red-tailed hawk. Both birds were several 
hundred feet above the ground. Twenty to twenty-five birds wintered 
at the refuge. 
