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ary than several penetrating low- 
pitched bird songs strike my ear. 
The loudest can be represented 
“wup che che che che wi wi,” 
which is close enough to Peter- 
son’s “tup tup tup che che che 
Wis Wisse tOn De oeialremmirtlands 
warbler evidence. Abandoning the 
car dead center in the narrow 
truck trail, I plunge through the 
brush in the direction of the song, 
and after a few fleeting glimpses 
get a fair view of the singer when 
he alights on a bare branch. He 
is grey above and yellow below 
and has the prescribed black mask 
and black side streaks. I look for 
the tail way, but he seems to be 
using it only to force out the notes 
of his song. 
As I try to get into position to 
check for black back stripes, he 
takes off. A continued struggle 
through the thin but troublesome 
undergrowth, with interference 
from some breed of welt-raising 
mosquito, produces no_- second 
good sighting. However several 
birds are audible all the while, 
each with his own interpretation of 
the “tup che che wi wi” melody. 
Indirect confirmation of the 
sighting comes in the form of an 
encounter at this spot with Bill 
Dyer, nature photographer, and 
Lawrence Walkinshaw, authority 
on sandhill cranes. They apparent- 
ly have been studying the warb- 
lers for several days, working from 
a forest service camp-ground at 
Kyle Lake, about a mile away. 
A ra 
Bill has been waiting patient 
for clear weather in hopes of ta 
ing a color photo of a male Kir 
land’s against a blue sky bac 
ground, to replace Les Line’s e 
cellent but lost photo (Audubi 
November-December, 1964). 
This, then, is a taste of succe; 
Now back to the vacation sch 
dule. 
But how about the unanswer 
accusation? What trees have be 
damaged and by whom? In tl 
first place, obsessed as I was wi 
jack-pines, it didn’t occur to n 
that Kalkaska is in orchard cou 
try and that the trees in questi 
may be fruit trees. And the ct 
prit? This remained a comple 
mystery until a month later, whi 
I chanced to read in Louise < 
Kiriline Lawrence’s ‘The Love 
and The Wild” that “the eveni 
grosbeak’s partiality for the te 
der new buds of trees has be 
held against it’—(and has bee 
“exposed to the attention of ce 
tain forestry officials.” The size 
a robin? Close enough. A pret 
bird? Undoubtedly! (I remember: 
I HAD seen a pair of evenii 
grosbeaks at Hartwick Pines th 
Saturday.) But in due fairness 
the evening grosbeaks, Lawren 
believes that the resulting dama; 
is greatly overrated, mainly b 
cause tree buds are such a smé 
part of this uncommon grosbeak 
diet. 
—1506 Muirfield A 
Waukegan 
ft ft 
Stewart L. Udall, secretary of the interior under Presi- 
dents Johnson and Kennedy was named visiting professor 
in environmental humanism at the Yale school of forestry. 
Udall is chairman of the board of the Overview Group, an 
international consulting firm working to create a better 
environment for mankind. 
