ILLINOIS AUDUBON BULLETIN 
Published Quarterly by the 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY | 
Number 170) 170 Fall 1974 
OS fe 2 ier he s Message 
In the President’s Message printed in the Summer, 1974, 
ILLINOIS AUDUBON BULLETIN, I explained the steps being 
taken to move toward a coalition between the Jllinots Audubon 
Society and the National Audubon Society. That issue: reached me 
two days ago and is being mailed to the entire membership today. 
Yesterday another meeting was held between JAS and NAS on the 
subject. [his obviously occurred before I had any chance to get 
feedback from the membership from the initial article. That article 
contained one rather misleading typographic error, in paragraph 
four, sentence three black spots are referred to; it should have read 
blank spots. 
Yesterday’s meeting involved the same two NAS staff mem- 
bers; Mr. Charles Callison, Executive Vice-President, and Myron 
Swenson, Regional Representative. Let me stress at this point that 
these meetngs have both been held on the most basic level with 
no firm commitments made on either side. Mr. Callison and Mr. 
Swenson presented three alternate plans which provided a variety 
of options for the JAS. One of these plans had much stronger 
appeal to the JAS group of ofhcers present which included Vice- 
Presidents Mooring and Barron; Treasurer Schulze, Coalition Com- 
mittee Chairperson Kirkland and Executive Director Dewalt in 
addition to myself. 
We had learned from the list comparison that about seven per- 
cent of NAS members in Illinois are AS members also, a lower 
percentage than had been expected. The plan we discussed con- 
sists of the following points which those present from both groups 
agreed on in principle: 
1. This plan aims at merging the J/linois Audubon Society 
and Audubon Council of Illinois, the merged organization to carry 
on the name and present program of the /AS and the coordinating 
functions of the council. 
FRONT COVER: Immature male Lark Bunting at a Park Forest 
bird feeder; photographed by Aura Duke. See FIELD NOTES on 
page 22 for details. 
