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plumage. The front view of the face of the male was quite striking. They 
seemed to skip over the water somthing like coots in making short changes 
in position. A scaup female seemed to take quite an interest in the male 
harlequin, driving off the female every time she came near her mate. Was 
there a scandal even there in this topsy-turvy world? There were several 
nice scaup males in the flock. 
Another good find for us in Jackson park was a pair of Bohemian wax- 
wings, first on the Wooded island and later on the promontory at LaRabida 
Jackson Park sanitarium. They fed on the privet berries. For years I had 
not seen any Bohemians; then saw one in the Lincoln park sanctuary last 
fall, and now these two in Jackson park. I had watched cedar waxwing's 
for years hoping to see them pass-the-cherry back and forth. Then when I 
found the Bohemians at LaRabida I witnessed the sweetest love scene I 
ever saw among birds. They passed a little black privet fruit back and forth 
for some time, until a back-fire from an automobile on the highway 
frightened them. The fruit was dropped and the birds flew away. 
Many long eared owls wintered at Morton arboretum, also a red phase 
screech owl, and great horned owls were seen early in the winter. But no 
one was able to find the dainty little saw-whet owl there, much to our dis- 
appointment. A year earlier he could almost always be found at the same 
end of a mixed spruce forest. 
A female pine grosbeak was in the arboretum most of the winter in 
company with cedar waxwings, purple finches, pine siskins, red crossbills, 
and a few robins. A few evening grosbeaks were seen. The pine grosbeak 
lost its tail feathers early but they had grown out by early spring and it 
was a lovely bird. There was an abundant harvest of the Japanese crab- 
apples and the birds certainly made good use of them. 
The winter was generally cold and blustery except for brief spells. 
Killdeer came north about March 5 in great numbers, but the weather 
turned cold again and none were seen for some time. 
Monday, March 27, was cloudy with high winds, but what a day for 
good birding reports! Mrs. Margaret Morse Nice was notified that a good 
migration was on, so she went to Wooded island in Jackson park and found 
many birds; the outstanding one of all was a hooded warbler! I went to 
Eggers woods and found a pair of wood ducks, a black and white warbler, 
a winter wren, two purple martins, cardinals singing and robins every- 
where. I also found a saw-whet owl at last, two woodcock, a swamp spar- 
row, many juncos and field, tree, fox and song sparrows, a_ sapsucker, 
flicker, downy woodpecker, kingfisher, and red-winged blackbirds singing. 
There was.a migration of marsh hawks and what seemed to be Cooper’s 
or sharp-shinned hawks, but the wind was so strong that it was difficult 
to tell one from the other. From there I went to Lake Calumet where on 
the flats a snowy owl was still holding out against the wind. I found blue- 
winged teal, ring-necked ducks, ruddy ducks, American golden-eyes, one 
old-squaw, coots, shovellers, and a nicely plumaged horned grebe. There 
were scarcely any herring gulls, which seemed strange in view of the 
hundreds out:there almost any winter day. I arrived home at 3 p.m. and 
at 4 a storm of rain and hail stones the size of peas pelted Chicago. 
