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Since then I have often identified, without seeing, the distant yellow- 
head by listening for the windmill squeaking song — although “squeaking” 
hardly does justice to the rustic beauty of the melody. 
Before I had actually seen the bird I imagined that its yellow head 
would be an instant give-away. But when I chanced to find it walking about 
in the green growth of a wet meadow with golden sunlight reflected every- 
where, I found its yellow head quite inconspicuous. And when it flew across 
the sparkling water, its head might as well have been black for all the 
attention it drew. What did attract the eye, even at a distance, were the 
square white shoulder patches that flashed like semaphore signals. 
Incidentally, the birds, which breed regularly at Baker Lake, have been 
banded by Charles Kossack of Barrington. One return was received from 
south of Mexico City. 
Baker Lake lies on the eastern edge of Barrington and is bounded on 
the north by Hillsdale avenue and on the northwest by a religious camp 
ground. Both of these borders are accessible and good places for observa- 
tion. From these points yellow-headed blackbirds often can be heard. 
Occasionally they visit the shore line here. By the exercise of ingenuity one 
can penetrate to the southwest corner of the slough by automobile and come 
out upon a hill overlooking the south end. After leaving the car and cross- 
ing the fence line, the panorama of the south end is spread before one, 
and with good luck you may find through binoculars, toward the inhospit- 
able shore, a yellow-head perched in his territory singing. 
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Screen Tours 
The Illinois Audubon Society again will present its popular series of 
screen tours next winter. The tentative schedule, subject to approval by 
all cities on the screen tour circuit, but not likely to be changed, is as 
follows: 
Monday night, Nov. 27 — ‘‘Wildlife Down East’’ by Carl Buch- 
heister 
Saturday afternoon, Jan. 13 — ‘‘Saguaroland’’ by Karl Maslowski 
Saturday afternoon, Feb. 10 — ‘‘This Curious World in Nature’’ 
by William Ferguson 
Sunday afternoon, March 18 — ‘‘In the Hills of Gold’’ by Olin 
Sewall Pettingill, Jr. 
Wednesday night, April 18 — ‘‘Canada West’’ by Bert Harwell 
All lectures will be held in the Simpson theater of the Chicago Natural 
History Museum, as they were last winter. The museum has much more 
seating space than did the Chicago Academy of Sciences, where tours for- 
merly were held, and visitors to the museum often are attracted to the lec- 
tures as well. As a result, attendance last winter was substantially higher 
than ever before. The Roger Tory Peterson lecture set a new high with an 
audience of more than 900 persons. 
