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The Society now has its office at the Chicago Natural History Museum, 
from which all its activities are directed. All lectures are held in Simpson 
Theater at the Museum. 
Present-day activities of the Illinois Audubon Society include: 
1. Continued encouragement of the study of birds, particularly by school 
children, and distribution of literature regarding ornithology and con- 
servation of natural resources. 
Presentation of the National Audubon Society Screen Tours. 
Conducting spring bird walks in various parks in Chicago and suburbs. 
Publication of the Illinois Audubon Bulletin. 
Active support of conservation programs, both local and national. 
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The Society, in pursuing these activities, endeavors to further the aims 
and ideals which its founders inaugurated with such foresight more than 
fifty years ago. 
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Unusual Birds Seen in Evanston 
By Mrs. JANET H. ZIMMERMANN 
A RARE VISITOR from the spruce forests of Alaska is spending the winter 
in Evanston, enjoying the hospitality of Mrs. George Sollitt, 2324 Lincoln- 
wood Avenue. It is the varied thrush (Ixoreus naevius), a relative of the 
familiar robin. The bird is feasting on the fruit of a Siberian crab-apple 
tree. Members of the Evanston Bird Club and the Chicago Ornithological 
Society have been swarming over the Sollitt’s back-yard, eager to add the 
bird to their life list of observations. It was first seen on December 15. 
In the summer breeding season the varied thrush nests in spruce forests 
from Alaska and the Yukon to British Columbia, northwestern Montana, 
and northeastern Oregon. It winters mainly in the mountains of interior 
California, south to Los Angeles County. The Evanston visitor is probably 
a female. It looks at first glance very much like a robin, but the bill is 
longer and thinner. It has yellow underparts, with a rather smudged gray 
necklace around the upper breast. There are two golden-orange wing-bars, 
and a golden-orange eye-stripe. The back is a dark grayish-brown. The 
mature male has a bright rust-colored breast, wing-bars and eye-stripe, 
and a black necklace. 
Another unusual sight is a flock of nine Hungarian, or European part- 
ridges (Perdix perdix) on the campus of Northwestern University. They 
have been ranging up and down the lake-front from the water works at 
the foot of Lincoln Street, to Dempster Street. This bird was introduced 
into the northwestern and middle western states from central Europe to 
supplement the diminishing numbers of native upland game birds. It has 
become established in Illinois only within recent years, and is still con- 
sidered a rarity. 
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