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own expense to attend a preliminary hearing on the bill on May 20. She 
reports that Rep. Horsley presented a splendid argument for the mourn- 
ing dove, and deserves a letter of thanks from I.A.S. members. She had 
hoped to bring us news of a favorable decision on the bill, and was dis- 
appointed when action was deferred for a week. 
The fate of mourning doves in Illinois will be decided in the next few 
days. Assuming that the bill will go to the floor of the State Assembly for 
a vote, here is what the members should do: Write to the Illinois Audubon 
Society, % The Chicago Natural History Museum, Roosevelt Road and 
Lake Shore Drive, Chicago 5, Illinois, and ask for the list of names and 
addresses of our state representatives. (This list is described in Dr. Strong’s 
“Conservation News and Notes” elsewhere in this issue.) Then write to the 
state representatives and state senators from your district, as well as the 
assemblymen mentioned earlier. Ask them to vote for the Mourning Dove 
Protection Bill, H. R. 514. In this way you will do your part to make it 
possible for coming generations of Illinois children to hear the voice of the 
dove in our land. 
Incidentally, the Stockmen’s Bills described by Dr. Strong in his article, 
also constitute a grave threat to the Middle West. National Forests in the 
Great Lakes area have been the target of land-grabbing and exploitation 
in the past, and will be again if these bills succeed. A letter now to your 
Congressman and the two Illinois Senators is the best way to guarantee 
that our National Parks and Forests will not be despoiled. 
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Bird Records for Northern Illinois 
By ALBERT L. CAMPBELL 
BURROWING OWL (Speotyto cunicularia) — Collected March 27, 1953, at 
97th street and Torrence avenue, Chicago, by a student at Bowen high 
school, where Miss Selma Jones teaches biology. She obtained the specimen 
and had it mounted for the collection at Bowen. This Western owl is a 
rare visitor in the Chicago area. 
A second burrowing owl was observed by Mrs. Theron Wasson and Mrs. 
John Shawvan, of the Chicago Ornithological Society, in April, 1953, on 
Lambert Road, south of Glen Ellyn. This bird was seen independently by 
Mrs. Amy Baldwin, and later by Mr. and Mrs. Albert Campbell. 
HARRIS’S SPARROW (Zonotrichia querula) — Appeared early last December 
at feeding station of Mrs. S. L. McCoy, Route 1, Box 250, Elgin. (Located 
one-half mile west of Bartlett Road on Route 19.) The bird has spent the 
winter at the station and is still there. It has changed color and is singing 
all day long. We both saw and heard this rare visitor. 
MOCKINGBIRD (Mimus polyglottos polyglottos) —- Came to feeding station 
of Mrs. Rollin D. Wood, 181 de Windt Road, Winnetka, on December 20, 
1952, and was still there this month. Mrs. Wood reports that the bird eats 
the suet mostly, but sometimes eats the berries from the bitter-sweet vine. 
This bird seldom appears in the Chicago area, and has not been known to 
spend the winter this far north before. 
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