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rank politics, and it has the unfortunate effect of discouraging trained 
biologists from entering the Fish and Wildlife Service. It is understood 
that a group of leaders in conservation will soon have a. conference on 
these matters with President Eisenhower and the Secretary of the Interior. 
It is believer that neither of these men has been well informed about con- 
servation matters. 
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LISTS OF LEGISLATORS. Mimeographed lists of legislators have been prepared 
by the Conservation Council.: These include the members of Congressional 
Committees that consider legislation of interest to conservationists, as well 
as the Congressmen from Illinois. Members of the Illinois legislature from 
the Chicago region, with their home addresses, are also included. Copies 
of this list may be obtained by addressing the Illinois Audubon Society at 
the Chicago Natural History Museum. 
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BALD EAGLE BILL. Congressman Homer D. Angell of Oregon has introduced 
another bill, H.R. 210, to extend to the bald eagle in Alaska the protection 
it receives in the States. We hope this will be passed, and that a similar 
bill will be adopted in the U.S. Senate. The September number of the 
Audubon Bulletin mentioned an act by the Secretary of the Interior declar- 
ing killing of the bald eagle in Alaska illegal except when found doing 
damage to fishes, other wildlife, domestic birds or mammals. The Alaska 
bounty law, however, is still in force. The attitude of the new Secretary 
of the Interior toward this problem is not known as yet. 
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Strange Coincidence — Or What? 
By Mrs. J. STEWART BOSWELL 
SEVERAL YEARS AGO, my husband and I started out at 7:00 a.m. one Feb- 
ruary morning to drive from Sycamore, Illinois to Texas. It was unusually 
cold, and as we drove south on Highway 45, a sharp wind from the west 
caused fine, dry snow to penetrate the cracks in the car. The road was a 
sheet of ice, and traffic was light. 
“No birding today!” we thought sadly — for birding has always been a 
big feature of our drives. But after about 50 miles, we began to notice 
birds, many small birds, along the roadside. Prairie horned larks! Not five 
or six, but tens and twenties, pecking at the few spots on the highway 
melted bare by passing cars. Some flocks reached 50 in numbers, and we 
must have passed a thousand birds in a hundred miles. 
We studied these groups for longspurs or bunting, but saw none. Then 
low across the fields, drifting noiselessly in the wind, came a gray, ghostly 
