36 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 
In searching for data on the Carolina Wren in this locality I turned 
to “Bird Observations Near Chicago,’ by Ellen Drummond Farwell of 
Lake Forest, which was published privately after her death. 
To my delight I found that she devoted several pages to notes on the 
Carolina Wren. She first saw him in Elmhurst in 1894. In August, 1900, 
comes the first record at Ardleigh, her home in Lake Forest. She then 
saw him at intervals up to Oct. 13. 
In August, 1901, she writes, “has been here at intervals since June 
27th” and December 17 of that year is her latest record of his appearance 
at any time. Her entry for May 19, 1902, says, “The Wren has been 
here for weeks, and is undoubtedly nesting here.” She saw him occa- 
sionally until October 30. After an interval of 4 years in which she had 
not seen or heard one she heard the Carolina Wren again near and singing 
loudly. 
Her last record, July, 1909, says, “The Carolina Wren has been 
here all spring and has sung constantly.” She adds, ““He must have nested 
nearby.” 
Mr. Edwin R. Ford of the Chicago Academy of Sciences was kind 
enough to send me what few published references they possessed at the 
Academy. ‘They include a number of casual records of this species having 
been seen in Wilmette, March 21, 1926, Lincoln Park, September 5, 1926, 
and Glencoe, Spring 1929, and Mr. Ford’s own record of having found 
the Carolina Wren nesting in Palos Park in April, 1909. ““Uhe nest was 
in a crevice formed by a spreading of the main stem of a large elm tree 
and was very close to the ground.” 
This seems especially interesting in view of the fact that Mrs. Farwell 
thinks they nested on the north shore in Lake Forest the same Spring, 1909! 
Nature Study at the Owasippi 
Scout Camps 
By Gorpon §. PEARSALL 
Very few people in Chicago beside scout leaders and parents of scouts 
know much about the Chicago Council Boy Scout Camps which are lo- 
cated near Whitehall, Michigan. But people who have visited them are 
loud in their praise of these camps which offer such wonderful opportunities 
tor several hundred boys to learn nature study, to say nothing of all the 
essentials of woodcraft and outdoor life that go to make up a good woods- 
man and camper. Here the boys may spend two weeks or more each 
Summer and have a chance to get back to nature and see her as it is im- 
