TPHEVAUDUBON BULEETIN 6| 
Chicago Region Christmas Week 
Bird Census 
It has been the custom of the members of various local Audubon 
Societies to make a Christmas Bird Census, and many of these records 
have been published in Bird Lore. It seems desirable that the members 
of the Illinois Audubon Society should make such a list each season, with 
the results to be published in our Annual Bulletin. In a period of years 
we will have many noteworthy records. “he writer has been compiling 
lists for Bird Lore for several seasons and this year’s reports are more 
unusual than last, though not surprising, considering the mild weather this 
region has experienced. A walk afield during the holidays produced lists 
more like those of early Spring than of mid-Winter. Between Decem- 
ber 20th and January Ist I have had reported to me or observed the fol- 
lowing list, totaling 39 species, not including introduced species: 
Horned Grebe Blue Jay 
American Merganser Crow 
Mallard Tufted ‘Titmouse 
Scaup Duck (?) Chickadee 
American Golden-eye White-breasted Nuthatch 
Old-squaw Brown Creeper 
Marsh Hawk Robin 
Red-tailed Hawk Bohemian Waxwing 
Coot Red-winged Blackbird 
Herring Gull Eastern Meadowlark 
Ring-billed Gull Bronzed Grackle 
Bonaparte’s Gull Goldfinch 
Barn Owl Pine Siskin 
Belted Kingfisher Snow Bunting 
Hairy Woodpecker ‘Tree Sparrow 
Downy Woodpecker Slate-colored Junco 
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Song Sparrow 
Red-headed Woodpecker Swamp Sparrow 
Prairie Horned Lark Cardinal 
Northern Flicker 
Herewith are the Christmas census lists, reproduced as received by 
me and also the list of the group of which I was a member: 
LaGrange, Illinois (3 miles along Salt Creek), December 25: Clear, 
sround bare—Red-tailed Hawk, 1; Flicker, 2; Hairy Woodpecker, 3; 
Downy Woodpecker, 10; Blue Jay, 7; Crow, 10; Tufted Titmouse, 15; 
Chickadee, 25; White-breasted Nuthatch, 9; Red-winged Blackbird, 2; 
