16 THE AUDUBON  BULDEETHN 
Elm Place School in Highland Park is a fitting monument to his 
greatness as an educator. As a model of efficiency, refinement and perfect 
discipline, it was known all over the country. His ability to select capable 
teachers was almost uncanny. As a member of teachers’ associations in 
Northern Illinois, he was a fearless champion of all that was worthwhile 
for the advancement of primary education. 
Mr. Smith never married, and his mother said that as soon as he 
began to earn enough to be worthwhile, he told her he would always 
make a home for her. 
His mother in her 92nd year, and a brother and two sisters survive 
him. 
An unique and admirable man, giving to others without regard for 
his personal health or comfort, the best of his life, Jesse Lowe Smith will 
live as a dear memory to all who were privileged to be numbered among 
his friends. af 
OrpeHEUS Moyer SCHANTZ 
Field Days in Michigan 
By Epwarp R. Forp 
Since 1922, with the exception of the years 1930 to 1933, inclusive, 
I have spent much of spring and summer on one of the small lakes in 
Newaygo Co., Mich. This région is in a comparatively narrow belt of 
the Alleghanian faunal area which here divides the Carolinian area from 
the Canadian zone. 
In the period named special notice has been given to breeding records, 
with particular regard to the probability of the occurrence of Canadian 
forms in the nesting season. However, although Dr. Barrows (Birds ot 
Michigan, 1912) records such species as Junco, White-throated Sparrow 
and Hermit Thrush as having nested in Kent County, some 30 miles 
farther south, I have never come upon any evidence (except some very old 
workings of the Pileated Woodpecker) of the breeding of any Canadian 
species in the area here considered. On the other hand the Carolinian 
fauna is fairly well represented by the Cardinal, Prothonotary and Tufted 
‘Titmouse. 7 
‘The territory is largely of cut-over white-pine land, now grown to 
scrub oak and aspen with a sprinkling of wild cherry, white birch, iron- 
wood, service-berry, etc. here are a number of tamarack swamps and, 
here and there, groups of white pine which escaped the general destruction. 
‘The lumbering method then was to cut everything to facilitate getting 
out the logs but many were allowed to lie because of defects of some 
sort. Hence there is plenty of cover for ground-nesting species such as 
