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by the hunting season, has reduced their ranks to quite a noticeable degree. 
A game warden reported one brood of newly hatched Quail on the open- 
ing day of the hunting season (November 10th). 
Killdeer, a rare winter resident; Mourning Dove, not common. Some- 
times a flock will stay all winter, feeding in wind-protected thickets in bad 
weather and foraging in deserted grain fields in more open weather. 
Screech Owl, a rare winter resident; Barred Owl, rare; Flicker, quite 
common; Red-bellied Woodpecker, at present quite common; Red-headed 
Woodpecker, at present not common. It seems that this species and the 
above are never common at the same time after the breeding season. At 
one period of winter, the Red-bellied Woodpecker will be quite common, 
while the Red-head will be rare. Then the situation will change and the 
Red-head will be common and the Red-bellied less so. I can advance no 
reason for this peculiarity. Hairy Woodpecker, quite common; Downy 
Woodpecker, quite common; Blue Jay, very common; Crow, quite com- 
mon; Black-capped Chickadee, quite common; Tufted Titmouse, common; 
White-breasted Nuthatch, a late winter arrival and rare; Brown Creeper, 
less common than usual; House Wren, rare winter resident; Winter Wren, 
not common; Carolina Wren, quite common; Mockingbird, more com- 
mon than usual this winter; Bluebird, not common but more so than usual; 
Golden-crowned Kinglet, not a common winter resident, common tran- 
sient; Ruby-crowned Kinglet, rare, less so in the late winter and early 
spring; Cedar Waxwing, rare; Migrant Shrike, not common; English 
Sparrow, abundant; Meadowlark, common at intervals; Rusty Blackbird, 
not common; Cardinal, quite common; Purple Finch, a rare winter visi- 
tor; Goldfinch, common; Red-eyed ‘Towhee, rare winter resident; Vesper 
Sparrow, not common; Junco, very common; Tree Sparrow, quite com- 
mon; White-throated Sparrow, not common; Swamp Sparrow, common; 
Song Sparrow, quite common. % 
Ler Busu, Cambria, III. 
Notes from Ottawa, La Salle County 
(The 1934 Season) 
The cold weather of midwinter. trought a flock of the rare northern 
visitants—the Evening Grosbeaks, to Ottawa, Decemker 27, 1933. They 
stayed until the middle of April, feeding on blackberries, which furnished 
them a bountiful supply during their stay. A flock of Cedar Waxwings 
were also observed feeding on these berries January 1. Two Red-breasted 
Nuthatches came to a friend’s suet until the first of April. A Kingfisher 
remained throughout the winter—having to eke out a meager living on 
several occasions, when the river froze over, 
