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Melody.” Mrs. Bingham’s own vision of the camp is a fitting conclusion 
to this account of a vacation on Hog Island. She writes: 
“The whole camp exhales an atmosphere of wonder — the beginning of 
wisdom. Here was my forest wilderness, a laboratory of eager students 
who were not only enjoying it, they were taking it, bit by bit, studying ~ 
and classifying its resources, making it yield its secrets! And yet with it 
all, the wilderness remained a wilderness. The solitude was as untouched 
as ever. 
“T recalled those years during which I had been trying to convince 
somebody, anybody, that the island was a good place for a nature camp, 
and how I had been told over and over again that there were not enough 
people interested in nature in the whole United States to support such a 
project. Each time that I heard it could not be done, I turned my thoughts 
toward those silent, moss-carpeted forests. I listened to the thrushes in 
the gathering dusk. I saw those magic midsummer nights and the slowly 
engulfing tide ... when each stroke of the oars left a cloud of light deep 
down in the water. ... I seemed to be watching the migration of warblers 
high up against the disc of the moon, or listening at noonday to the chant 
of the vireo, voice of the northern wilderness. Ah, I thought, if only the 
island could be saved it would do more for us than we could possibly do 
for it.... And so, it seems, Hog Island has become not only a focus of 
interest, but a center from which radiate new ideas and new enthusiasm 
for the preservation of the out-of-doors, indeed, of our whole heritage of 
natural resources.” 
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Seissor-tailed Flycatcher in Chicago Area 
By Karu E. BARTEL 
ON MAy 3, 1947, a scissor-tailed fiycatcher (Muscivora forticata) was 
identified by Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Campbell and Mrs. Amy G. Baldwin 
at Wolf Lake, Indiana, about a quarter of a mile from the Illinois state 
line. This bird was watched for half an hour, frequently at distances of 
not more than 25 and 30 feet. While feeding on flies, over a cinder fill 
adjacent to the lake, ample opportunity was afforded to observe the long 
tail as well as the pink sides and under lining of the wings when the wings 
were being folded. 
This flycatcher was present next day and was seen by seven other 
members of the Chicago Ornithological Society, including the writer. A 
heavy gale had been blowing from the south on May 8 and may have 
assisted this bird in its wanderings north and east of its normal range. 
This appears to be the third record for the Chicago area. One was seen 
at La Grange, Cook County, Ill., April 22, 1902 (Craigmile), and the other 
was seen in Lincoln Park, Chicago, on May 20, 1933 (Dreuth). 
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THE EYE SEES what it has the means of seeing, and its means of seeing are 
in proportion to the love and desire behind it. The eye is informed and 
sharpened by the thought.—John Burroughs. 
