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away. The parents, fearless, stood guard on the far side of the street and 
waited for the chicks to cross. We could have picked up the little ones and 
banded them but we were too surprised to do more than stand and stare. 
They appeared to be less than the size of our. thumbs with fawn-colored 
down, spotted with black, and pinkish, transparent legs, long and weak- 
looking. The cement road was too much for one baby and he walked across 
on his “elbows.” 
The old birds held their ground, standing tall on the curb till all the 
young had scrambled up, then walked slowly off and hid their little family 
in the grass. 
June 6. We returned to the block where we had seen the young plovers. 
Two pairs, apparently with their young, were now sharing adjoining blocks 
as feeding grounds. Here rather sparse grass came about to the plovers’ 
backs, interspersed with bunches of flowers and strips of deeper cover. 
June 13. 6-7 pm. <A further concentration of plovers in the communal 
feeding ground. Five or six in a row on telephone poles. They fiew off the 
poles and circled us when we entered the fields. Three young, about one-third 
grown, crossed the street. They must have been later nestlings than the 
ones we saw May 31, for according to growth charts plovers are almost full 
grown in two weeks. 
There was now much whistling with both the long and short whistle, 
sometimes used separately, sometimes beginning with the short whistle and 
ending with the long. They had scolding notes and single warning chirps. 
June 20. Two plovers on the poles. They circled us, alighted in deep 
grass, crouched down out of sight, then ran and rose far away. 
June 27. Two plovers on the poles. Others heard in grass to the south. 
There was little whistling. Population seemed to be thinning out. 
July 4 we were away. July 10 we returned and looked around from 
6:30 to 8 a.m. There were no plovers in sight though we thought we heard 
two in the grass. Instead, a young sparrow hawk family occupied the wires 
where the plovers used to be. 
We returned from time to time throughout the summer but found no 
further sign of the plovers and to our knowledge they were not seen by 
any of our very active friends around Chicago. 
Comparing the above chronology with one of a study of upland plovers 
at Faville Grove Wildlife Area in southern Wisconsin, we find the two 
records about the same. 
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Bird Slides Available 
The Society has purchased a set of colored bird slides which it will make 
available to any of our affiliated bird, nature, and garden clubs, scout and 
school groups, and similar organizations for bird study. 'The only charge is 
a small fee to cover packing and shipping costs. To arrange for use of the 
slides write to Miss Esther A. Craigmile, 315 N. LaGrange Road, 
LaGrange Park, IIl. 
