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Rare Birds Visit Chicago Area 
By JANET H. ZIMMERMANN 
THE WANDERLUST SEIZED a bird of the South American rivers, and sent 
him traveling five or six thousand miles to Lake Calumet, Chicago, in 
search of new sights. He is the large-billed tern, never before seen in 
the Chicago area, and never recorded for North America. 
Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Campbell, members of the Chicago Ornithological 
Society, found him unconcernedly preening himself on a sand pit south of 
103rd st. on Lake Calumet, on July 15. When they saw his great yellow 
bill and yellow feet and legs they felt the way an art dealer does who has 
suddenly come into the possession of a Raphael painting. 
A quick check with Roger Tory Peterson’s Feld Guide to the Birds 
verified that no North American tern has such a bill. Wilfrid B. Alex- 
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Large-billed Tern from South America, sketched from life by Dick Zusi. 
ander’s Birds of the Ocean, and Robert Cushman Murphy’s Oceanic Birds 
of South America identified it as the large-billed tern. It lives on the 
sandy banks of large, deep rivers along the coasts of South America. One 
species is abundant on the Caribbean coast, and is accidental in Cuba, but 
it has grayish-dusky feet and legs. The primuline yellow feet and legs of 
the Calumet bird indicates that it is a more southerly species from 
