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JULY 1971 
Yellow-crowned Night Heron—2 at Chicago July 25. J. Sanders: 
Ruddy Turnstone—60 plus at Waukegan, July 31. J. Sanders, Tweit. 
Stilt Sandpiper—8 at Chicago, July 24. J. Sanders, Tweit. 
Orchard Oriole—Skokie, July 3. J. Sanders. 
AUGUST 1971 
Red-necked Grebe—Aug. 28 at Evergreen Lake. Marjorie Staubus. 
Yellow-crowned Night Heron—Aug. 14; 1 immature and 2 adults; Long 
Grove and Barrington. J. Sanders et al. 
Avocet—Aug. 23 & 29, Coeur Lake, near St. Louis. J. Earl Comfort. 
Piping Plover— 2 at Waukegan Aug. 14; J. Sanders, Balch, Clark and 
Blume: Also 2 near St. Louis; Jim Ruschill. 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper—Aug. 12, 14 & 26, near St. Louis. Comfort. 
Stilt Sandpiper—Aug. 11 near Barrington. Elaine Burstatte. 
Pectoral Sandpiper—350 at Waukegan, Aug. 14. J. Sanders, Balch, Clark, 
Blume. 
Sanderling—120 at Waukegan. J. Sanders et al. 
Baird’s Sandpiper—Aug. 8 & 14, Waukegan. J. Sanders et al. 
Wilson’s Phalarope—near St. Louis, August 23 & 26. Comfort. 
Northern Phalarope—near St. Louis, August 23 & 26. Comfort. 
Fish Crow—17 near St. Louis, late August. Dick Anderson, Paul Bauer. 
SEPTEMBER 1971 
Yellow-crowned Night Heron— Sept. 25. Elaine Burstatte and J. Sanders. 
Great Black-backed Gull—Northwestern Landfill, Sept. 21. Staubus. 
Avocet—Sept. 6 at Lake Bloomington. Marjorie Staubus. 
Worm-eating Warbler—3 or 4, Sept. 12, Bloomington. Stauber. 
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AUDUBON’S WARBLER IN CHICAGO 
On May 7, Charles Clark received word that Ron Pulliam had seen an 
Audubon’s Warbler on the Wooded Isle at Jackson Park. The next day, he, 
Howard Blume, Jeff Saunders, and I went to look for it. Jeff spotted it in 
a tree, where we all had a prolonged opportunity to view the bird as it 
fed, at distances as close as fifteen feet. We were in agreement that the 
bird was a non-hybridized female Audubon’s Warbler. The features upon 
which we based identification were: (1) Clear solid yellow throat; (2) Gray 
auriculars; (3) Incomplete eyering, with complete lack of any stripe through 
or extending from) eye. 
—L. Balch 
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NESTING LEAST TERNS 
During late July, 1971, Paul Bauer and I observed a small colony of nest- 
ing Least Terns on a sand bar in the Mississippi opposite North St. Louis, 
just south of the Chain of Rocks Bridge. Technically, I believe the sand 
bar is in Missouri but close to the Illinois-Missouri boundary. We found 
six pairs of terns. We photographed one egg and one chick, just hatched 
