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Mercer County, WESTERN PORTION. (All points within a 15-mile diameter 
circle centered four miles east of New Boston). Dec. 26; 6 a.m. to 5 p.m.; 
overcast, misty; temp. 32 to 36 degrees; wind NW, 0-15 m.p.h.; ground bare, 
river open. 10 observers in 4 parties. Total party-hours, 29 (6% on foct, 22% 
by car); total party-miles, 324 (9 on foot, 315 by car). Peter C. Petersen, Jr. 
(compiler), 235 McCellan Blvd., Davenport, Iowa 52803. 
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Ogle County, OREGON. (All points within a 15-mile diameter circle 
centered one mile south of White Pines State Park, including The Park, 
Lowell Park, Lorado Taft Field Campus, Lowden State Park, Stronghold, 
Camp Ross, and the Rock River Valley between Oregon and Dixon; weods 
and bottomlands 60%, fields and roadsides 30%, farm yards and residential 
areas 10%). Jan. 2: 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; temp. 18 to 29 degrees; partly cloudy 
skies; wind 1 to 5 m.p.h.; one-half to cne inch of new snow cover; most 
streams and Rock River still open; ponds and sloughs frozen. Total party- 
hours, 58 (25% on foot, 32% by car); total party-m‘les, 226 (27 on foot, 199 
by car). 29 observers in 11 parties; 2 observers at feeders. Mrs. Harry A. 
Shaw (compiler), 1304 Fourth Avenue. Sterling, Ill. 61081—THE WHITE 
PINES BIRD CLUB members and friends. 
