forest areas of more northern 
states, and is very similar to the 
habitat in Ohio described by May- 
field (1951, Aud. Field Notes 5(5): 
292). The Iroquois County area may 
well be the driest vestige of the 
postglacial bogs still occupied by 
veeries. Along the Sugar and Peca- 
tonica rivers in Winnebago County, 
and the Des Plaines River of Cook 
County, veeries are more common 
in what appears to be less special- 
ized habitat — good lowland forest. 
The proximity of the Lee County 
population to the old central IIli- 
nois records, referred to above, has 
given us second thoughts about the 
validity of those records. We now 
feel that there may still be breed- 
ing veery populations along the 
Illinois River and that the Illi- 
nois bottoms should be carefully 
searched for the species. The ab- 
sence of records of breeding veer- 
ies in the northwestern counties of 
Illinois (Fig. 1) is puzzling and may 
