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Cooper’s hawk, 22 pheasants, 250 herring gulls, 1 kingfisher, 2 hairy wood- 
peckers, 6 downy woodpeckers, 15 blue jays, 12 chickadees, 3 tufted titmice, 
4 white-breasted nuthatches, 25 starlings, 200 English sparrows, 5 cardinals, 
1 red-eyed towhee, 50 juncos, 50 tree sparrows. The towhee, a male, came 
here on the 13th of December and was banded by me on the 22nd of 
December, and is still here on the 31st. I wonder if this is common up here 
or whether it is rare. One thousand ducks too far out on the lake to identify. 
Total 21 species, 1717 individuals. George Kent. (George Kent moved from 
Blue Island to Holland, Mich.) 
Baileytown, Porter County, Ind. At the Friends of our Native Land- 
scape and two and one-half miles of lake front, December 28, 10:00 A.M. 
to 3:00 P.M. Cloudy, Temp. twenty-five degrees. Seven miles on foot: 
1 common loon, 1 sparrow hawk, 1 herring gull, 5 ring-billed gulls, 4 downy 
woodpeckers, 8 blue jays, 5 crows, 5 chickadees, 1 golden-crowned kinglet, 
3 juncos, 35 tree sparrows. Total 11 species, 69 individuals. Mrs. Amy G. 
Baldwin, Karl E. Bartel and Seymour Levy. 
Waukegan, Lake County, Ill. Waukegan Harbor, lake shore north of 
Waukegan and Public Service pond, December 31, 10:00 A.M. to 8:00 P.M. 
West wind, clear, Temp. one degree. Seven miles on foot: 1 pied-billed 
grebe, 48 mallards, 1 green-winged teal, 2 shoveller ducks, 5 ring-necked 
ducks, 4 canvas-back ducks, 110 lesser scaup ducks, 126 American golden- 
eyes, 3 hooded mergansers, 500 American mergansers, 15 red-breasted 
mergansers, 1 sparrow hawk, 2 American coots, 400 herring gulls, 50 ring- 
billed gulls, 3 blue jays, 8 crows, 2 red-breasted nuthatches, 5 starlings, 
18 English sparrows, 8 tree sparrows. Total 21 species, 1310 individuals. 
Karl E. Bartel, Mrs. Amy G. Baldwin, Alfred H. Reuss, Jr., Frederick C. 
Labahn, Jr., Jim and Seymour Levy. 
New London, Wis. In the town of New London and in the nearby 
Hatton Park, December 19 and 20. Birds listed below show largest number 
of individuals seen in one day. Snow and fair weather, the wind was west: 
— American mergansers, — red-breasted mergansers, 1 marsh hawk, 2 
ruffed grouse, 5 ring-necked pheasants, 1 hairy woodpecker, 3 downy wood- 
peckers, 5 crows, 4 chickadees, 3 white-breasted nuthatches, 5 red-breasted 
nuthatches, 2 brown creepers, 6 golden-crowned kinglets, 8 English sparrows, 
6 tufted titmice, 3 cardinals, 30 evening grosbeaks, 20 common redpolls, 
5 northern pine siskins, 20 juncos, 50 tree sparrows, 4 song sparrows. Total 
22 species, 183+ individuals. Guy Roderick. 
Park Ridge, Cook County, Ill. Along the Desplaines River from three 
miles south of Higgins Road to Touhy Avenue and over adjacent country, 
December 26, 7:00 A.M. to 12:15 P.M. Cloudy, ground bare, wind northwest, 
Temp. twenty-eight degrees min., thirty-two degrees max., about fourteen 
miles on foot, eight by auto: 1 Cooper’s hawk, 1 red-shouldered hawk, 
3 pheasants, 1 herring gull, 3 hairy woodpeckers, 21 downy woodpeckers, 
1 blue jay (heard), 21 crows, 25 black-capped chickadees, 5 tufted titmice, 
5 white-breasted nuthatches, 4 brown creepers, 6 starlings, 26 English 
sparrows, 1 red-winged blackbird, 16 cardinals, 40 slate-colored juncos, 
20 purple finches, 6 goldfinches, 110 tree sparrows, 10 song sparrows. Total 
21 species, 346 individuals. Donald P. Duncan. 
