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2 red-shouldered hawks, 1 American rough-legged hawk, 12 bald eagles, 
5 marsh hawks, 1 pigeon hawk, 16 sparrow hawks, 45 bobwhites, 2 ring- 
necked pheasants, 4 coots, 1 killdeer (plover), 56 herring gulls, 73 ring- 
billed gulls, 12 rock doves, 48 mourning doves, 12 screech owls, 5 great 
horned owls, 4 barred owls, 8 kingfishers, 6 flickers, 1 pileated woodpecker, 
15 red-bellied woodpeckers, 232 red-headed woodpeckers, 3 yellow-bellied 
sapsuckers, 16 hairy woodpeckers, 55 downy woodpeckers, 75 prairie horned 
larks, 3 northern horned larks, 83 blue jays, 300 crows, 22 black-capped 
chickadees, 23 tufted titmice, 10 white-breasted nuthatches, 5 brown creepers, 
11 Carolina wrens, 4 mockingbirds, 33 robins, 2 hermit thrushes, 130 blue- 
birds, 3 golden-crowned kinglets, 4 migrant shrikes, 600 starlings, 1500 
house sparrows, 26 European tree sparrows, 55 meadowlarks, 130 red- 
wings, 30 rusty blackbirds, 10 bronzed grackles, 400 (est.) cardinals, 3 
purple finches, 37 goldfinches, 2000 juncos, 800 tree sparrows, 12 field 
sparrows, 12 white-throated sparrows, 3 swamp sparrows, 17 song sparrows. 
In the winter of 1939, 2 golden eagles were seen, so also a flock of 
pine siskins, a single killdeer and a Wilson’s snipe. 
Grafton, Illinois, January 10, 1940 
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WARREN QO. CLARKE, a farmer living near Edinburgh, Indiana, reports 
that he found a screech owl attacking his hens during the zero weather 
last winter. More than half a dozen hens had been found dead when one 
night, hearing a commotion in the barn, he went out to investigate and in 
a trough he found a hen struggling with a screech owl attached to its 
head and drinking its blood. The owl did not loosen its hold and he carried 
both to the house. He supposed that the long continued cold weather had 
made food so scarce that the owl was starving. 
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A CAPACITY audience of members and guests of the Society had the pleasure 
on the evening of March 18 of hearing a lecture by Dr. Alfred M. Bailey 
entitled “Where Falls the Yellowstone.” He told us of the birds, animals 
and flowers of the Rocky Mountains in summer and winter, and illustrated 
his talk with beautiful color movies. Dr. Bailey is director of the Colorado 
Museum of Natural History, was a former director of the Chicago Academy 
of Sciences, and is an honorary member of our Society. 
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ON THE evening of April 22, the Society presented a lecture by Dr. Arthur 
A. Allen of Cornell University entitled “Birds of America.” Several reels 
of kodachrome film took us through portions of Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, 
Texas, California, and Yellowstone and Glacier Parks. The object of the 
expedition was the recording of the calls and songs of many species of 
birds, some of them rare and in one case the first reported nesting in 
the United States. Between reels these sound records were given, accom- 
panied by stills of the birds recorded. The lecture room of the Academy 
was taxed to overflowing by the audience which came to see and hear the 
splendid records which had been secured by Dr. Allen. 
