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The ladies of the First Baptist Church served a chicken dinner Satur- 
day evening and Prof. Eifrig took this occasion to express our appreciation 
of all that the Survey staff were doing to make the meeting a success. 
Dr. A. S. Hawkins outlined the life of a waterfowl research worker through 
the year, with particular emphasis on their efforts to restore the wood duck, 
and illustrated his talk with lantern slides. Suitable natural cavities are 
not now readily found and they have placed some 350 nesting boxes in 
various localities, about three-fourths of which were occupied by wood 
ducks. In one area where twenty boxes were placed, nineteen were taken. 
A tree in the square in the village of Bath, directly opposite the bank, 
has been the nesting place of wood ducks for fourteen consecutive years. 
Dr. Hawkins’ remarks were highly entertaining and instructive and he 
answered many questions from the audience. Two reels of moving pictures 
of wild animal and bird life completed a most enjoyable evening. 
Eight o’clock on Sunday morning found the group again gathering 
near the courthouse and the route this time led us south to the town of 
Bath, where we saw the tree of which Dr. Hawkins had told us the 
evening before, and then to another area of marsh and open water where 
more of the life of the region was seen. The cavalcade then headed back 
to the laboratory of the Illinois Natural History Survey on the shore of 
Quiver Creek. A hike along the levee led to the duck traps, but the ducks 
chose to be the only ones that did not co-operate and the banding traps 
were empty. A hike in the opposite direction took us to the fish traps, 
four of which were pulled and some 3,000 fish of about fifteen different 
species were examined, displayed and released. 
Each member of the group had provided himself with a box lunch 
before starting out and as a final act of courtesy and generosity, the staff 
of the Survey provided fried fish and coffee for everybody. The day ended 
with but one common expression that the trip had been an unqualified 
success. 
A composite list of the birds seen shows the following: pied-billed 
grebe, double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, common Canada goose, 
mallard, black duck, gadwall, baldpate, American pintail, green-winged teal, 
blue-winged teal, shoveller, wood duck, redhead, ring-necked duck, lesser 
scaup duck, bufflehead, ruddy duck, red-breasted merganser, red-tailed hawk, 
red-shouldered hawk, broad-winged hawk, marsh hawk, duck hawk, sparrow 
hawk, greater prairie chicken, bobwhite, ring-necked pheasant, American 
coot, killdeer, Wilson’s snipe, eastern solitary sandpiper, greater yellow-legs, 
lesser yellow-legs, pectoral sandpiper, least sandpiper, herring gull, ring- 
billed gull, eastern mourning dove, eastern belted kingfisher, flicker, red- 
bellied woodpecker, yellow-bellied sapsucker, hairy woodpecker, downy wood- 
pecker, phoebe, horned lark, prairie horned lark, tree swallow, bank swallow, 
barn swallow, purple martin, blue jay, crow, black-capped chickadee, tufted 
titmouse, brown creeper, Carolina wren, catbird, brown thrasher, robin, 
wood thrush, bluebird, ruby-crowned kinglet, migrant shrike, starling, 
English sparrow, eastern meadowlark, red-wing, bronzed grackle, cowbird, 
cardinal, purple finch, goldfinch, red-eyed towhee, junco, tree sparrow, field 
sparrow, white-throated sparrow, fox sparrow, swamp sparrow, song: spar- 
