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and repeated the first half of each Summer, and was very popular with the 
students. It was while he was taking his early morning classes through 
Jackson Park that I first met him and he invited me to become one of the 
charter members of the Chicago Ornithological Society. Dr. Strong also 
gave a course in birds at the University of Michigan Biological Station at 
Douglas Lake during the summers of 1915 and 1916. He founded the 
Chicago Ornithological Society and was its first president, and also presi- 
dent in various years thereafter. He is a member of the Board of Directors 
of the Wild Flower Preservation Society, Illinois Chapter, and. has held 
this position since 1923; a member of the Board of Governors of the 
Institute of Medicine, and was chairman of its Committee on Admissions 
for four years. He has been vice-president of the Conservation Council of 
Chicago, and since 1937 chairman. 
His principal publications have been in the field of animal coloration, 
neurology, ossification of the skeleton, genetics, abnormal pigmentation of 
the skin, comparative anatomy, and bird behavior. His principal work is a 
bibliography especially of interest to investigators, covering the world’s 
ornithological literature in 25 languages, including references up to and a 
little beyond 1926. Two volumes of this have been published and it is 
expected that it will be completed by the spring of 1942. 
The Illinois Audubon Society was organized in 1897 and its first presi- 
dent, Mr. Ruthven Deane, held that position for 15 years, to be succeeded 
by Mr. Orpheus M. Schantz, who also served for 15 years. The third presi- 
dent of the Society, Prof. C. W. G. Ejifrig, has completed 14 years and is 
now at his own insistent request retiring from that office. This record of 
but three presidents in 44 years and the fact that all three have been 
nationally-known ornithologists, is one of which the Society is very proud. 
The consent of Dr. Strong to serve as our president has solved the problem 
of a suitable successor to Prof. Eifrig. The Illinois Audubon Society con- 
siders itself very fortunate in having at its head a man of such attainments. 
3) eran wack 
Dog Kills Bird Which Swallows Snake 
By CONSTANCE NICE 
WHILE WALKING with Mr. Joe Ilg, in Vilas County, Wisconsin, my mother, 
Mrs. M. M. Nice, and I heard a robin’s unmistakable shriek of terror. Mr. 
Ilg’s pointer dog, which had been biting at something in the grass, came 
guiltily back to our party. Where she had been standing we found a just 
killed robin which had swallowed three inches of a seven-inch red-bellied 
snake (Storeria occipitomacularia). This is a species rarely seen because 
of its habit of remaining beneath logs. 
The robin was probably so busy with this mammoth “earthworm” that 
it did not see the dog until too late, or else was hampered in flight by the 
snake’s dangling tail. 
Chicago, Illinois. 
