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May 2. A five-year-old cowbird returned. 
May 23. First olive, gray-cheeked and veery thrushes, Canada, magnolia 
and Wilson’s warblers and redstarts banded. 
June 7. Upland plover, new species, banded. Located a new black- 
erowned night heron colony near Plainfield, Ill., and banded 56. Three 
returns already from Joliet and Lemont, Ill., and Mt. Pleasant, Tenn. 
June 14. 18 black-crowns banded at Winnebago, Ill. (244 in four years). 
June 21. Banding great blue herons at Depue, Il]. Not much luck. 
June 25. Young grackles moving around, three banded. 
July 6. At Depue, Ill., to band a nest of American egrets previously 
located. Found a wind storm had blown the young out of the nest, but 
nevertheless, 49 great blue herons were banded. 
July 12. A male grackle banded in my yard had five center tail feathers 
white. 
July 14. Banded a grackle with the lower bill off. 
July 21. 43 young robins banded. 59 birds banded today. 
July 22. Banded a robin with a crossed lower bill, 59 again today. 
August 1. Banding sandpipers at Calumet Lake, netted only 2 killdeers, 
7 semi-palmated sandpipers and one spotted sandpiper. 
August 22. Warblers are banded in good numbers. 
August 25. Two red-shouldered hawks caught in hawk trap and banded. 
August 26. Two screech owls caught in hawk trap and banded. 
September 19. A year-old catbird returned. 
September 23. White-throated sparrows thick, 42 banded. 
Septembei 26. Barn owl caught in hawk trap and banded. 
October 19. First chickadee banded since 1937. Another screech owl. 
November 7. Blue jay banded July 3, 1940, found dead. 
November 8. Captured my first fox sparrow banded by another person, 
Bob Smart, at Jackson Park Canctuary, in last part of October. 
November 14. Last fox sparrow seen and banded. 
November 17. First tree sparrow banded for the fall. 
November 24. Last white-throated sparrow banded. 
November 30. Two barn owls banded, taken from a hollow tree at Oak 
Hill Cemetery. Eight banded since 1938 at Oak Hill. 
December 22. First saw-whet owl banded by me. Two were caught at 
Morton Arboretum, the second being banded by Seymour Levy. 
December 31. Junco returned, banded December 14, 1940. 
My total of birds banded from 19383 to December 31, 1941 is 15,809. 
The outstanding totals and some of the less common ones are as follows: 
Slate-colored junco, 4,300; white-throated sparrow, 3,143; fox sparrow, 
880; robin, 866; olive-backed thrush, 476; great blue heron, 419; ovenbird, 
460; hermit thrush, 364; song sparrow, 344; tree sparrow, 299; brown 
thrasher, 286; bronzed grackle, 251; black-crowned night heron, 244; gray- 
cheeked thrush, 198; redstart, 198; bank swallow, 172; white-crowned 
