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ward. The usual fiight of snow geese and blue geese has nearly missed 
this part of Michigan up to the last few days, when two large flocks of 
geese commonly but erroneously called “brant” came down at the Kellogg 
sanctuary. Dr. Pirnie expects more of these geese at Wintergreen. They 
fly high in flocks of several hundred and are often missed by the observer. 
“Hunters who have been wondering about the Canadas are advised by 
Dr. Pirnie that many Canada geese have been down for the last month, 
but new ones are coming all the time. Some stay through late November 
or even into December, he says. Dr. Pirnie also reminds the general public 
that this is the most interesting time of the year at the sanctuary, which 
is the property of Michigan State College. The sanctuary is still open 
every day to visitors.” 
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Coming Lectures 
THE ILLINOIS AUDUBON SOCIETY has been fortunate in being able to again 
schedule Alfred M. Bailey, Director of the Colorado Museum of Natural 
History in Denver, and a former Director of the Chicago Academy of 
Sciences, on its lecture series. He is so well known to us all that no com- 
ment is necessary upon the splendid quality of his photography or the 
interesting way in which he presents his subject, which this time will be 
“Where the West Begins.” He will be with us on Wednesday evening, 
March 1. 
Following closely will be a lecture by Olin Sewall Pettingill, Jr., who, 
on Saturday evening, March 18, will present his all-color film entitled 
“Wildlife in Action.” Dr, Pettingill has been with us before and past 
performances guarantee us a delightful evening as he relates his experi- 
ences with birds—some well-known and others not so much so—and animals. 
Many hours and sometimes weeks have been passed waiting for the proper 
moment to photograph certain scenes, and the result is solid entertainment 
and good education. 
On Friday evening, April 7, we present a speaker new to our platform 
but not unknown to many of our friends who have visited the sanctuaries 
of the Carolinas and the Gulf Coast. Alexander Sprunt, Jr., whose sub- 
ject will be “A Naturalist Afield, Afloat and Aloft,” is the southern repre- 
sentative of the National Audubon Society and has an unusual acquaintance 
with the natural history of the South, having been for several years Curator 
_of Ornithology in the museum at Charleston, his native city. He has super- 
vised the work of Audubon wardens in the great sanctuary areas of the 
South for many years, and has more recently organized the Audubon 
Wildlife Tours, field trips where one observes at close range the spectacular 
wildlife of those areas. We look forward with much anticipation. to 
meeting the “prowler of the swamps” as he himself has phrased it. 
For the final program of this season we offer on Thursday evening, 
May 4, a lecture by Edna Maslowski entitled “Our Heritage in the Rockies.” 
Karl Maslowski, who has been before us in other years, is now in the armed 
service, and Mrs. Maslowski, who accompanied him and shared in the 
