y abundant in northeastern Illinois, and Nehrling 
80) found it not very common inthe north. Judging 
n the counts of other observers (Annan 1962, Eiseman 
shank 1962, Clark & Nice 1950, and Labahn 1941), 
mit thrushes appear to be more common along the lake 
in northeastern Illinois than in any other section of the 
state. A large kill of hermit thrushes by a storm at the south 
end of Lake Michigan on April 16, 1960 (Segal 1960) also 
tends to support the view that hermit thrushes become con- 
centrated at the lake. We found the hermit thrush least 
- 16.—Hermit thrush, generally the most heavily spotted of the Illinois Catharus thrushes. (It also has a conspicuously reddish tail.) 
