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Title: The Audubon annual bulletin
Identifier: audubonannualb191623illi (find matches)
Year: 1938 (1930s)
Authors: Illinois Audubon Society
Subjects: Birds; Birds
Publisher: (Chicago, Ill. ) : The Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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10 THE AUDUBON BULLETIN Birds' Nests on the Campus at Macomb Editor's Note—Attention is called to Normal School Quarterly, Number 30, en- titled "Birds of the Campus," issued by the Western Illinois State Normal School at Macomb, in June, 1917. This reports the result of migration records and of studies of nesting habits and conditions made by the students and faculty of the school in 1916 under the leadership of Mr. Charles W. Finley, instructor in Biology. It is a valu- able report in many ways, not the least in being a model which individuals or groups of observers may follow with great profit. The Bulletin can be of no greater service to its readers than by giving publicity to such reports. Permission has been secured from President W. P. Morgan and Mr. Finley to quote extensively from the report, and portions relating to nesting observations have been selected. It is hoped that excerpts thus presented will not lose unduly by removal from their context. Mr. Finley and the institution he represents are to be congratulated upon this practical bit of nature study. The editor has been informed that Mr. Finley and his assist- ants have made similar studies of the bird life on the campus at Macomb during the past season, and with even greater success than during the preceding year. It is hoped that these studies will be published and available for distribution by spring, 1918. Since September, 1917, Mr. Finley has been serving on the staff of Lincoln School of the Teachers' College at Columbia University. The Campus "For many years prior to 1900, the campus had been a pasture, the soil being too poor for profitable cultivation. The central part, where the main buildings now stand, was a brickyard and the repeated removal of the soil exposed a yellow clay subsoil which had to be enriched before it would even grow bluegrass. The removal of the soil was accompanied by the removal of all vegetation so that the shrubbery and trees on most of the campus have been planted there in the last fifteen years. Beginning at the south- east corner of the campus and running across it in a northwest direction is a deep, well-wooded ravine. In this ravine are many large native trees among which are white oaks, red oaks, black oaks, burr oaks, laurel oaks, shellbark hickories, river birches, basswoods and others. Among these trees
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