Nov. 2: Chicago. would let me go up to the scientific collections. However, I put in full time till the closing hour (4:30) looking at the mounted stuff in the public exhibition halls. And there is an amazing amount of it - I got over only part of the birds and mammals. The museum was thronged with people; and a public lecture (on the Bird Antarctic Exp.) was jammed, so that I was able to get only a glimpse of the screen. A mounted adult California Condor (in a group) with wings spread showed the white under the wings to be much narrower than in a Brooks drawing I recall. As I walked across from the Stevens Hotel to the Field Museum, I skirted a tract of shrubbery, in which I got very close view of 2 Tree Sparrows and a Slate-colored Junco. Large numbers of Herring Gulls were flying high overhead into, or quartering, the strong cold north wind, against a leaden sky. No snow on foot, tho.