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Title: The Wilson bulletin
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Wilson Ornithological Society Wilson Ornithological Club Nebraska Ornithologists' Union
Subjects: Ornithology Birds
Publisher: Columbus, OH : Wilson Ornithological Society
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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iousflute-like note. Now they were swimming gracefully, nowgathering food with a continuous nodding of the head, againstalking along the shore eyeing everything with suspicion andthen disappearing. I watch id them for hours. When allhad disappeared I walked ahead and here they were again Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 239 circling around me reminding me in thei-r flight sometimes ofthe Woodcock and then again of the Teal. Truly their nestwas there somewhere in this swampy overflowed tract ofseveral hundred acres but it was futile to attempt to find it.Besides had not Milton S. Ray hunted for years before hefound the nest, and had not Dawson despaired of ever findingit? Why should T be more fcrtunate? The next few days I spent in preparing specimens, for theState Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Rose BirdMaley, had graciously granted me a permit for scientific col-lecting. And then I had to visit the Museum of the Wy-oming University and there I surely met Wyomings grand
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Nest and eggs of Yellow-headed Blackbird.Laramie, Wyo., June 6, 1914. old man in the person of Professor W. PI. Reed, congenialand cou-rteous in every way. It was a pleasure to listen tohis stories of his participation in all of the Indian wars in thiswestern region, or of his success in finding fossils and, sur-rounded by the monstrous Dinosaurs, to hear how he foundthe prehistoric Camel not larger than a Dachshund, how hediscovered the only three heads of the Trice-ratops, the creditfor which he never sfot in the works of those who us,!d his 330 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 90 material. And how he does know the Mammals and Birds,the Insects and other animals of this region! Truly it was arevelation within itself to listen to this man and many thanksdo I owe him for directing me and helping me in my workwhile out there. The University of Wyoming owes much tohim indeed! June 4th and the 6th found me out on the open prai-rie withRev. Wichmann on a trip to Howells Lakes. As we weredrivin

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