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habits; descr.). — Hatch, Notes Birds Minnesota, 1892, 167, 463 (Minnesota; 

 hist.; descr.). — Nutting, Bull. Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa, ii, 1893, 267 

 (Lower Saskatchewan River). — Ogilvie-Grant, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xxii, 

 1893, 78, part (Rockford and Richland Counties, 111.; Iowa; Moody County, 

 S. Dak.). — Brewster, Auk, xii, 1895, 99, pi. 2 (descr. and colored pi. of rufescent 

 color variety; 4 spec, of unknown locality) ; Mem. Nuttall Orn. Club, No. 

 4, 1906, 171 (Cambridge, Mass.; liberated in 1885).— Jones, Auk, xii, 1895, 236 

 in table (Ohio; migr.) ; Birds Ohio, Rev. Cat., 1903, 221 (Ohio, extinct).— 

 Ulrey and Wallace, Proc. Indiana Acad. Sci., 1895, 151 (Wabash, Ind.). — 

 Cooke, Colorado State Agr. Coll. Bull. 44, 1898, 159 (e. Colorado; rare and 

 local summer visitant) ; Bull. 56, 1900, 202 (Wyoming, resident breeding). — 

 Butler, Rep. State Geol. Indiana for 1897 (1898), 755 (Indiana; reported as 

 occurring "within recent years in Newton, Stark, Carroll, Steuben, Boone, 

 Knox, Clinton, Wabash, Lake, Laporte, Benton, Allen, De Kalb, and Noble 

 counties").— Lantz, Trans. Kansas Acad. Sci., 1896-97 (1899), 254 (Kansas; 

 common; formerly abundant). — Nash, Check List Birds Ontario, 1900, 26 

 (Ontario; now extinct). — Dwight, Auk, xvii, 1900, 163 (molt). — Macoun, Cat. 

 Can. Birds, 1900, 210 (Ontario and Manitoba).— Bailey, Handb. Birds Western 

 United States, 1902, 130 (descr.; distr.). — Woodcock, Oregon Agr. Exp. Stat. 

 Bull. 68, 1902, 27 (Dayton, Oreg., Oct., 1892).— Kumlien and Hollister, Bull. 

 Wisconsin Nat. Hist. Soc, iii, 1903, 57 (Wisconsin; habits). — Dawson, Birds 

 Ohio, 1903, 435, pi. 52, 652 (Ohio; descr.; extinct). — Snow, Cat. Birds Kansas, 

 ed. 5, 1903, 15 (Kansas; common; formerly abundant). — [Nash], Check List 

 Vert. Ontario: Birds, 1905, 35 (Ontario; extinct). — Judd, U. S. Biol. Surv. 

 Bull. 24, 1905, 10-18 (range, food, economic value, etc.). — Wilson, Wils. Bull., 

 xviii, 1906, 3 (Scott County, Iowa, common resident). — Fleming, Auk, xxiv, 



1907, 87 (Toronto; doubtful).— Widmann, Birds Missouri, 1907, 81 (once com- 

 mon, now rare). — Woodruff, Chicago Acad. Sci. Bull., vi, 1907, 84 (vicinity 

 of Chicago, formerly abundant, now rare). — Roberts, in Wilcox, Hist. Becker 

 County, Minn., 1907, 170 (nearly all parts of Minnesota). — Anderson, Proc. 

 Davenport Acad. Sci., xi, 1907, 233 (Iowa; habits). — Beyer, Allison, and 

 Kopman, Auk, XXV, 1908, 439, in text (w. Louisiana). — Reagan, Auk, xxv, 



1908, 464 (Rosebud Reservation, S. Dak.). — Macoun and Macoun, Cat. Can. 

 Birds, ed. 2, 1909, 229 (Hamilton Beach, Ontario; Manitoba).— Visher, Auk, 

 xxvi, 1909, 147 (w. South Dakota; west to Kadoka) ; xxviii, 1911, 10 (Harding 

 County, S. Dak., fairly abundant). — Cooke, Auk, xxvi, 1909, 411 (e. Colorado; 

 breeds west to Yuma, Wray County; also near Barr). — Cory, Publ. Field Mus. 

 Nat. Hist., i, 131, 1909, 439 (Illinois; Wisconsin).— Hess, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 

 22 (c. Illinois; eggs). — Wood and Tinker, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 131 (Michigan; 

 formerly common near Ann Arbor; Fourmile Lake). — Ferry, Auk, xxvii, 1910, 

 198 (Quill Lake, Saskatchewan; breeds).— Howell (A.H.), U. S. Biol. Surv. 

 Bull. 38, 1911, 34 (no.w mostly extirpated in Arkansas). — Land, Auk, xxix, 

 1912, 239, in text (Minnesota; eaten by gyrfalcon) ; xxxviii, 1921, 112 (8 miles 

 w. of Fayetteville, Ark., 1 spec. Nov. 15, 1919). — Sclater, Hist. Birds Colorado, 

 1912, l.SO (Colorado; uncommon in ne. part). — Isely, Auk, xxix, 1912, 28 

 (Sedgwick County, Kans. ; formerly abundant but "not been seen for many 

 years"). — Zimmer, Proc. Nebraska Orn. Union, v, pt. 5, 1913, 70 (Nebraska; 

 Thomas County; nests and young). — Jensen, Auk, xxxv, 1918, 344 (Wahpeton, 

 N. Dak., breeding) .—Horsbaugh, Ibis, 1918, 483 (Buffalo Lake, Alberta, 

 1 spec, Dec. 26, 1914).— Taverner, Auk, xxxvi, 1919, 13 (near Red Deer, 

 Alberta, Dec. 26, 1914) ; Ottawa Nat., xxxii, 1919, 161 (Shoal Lake, Manitoba; 

 first nests found in 1899; increasing); Birds W. Canada, 1926, 171, pi. 23A, 



