SECOND ANNUAL MEETING 



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lir. — A LIST OF POSSIBLE BREEDERS IN NEBRASKA, BASED OX VARIOUS 

 RECORDS WHICH MIGHT BE TAKEN AS FAIRLY RELIABLE CIRCUMSTANTIAL 

 EVIDENCE TOWARDS ESTABLISHING THEIR RIGHT TO BE PLACED IN THIS LIST, 

 BUT WHICH CANNOT BE GIVEN AT THIS TIME ON ACCOUNT OF LACK OF SPACE 



59. Franklin's Cull. .'iOit. 



120«. Florida Cormorant. 521. 



i:)?,. Dusky Dut-k. 5:^3. 



l.']9. Green-wiu'jed Teak 547. 



141. Cinnamon Teal. 547«. 



149. Lesser Scaup Duck. 554. 



18fi. Glossy Ibis. 566. 



187. ^Yhite-faced Glossy Ibis. 567. 



196. Great White Egret. 578. 



204. Whooping' Crane. 581/. 



215. Little Yellow Raik 583. 



216. Black Rail. 626. 



241. Baird's Sandpiper. 630. 



242. Least Sandpiper. 639. 

 246. Serai-palmated Sand])iper. 646. 

 248. Sanderling-. 647. 

 278. Snowy T^lover. 650. 

 281. Mountain Plover. 657. 

 308rt. Columbian Sharp-tailed 661. 



Grouse. 663m. 



329. Mississippi Kite. 667. 

 337(1. Harlan's Red-tailed Hawk. 



356. Duck Hawk. 680. 



405. Pileated Woodpecker. 684. 



418«. Frosted Poor-will. 6S6. 



420c. Sennett's Xighthawk. 701. 



459. Olive-sided Flycatchei*. 719. 



463. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 749. 



474. Horned Lark (typical). 756. 



484. Canada Jay (484«?). 756w. 



486. American Raven. 761f/, 



487. White-necked Raven. 



Rusty lilackbird. 

 .\merican Crossbill. 

 Pine Siskin; TMne Finch. 

 Henslow's Sj)arrow. 

 Western Henslow's Sparrow. 

 White-crowned Sparrow. 

 White-winged Junco. 

 Slate-colored Junco. 

 Cassin's Sparrow. 

 Dakota Song- Sparrow. 

 Lincoln's Song- Sparrow. 

 I'hiladelphia Yireo. 

 Black-ca])ped Yireo. 

 Worm-eating- Warbler. 

 Orange-crowned Warbler. 

 Tennessee Warbler. 

 Cape May Warbler. 

 Magnolia Warbler. 

 Black-poll Warbler. 

 Sycamore Warbler. 

 Black-throated Green War- 

 bler. 

 Macgillivray's Warbler. 

 Hooded Warbler. 

 Canadian Warbler. 

 Water Ouzel. 

 Bewick's Wren. 

 Ruby-crowned Kinglet. 

 Wilson's Thrush. 

 Willow Thrush. 

 Western Robin. 



A PECULIAR DISEASE OF BIRDS' FEET OBSERVED IX CENTRAL 



NEBRASKA 



ERWIN H. BARBOUR, LINCOLN 



As curator of the State Museum, objects of varied kinds come to the 

 notice of the writer, and there may be found a possible justification 

 for wandering- from one's own field of investig-ation far enough to make 

 mention of certain pathological specimens which may be of interest to 

 the Nebraska Ornithologists' Union. In south central Nebraska there 

 is a dermal affection prevalent among birds, and a presumably similar 

 affliction among rabbits, of a nature so serious as to apparently merit 

 exact and critical investigation by some student. The distressing nature 

 of the malady may be judged of in part by a glance at the fig-iire, while 



