96 NEBRASKA ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES 



NOTES FROM I.INCOI-N 



On the 22cl of January, 1900, while out collecting near Lincoln, I saw 

 a small flock of Bronzed Grackles. It was not possible to secure a speci- 

 men but the birds were clearly seen and I am positive of the identifi- 

 cation. 



June 15, 1900, I took a set of twenty-five Quail's eg'g's, of which all 

 but one, a runt, were nearly of the usual size. The eggs vary in meas- 

 urement from 0.89 by 1.14 to 0.95 by 1.26 of an inch, the average being 

 0.93 by 1.19. The runt is 0.65 by 0.77 of an inch. 



I saw Hooded Mergansers nearly every day that I was out toward 

 the lake near Lincoln during the past summer. A brood of about half- 

 grown young was seen August 2, 1900. 



Dnring the winter of 1898, there were large numbers of Pine Finches 

 near Liiicolu. Tliey have been reported but once or twice since. 



J. S. Hunter, Lincoln. 



RREEDING OF THE SNOWY HERON AND SWALLOW-TAILED KITE 



In June, 1895, a pair of Snowy Herons (Ardea (■aiKlidisshiKi Gmelin) 

 bred on Oak Creek, a mile from Salt Lake and about three miles north- 

 west of Lincoln. The nest, which was in the timber, on an over-hanging 

 limb, fifteen feet above the middle of the stream, was discovered by 

 two boys who shot into it, destroying it and the eggs and killing the 

 female. This bird was brought to me to be mounted and is now in 

 my collection. In August of the same year another bird of this species 

 was seen a short distance farther up the ci-eek, which was probably 

 the mate. 



On the 8th of August, 1896. a pair of Swallow-tailed Kites were brought 



to Lincoln by a man who had shot them near Greenwood, where, he 



said, they had been nesting. The male I secured and it is now in my 



collection. The female was taken to the University, where it fell into 



the hands of the Art Department, and after being used as a subject for 



sketching was thrown away. 



August Eiche, Lincoln. 



NASHVILLE WARBLER 



June 11, 1900, while collecting on an island in the Missouri River oppo- 

 site Nebraska City, I shot a female Nashville Warbler with eggs in her 

 ovary which were from 2 mm. to 3 mm. in diameter. The bird flushed 

 from a tangled mat of vegetation, consisting of marsh grass and sedges, 

 bordering a slough and surrounded by swamp willows. The peculiar 

 manner in which a bird flushes when coming from a nest was evident 



