TlUrU) ANNUAL MKKTING <0 



735a. Parus atritdiiillus septentrionalis (Harris). — Long-tailed Chickadee. 



A common summer resident. 

 761. Merula migratoria (Linn.). — Kobin. Abundant breeder in the canons, 



but scarcer in the liasin, and confined to the brush along streams. 



A VIEW IX THE BAD LANDS 



NOTES OX THE NESTING OF SOME SIOUX COUNTY BIRDS 



M. A. CARRIKER, JR., NEBRASKA CITY 



The extreme northwestern corner of Nebraska, embracing a portion 

 of Sioux and Dawes counties, is an extremely interesting locality to 

 the naturalist, embracing as it does portions of different life zones iu 

 close proximity. As would be expected from such conditions, the bird 

 fauna is exceedingly varied and interesting, and not at all similar to 

 Avhat we have in other portions of the state. 



Nearly every year for a number of j^ears past some one has gone 

 to this locality from the State University and considerable material 

 and data have, as a result, been accvimulated, but at no time had any 

 party spent more than a couple of weeks at one time in the region. 

 On account of this fact. Prof. Lawrence Bruner of the State University 

 determined to place a party here for a considerable length of time 

 during the early summer of 1901. Accordingly Mr. Merritt Gary, of 

 Neligh, Neb., and myself left Lincoln on May 25, accompanied by Pro- 

 fessor Bruner and Dr. K. H. Wolcott, also of the State University, who 

 intended to spend the first week in camp with us. We proceeded to 

 Harrison, the county seat of Sioux County, from, whence we, together 

 with our camp equipage, were driven about ten miles northwest to 



