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cgnized the birds as the Eskimo Curlew and both men started 

 toward the place where the birds were last seen. They saw a 

 newly plowed field and made toward it and found the entire 

 flock on the freshly plowed land busily engaged in picking up 

 grubs and insects turned up by the plow. The birds were entirely 

 unsuspicious and permitted the hunters to approach as close as 

 desired. The flock was flushed and each hunter made four shots, 

 obtaining in all about thirty-four of the birds. None of them 

 were saved as specimens. This was written up by Mr. Sandy 

 Griswold in the "Omaha World-Herald"" at the time, but he 

 called the birds "Golden Plover," which they were not. 



Mr. C. \V. Tinker, a hardware merchant of Waco, who used 

 to hunt these birds with Mr. Wheeler in the '70's, saw his last 

 Eskimo Curlews in 1904 or 1905 on the old York county feeding 

 grounds. Mr. Wheeler himself saw his last birds in the spring 

 of 1909 or 1910. when nine of these birds were seen near Nor- 

 folk, Madison county. He was very close to them and positively 

 identified the birds. 



The last records of collected birds for Nebraska were made in 

 the spring of 1911. On March 22, 1911, while Mr. Fred Geiger 

 was shooting ducks near Waco, York county, two of these birds 

 came flying by within gun range and both were shot by him. The 

 birds were identified by an old-time hunter and were then brought 

 to Lincoln and mounted by Mr. August Eiche, in whole collec- 

 tion they are at present, l^oth birds were females, with well de- 

 veloped ovaries. 



On April 20, 1911, while hunting at Clarks, within a mile of the 

 field where the large flock had been seen eleven years before, Mr. 

 Hoagland saw a flock of eight Eskimo Curlews. With little dif- 

 ficulty the entire flock was killed except one bird which made its 

 escape. The birds were brought to Omaha, and Mr. Hoagland, 

 remembering that in spite of almost continual hunting during the 

 open season he had not seen the bird since the large flock eleven 

 years before, or even heard of its being seen, took one of the 

 birds to Mr. Allabaugh, a taxidermist of Omaha, for mounting. 

 Mr. Fred Goodrich, also of Omaha, saw the birds, and when he 

 noted that Mr. Hoagland was about to have one of them mounted 



