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Ten Days' Bird Study in a Nebraska Swamp, Ira N. Gabrielson 51 



Breeding Birds of a Clay County, Iowa, Farm, Ira N. Gabrielson 69 



Notes on the Spotted Sandpiper, Arthur F. Smith 81 



The Resident Bird Life op the Big Cypress Swamp Region, F. M. Phelps 86 



Editorial 102 



Field Notes: A Two-Story Yellow Warbler's Nest; Particular Weens; 

 CowBiRDS Monopolizing a Red-Eyed Vireo's Nest; The Red Phalaropb 

 in Iowa; Fall Records of the Golden Plover; Some Winter Records 

 from Marshalltown, Iowa; Nesting op the Blue- Winged Warbler 

 IN Northern Illinois ; The Fox Sparrow in Central Illinois ; Notes 

 from Huron, Ohio; Two New Birds for Oberlin, Ohio; A Cannibal 

 Gracele. 



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