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ern part of the state during early June, but it is not knov n to 

 breed there, though it may rarely do so. Gary collected a^ speci- 

 men west of Warbonnet Canyon, Sioux County, June 14, 1901 

 {Proc. N. O. v.. iii, p. 72) and Mickel one at Kimball, Kimball 

 County, June 8, 1919 (Aiitca, xxxii, p. 75). Both specimens are 

 females, and measure, respectively: Length, 177 and 178; wing, 

 106.5 and 105; tail, 71.5 and 67; culmen, 17 and 16.5; tarsus, 15. 



Wood Peewee Mj/iochaiirs vir<'ns (Linnaeus). 



A common summer resident and breeder east of the 97th me- 

 ridian. At Lincoln it arrives about May 19 and remains imtil 

 September 8. A record from Ashland on May 15, and two froni 

 Omaha, on May 8 and 14, would seem to indicate that the Wood 

 Pewee appears first along the more heavily wooded streams of 

 eastern Nebraska, and then works westwardly to the limits of 

 its range in the state. At Omaha, Lincoln, Beatrice, Peru, Weep- 

 ing Water. Nebraska City and other eastern points it is a com- 

 mon breeder, nesting in June. 



The first state record is that of Aughey, who stated in 1877 

 that there were " a very few of these birds in the timber belts 

 of eastern Nebraska along the Missouri " and recorded a speci- 

 men from Dakota City in June, 1869. Evidently since that time 

 the species has pushed westward along the wooded streams and 

 increased in abundance so that where it was then rare or absent 

 it is now common. Occasionally its " prc-a-uee" may now be 

 heard within the city limits of Lincoln and other cities and towns 

 of eastern Nebraska. 



Western Wood Peewee M i/ioclunics richardHonii riehardsonii 

 (Swains(tn) . 

 West of the 100th meridian in Nebraska this species replaces 

 the eastern M. virens. but the ranges of the two species do not any- 

 where meet. In the Pine Ridge Region it is a common summer 

 i-esideiit, having been reported by every bird student working in 

 that region. In 1900 it arrived at Monroe Canyon in the Pine 

 Ridge May 24 (Crawford, Proc. N. 0. U., ii, p. 77), and in 1908 

 Zimmer collected it at the same place on August 19 and 22, thus 

 indicating migration dates very similar to those of M. virens in 

 eastern Nebraska. In July, 1910, he found it common at Glen. 

 Sioux County, and collected specimens. In Scottsbluff County it 

 is common everywhere in cottonwood groves and was found almost 

 abundantly in the timber along the North Platte River near Henry, 

 June 18, 1916, where several pairs were found with nearly or quite 

 completed nests (^Siccnk. AnWa. xxx, p. 115). Aughey who first 

 recorded the species from the state, stated in 1877 that it was 

 " frequently seen wherever there is a woodland or timber-skirted 

 streams in western Nebraska," and recorded it from Sidney and 

 from " Wood River," meaning probably the head-waters of that 



