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On Sunday morning, May 23, while we were at the breakfast 

 table, and extraordinary note called our attention to a Yellow- 

 beaded Blackbird perched on a post of the yard fence. Later in 

 the day another bird of the same kind was observed, and both 

 stayed near the house during the entire day, but after that were 

 not seen. Another pleasure was the repetition of the Black Terns. 

 They had been recorded in 1916, and this spring they were ob- 

 served on May 14 and May 22. The latter day they followed the 

 men working in the fields, often touching the ground to obtain the 

 food they were seeking. 



The Herring Gulls have been observed several times the past 

 season, namely: January 5, May 10, 11 and 12, and June 23, and 

 October. The June record would point to the fact that they were nest- 

 ing near, as there were but two birds observed. The May records 

 were of large numbers, observed in the fields that were being culti- 

 vated. No doubt the birds were gathering food from the fresh 

 earth. 



Last winter was enlivened by continued presence of Redpolls 

 and Cedar Waxwings. The Redpolls have not been in this vicinity 

 for many years and the Waxwings but twice during the last fifteen 

 years. 



George E. Ekblaw. 



Rantoul, 111. 



A FEW INTERESTING SPRING MIGRATION RECORDS 

 FROM LINCOLN, NEBRASKA. 



During the spring of 1917 I was in Lincoln, Nebraska, for a short 

 time on vacation, and while there secured a few interesting migra- 

 tion records for that locality. The most imi)ortant of these are 

 listed below. Most of them are substantiated by specimens, taken 

 at the time, which are deposited in my private collection at Lincoln. 

 Lobipes lobotus (Linnaeus). — Northern Phalarope. 



On May 10, a single female of this species was taken along Oak 

 Creek in the neighborhood of Capital Beach. Wilson Phalaropes 

 {Steganopxis tricolor) were abundant during the whole period of 

 migration as usual, but I saw only the one individual of the pres- 

 ent species. 

 Yircosylva philadelphica (Cassin). — Philadelphia Vireo. 



I secured a female Philadelphia Vireo May 16 in the strip of wood- 

 land bordering Salt Creek between Lincoln and Jamaica. The spe- 

 cies has been observed but rarely in Nebraska and, so far as I 

 know, there are no other specimens from the state extant. 



There has been some diffrence of opinion about the song of this 



