Kevisory Notes on he Birds of Nebraska 113 



it to be an immature common loon (G. inimer) after an examina- 

 tion of the specimen. Accordingly, this species is to be stricken 

 from the Nebraska list, as, in fact, it probably will be from most 

 of the other lists of the United States, for the real winter homo 

 of this bird is in Asia and no authentic records of G. arctica for 

 this county seem to exist. 



Water Turkey (Anhinga anhinga (Linnaeus)). — This bird is 

 now definitely to be added to the Nebraska list, as on September 

 20, 1913, Mr. Oscar Blevins caught one with a fish spear on the 

 Loup river in Buffalo County, on the Josh Woods ranch. It was 

 mounted by the Northwestern School of Taxidermy at Omaha, and 

 it as present in the B. J. Olsen collection at Kearney. 



Red-legged Black Duck (^Anas rubripes ruhripes (Brewster)). — 

 The decision that this is a valid subspecies (cf. Oberholser, Auk, 

 XXXIV, pp. 192-194) reinstates it in the Nebraska list on the ba- 

 sis of records already published (cf. Swenk, Auk, XXII, p. 319) 

 as well as several additional unpublished records. 



Glossy Ibis {Plegadis falcinellns (Linnaeus)). — This bird was 

 included in Prof. Bruner's list (1896) and in subsequent lists on 

 the strength of a specimen taken near Omaha, now in the Univer- 

 sity Museum, and later two specimens in the L. Sessions collection, 

 taken at Norfolk, were also referred to this species. An examin- 

 ation of all three of these specimens shows them to be immature 

 birds, and, as Dr. Oberholser informs me, neither he nor Mr. Ridg- 

 way have been able to discover any character by which the imma- 

 ture birds of P. falcinellns and P. guarauna can be distinguished, 

 and as the latter species has several unquestionable Nebraska rec- 

 ords, the propriety of dropping the glossy ibis as a Nebraska bird 

 is evident. 



White-faced Glossy Ibis (Plegadis guarauna (Linnaeus)). — About 

 the middle of May, 1916, several white-faced glossy ibises appeared 

 at the large lagoon near Inland, Clay County, Nebraska. On June 4, 

 Messrs. A. M. Brooking and Edward Wallace set out to secure a 

 pair of these birds, and, while attempting to approach them, met 

 a farmer who had just driven out into the lagoon in his buggy and 

 who reported that he had flushed an ibis from a nest containing 

 four eggs. The nest was located by Brooking and Wallace and the 

 bird was observed to return to it. The nest and eggs were then 

 collected, and later both the female and male birds were also taken. 

 This is the first record of the breeding of this bird in the state. 



Wood Ibis (Mycteria americana (Linnaeus)). — There have been 

 several reports of the seeing or shooting of wood ibises in Ne- 

 braska, but most of these have been alone insufficient to definitely 

 place the bird on the state list. In April, 1885, Mr. William Towns- 

 ley shot one of these birds in Hamilton County, Nebraska, on Sec- 



