114 The Wilson IJiujotix— No. 10.") 



tion 19. of Township 9, Range 6. It was a young bird, but Mr. 

 Townsley succeeded in mounting it very satisfactorily, and it 7S 

 now in the A. M. Brooking collection at Grand Island College. This, 

 together with other undoubted records of the occurrence of this 

 bird where the specimens were unfortunately not preserved, en- 

 titles it to inclusion in the Nebraska list. 



Ward Great Blue Heron {Ardea heroaias trardi (Ridgway)). — A 

 male specimen of this heron, examined and identified by Dr. Ober- 

 holser, was collected at Curtis, Frontier County, and is now in the 

 Rees Heaton collection at that place. It presents the following 

 measurements: Wing, 506; culmen, 158; depth of bill at bas!\ 

 31.5; tarsus, 203. This form of the great blue heron has not pre- 

 viously been recorded from Nebraska. 



Red Phalarope {Phalaroinis fulicarivs (Linnaeus)). — This bird 

 was included in the 1915 Nebraska list on the basis of the bird 

 supposed to have been shot on a sand bar in the Missouri river 

 below Sioux City in November, 1912, reported by Prof. T. C. Steph- 

 ens (Antea, XXVI, p. 103). The subsequent discovery that the 

 specimen was collected near McCook lake, above Sioux City iu 

 South Dakota, as corrected by Prof. Stephens (Antea, XXVIII, p. 

 92) makes necessary the elimination of this species from the Ne- 

 braska list. 



Wilson Snipe (GaUinago delicata (Ord)). — In the spring of 1915 

 Mr. C. A. Black flushed a Wilson snipe from a grass tuft in a bog 

 near Shafer Lake, in Garden County, Nebraska, and shot it. In 

 the grass tuft he found four eggs, just hatching. The bird, nest 

 and fragments of the eggs are in his collection at Kearney at the 

 present time. 



Northern Long-billed Curlew (Nioncniiis amcricanus occidcutahs 

 (Woodhouse) ). — In the August Eiche collection at Lincoln are five 

 long-billed curlews, all from Nebraska, three of which Dr. Ober- 

 holser has identified as N. a. aviericamis and two as N. a. occi- 

 dcntalis, thus establishing the place of both forms on the Nebraska 

 list. The breeding form is N. a. amcricanus. 



Eastern Mourning Dove (Zenaidura macronra caroliurnsis (Lin- 

 naeus)). — All of the specimens of the mourning doves from Ne- 

 braska seem best referable to the western subspecies, Z. m. mar- 

 gineUa, so, for the present at least, the eastern form had best be 

 dropped from the state list. 



Mississippi Kite (Ictinia mississippicnsis (Wilson)). — The record 

 of the taking of a specimen of this bird in Nebraska has already 

 been published by the late Prof. B. H. Bailey (Antea, XXVII, pp. 

 407-408). 



Western Goshawk (Astu7- grntilis striatiihis (Ridgway)). — Of 

 twenty-seven goshawk records for Nebraska (of which nine were 



