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Wayne. Albert J. Brown. A list of 127 species was obtained 

 from him by Dr. Frank A. Stromsten of the University of Iowa 

 (Melrose). 



Webster. Melvin P. Somes lists 152 species (Fort Dodge). 



Winnebago. R. M. Anderson lists 222 species, mostly observed 

 around Forest City, on the line between Winnebago and Han- 

 cock counties. J. Eugene Law of Pomona, Cal., and M. Earl 

 Halvorsen of Forest City, both of whom collected with the writer 

 for several years in that locality, also furnished many notes. 



Winneshiek . Carsten C. Smith, M.D., lists 185 species from his 

 own notes and from those of Hall Thomas of Decorah. He attrib- 

 utes the scarcity of water birds in this portion of the " driftless" 

 area to the absence of lakes or extensive marshes (Decorah). 



Woodbury. Guy C. Rich, M. D., lists 210 species from a terri- 

 tory included within a 25-mile circle of Sioux City. "This, of 

 course, includes some of Nebraska and South Dakota, but birds 

 found that close to our border may be reasonably expected across 

 a border line, often only marked by a small river or an imagin- 

 ary line." 



Several counties, from which I received no notes personally, 

 have been well covered, in certain groups, at least, by the obser- 

 vations of then resident ornithologists, whose systematic compila- 

 tions were published in The lozca Ornithologist a few years ago. 

 Among such ma}' be mentioned: Btiena Vista (John V. Crone); 

 Fayette (Paul C. Woods); Lyon (Carleton R. Ball); Mahaska (Wm. 

 Alanson Bryan); Marshall {h.. P. Godley); Scott (J. H. Brown); 

 Sioux (Wilmon Newell); Story (Carleton R. Ball, Wm. A. Bryan, 

 and Wilmon Newell). Indebtedness must also be acknowledged 

 to Wm. Alanson Bryan, curator of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop 

 Museum, Honolulu, author of "Birds of Hawaii," and to Wilmon 

 Newell, State Entomologist of Georgia, Atlanta, for helpful sug- 

 gestions. 



