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1 8. (597). Gidraca cceridea lazula {Wesson) . Western Blue Gros- 



beak. 

 The Blue Grosbeak was listed by Allen (White's Geol. of Iowa, 

 1870, ii, p. 422). A rare straggler in Wisconsin, probably the 

 Eastern variety, was taken at lyake Koshkonong, Milwaukee, 

 etc. (Birds of Wis., p. 102). In Nebraska, "over the entire state, 

 locally common summer resident and breeder . . . less common 

 [eastern Nebraska], Grand Island, Red Cloud, Beatrice, Omaha 

 and Lincoln (Rev. Birds Neb. p. 91). 



Family TANAGRID^. Tanagers. 



19. 607. Pii'a7iga hidovicia7ia [Wilson). Louisiana Tanager. 



The Louisiana Tanager was reported by Thomas Say from 

 Engineers' Cantonment in 1819-20 (Long's Exp., i, p. 263). 

 " Common summer resident in northwest Nebraska" (Rev. Bds. 

 Neb., 1904, p. 93). "Straggles eastward in migration to the 

 Atlantic states " (Bailey, Bds. Wn. U. S., p. 379). " During the 

 latter part of May, 1877, 1'hure Kumlien found this species nest- 

 ing in Jefferson county [Wisconsin]. Nest, eggs and parents were 

 secured and are now preserved in the museum of the State Uni- 

 versity at Madison ... A second male was procured the next 

 June (1878); and in July, 1891, another, also an adult male, was 

 shot in the same locality by L. Kumlien" (Bds. of Wis, p. 103). 



Family MNIOTILTID^. Wood Warblers. 



20. (670). Dendroica kirtla?idi (Baird). Kirtland Warbler. 

 This is one of the rarest species of North American Warblers. 



Frank M. Chapman (Auk, xv, 1898, pp. 289-93, ^"<^^ ^vi, 1899, 

 p. 80) records the total number of specimens taken as 75, — in 

 Bahamas, 55; in the United States, 20. " Has been taken in the 

 following states: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois (Winnebago and Cook 

 counties), Missouri (St. Louis county), Minnesota (Minneapolis), 

 Wisconsin (Racine), Michigan (Ann Arbor), Virginia and South 

 Carolina." See "The Migration Route of Kirtland's Warbler," 

 by Chas. C. Adams. Bull. Mich. Ornith. Club, Vol. V, pp. 14-21, 

 March, 1904. 



Geo. H. Berry writes: " In Linn county I found a dead War- 

 bler (male, I think) that as near as I could, I identified as this 



