THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 90. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXVII MARCH, 1915. NO. I 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXVII. NEW SERIES VOL. XXII. "~' 



JUNE BIRDS OF LARAMIE, WYOMING. 



(The Story of a Vacation Trip.) 



by w. f. henninger 



My long- desired vacation had come. For some time I had 

 been looking for a new ornithological field, for one tires of 

 sameness, besides I wished to study some species in nature 

 in order to be able to describe them accurately in my work. 

 So I had finally concluded to go to Wyoming and try my 

 luck there. A careful perusal of Professors Knight's '" Birds 

 of Wyoming " convinced me that some work might be done 

 there and some new observations might be made. May 26 

 found me on the train to Chicago where I spent a few de- 

 lightful hours with my friend Eifrig and the next day I was 

 speeding across the plains of Illinois, Iowa, and Nebraska. 



As the train left North Platte on the morning of the 28th 

 and stopped at some smaller stations I saw the Western 

 Meadowlark and heard for the first time its beautiful liquid 

 note. Along the Platte river was a Great Blue Heron, a 

 flock of wild ducks and a few Sandpipers, which I could not 

 identify. Cheyenne was reached at 3 p. m., but it was on a 

 later visit to this place on June 11th that I could see the 

 Bronzed G-rackle and the Red-headed Woodpecker of true 

 Eastern species. The real climb towards the divide then 



