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circling around me reminding me in thei-r flight sometimes of 

 the Woodcock and then again of the Teal. Truly their nest 

 was there somewhere in this swampy overflowed tract of 

 several hundred acres but it was futile to attempt to find it. 

 Besides had not Milton S. Ray hunted for years before he 

 found the nest, and had not Dawson despaired of ever finding 

 it? Why should T be more fcrtunate? 



The next few days I spent in preparing specimens, for the 

 State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Miss Rose Bird 

 Maley, had graciously granted me a permit for scientific col- 

 lecting. And then I had to visit the Museum of the Wy- 

 oming University and there I surely met Wyoming's grand 



Nest and eggs of Yellow-headed Blackbird. 

 Laramie, Wyo., June 6, 1914. 



old man in the person of Professor W. PI. Reed, congenial 

 and cou-rteous in every way. It was a pleasure to listen to 

 his stories of his participation in all of the Indian wars in this 

 western region, or of his success in finding fossils and, sur- 

 rounded by the monstrous Dinosaurs, to hear how he found 

 the prehistoric Camel not larger than a Dachshund, how he 

 discovered the only three heads of the Trice-ratops, the credit 

 for which h'e never sfot in the works of those who us,!d his 



