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IMr. Wichmann said I yelled like an Arapahoe on the warpath, 

 but that is sheer calumny — ! It took only a little time to cut 

 away the tules, to get the camera in position and I brought 

 away as perfect a picture as was ever taken of the nest and 

 eggs of this bird. What a triumph ! Where even an ex- 

 pert like Dawson had failed, I a mere novice in this region, 

 had been successful ! I was still patting myself in great con- 

 ceit when another winged fo-rm came across the horizon, ah ! 



Ground iiest aud eggs of Brewer's Blackbird. 

 Carroll Lakes, Wyo., June 12', 1914. 



ni)^ old friend from the Black Channel marshes of Sandusky, 

 the Black Tern, and then another. Well ! Prof. Knight had 

 said that it was exceedingly rare in Wyoming as a migrant, 

 here it was present in the breeding saason, twenty of them, 

 and a little later I found one of the eggs laid on a piece of 

 floating but compact cowdung, a new record for the state of 

 Wyoming. We splashed on through the watery meadows. 

 Now a fine Cinnamon Teal attracted my attention, but here 

 luck failed us, for I could not find the nest. Pintails and 

 Shovellers were plentiful, but their nests were swampsd. 

 At last among the willows we found a colony of Brewer's 



