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Red Breasted Nuthatch 

 Chickadee (B) 

 Golden Crowned Kinglet 

 Ruby Crowned Kinglet 

 Wood Thrush (B) 

 Wilson Thrush (B) 

 Hermit Thrush 

 American Robin (B) 

 Blue Bird (B) 



Earl A. Wheeler. 



RARE AND UNCOMMON BIRDS 

 Lawrence County, Mo. Notes 



By Johnson Neff 



Down here in Southwest Missouri, 

 where it seems that hills and prairies 

 merge together, we sometimes find-un- 

 common birds, sometimes rare ones in 

 our state, many times rarer to our vi- 

 cinity. A partial list follows: 



11. Red-throated Loon. Very un- 

 common visitant. One bird was ob- 

 served by myself on a large body of 

 water, eleven miles east and south of 

 Marionville, on May 11th, 1918. 



74. Least Tern, August 10th, 1917. 



77. Black Tern, August 10th, 1917. 



My first and last acquaintance with 

 these birds. The birds were flying 

 over the pond mentioned above and 

 these were in all probably 80 individu- 

 als. 



125. White Pelicans, Pall of 1919. 



For several weeks during September 

 and October reports came to me from 

 people living about ten miles south oi 

 a flock of Pelicans which were stray- 

 ing first to the river then back to the 

 pond in the hill regions. But it was 

 not my good fortune to be able to see 

 the birds. 



137. Bald-pate. Fall 1919. First 

 time I had ever been lucky enough to 

 collect a specimen of this common 

 duck. Was found feeding in a puddle 

 of water in a wheat field. 



169. Snow Goose. (Lesser Snow 

 Goose in all probability. — Ed.). Have 

 seen several geese fiying over which 



are called Snow Geese, but a neighbor 

 was lucky enough to kill one out of a 

 flock of ten which were feeding on 

 his wheat field in October 1919. 



181. Trumpeter Swan. (Possibly 

 Whistling Swan. — Ed.). A very ob- 

 servant farmer living on the James 

 River about 35 miles south reported a 

 Swan, or rather a pair of Swans which 

 remained on the river for weeks in 

 the fall of 1917. After looking through 

 some bird books to which he had ac- 

 cess he named it a Trumpeter, al- 

 though one more reliable might have 

 been able to distinguish which it was, 

 this species or the Whistling Swan. 



196. American Egret. 



The "Snowy Egret" is becoming 

 more and more common here on the 

 rivers, as a few years ago none were 

 seen. I also saw one specimen sitting 

 on a log in the Missouri River, East 

 of Macon on September 6th, 1918, as 

 I passed on a Wabash train. 



212. Virginia Rail. Found one 

 specimen with a broken leg, in 1910. 



206. Sandhill Crane. I saw one 

 specimen of the Sandhill Crane near 

 the James River in July 1914. It was 

 sailing in circles high over the hills 

 but with a good field glass I was able 

 to identify it. For weeks one lone 

 Crane fed about over the prairies 

 within" sight of Marionville during 

 December and January, 1919 and 1920, 

 until the owners of the farm it fre- 

 quented heard some town hunters 

 planning to kill it. He and his neigh- 

 bors tried to scare the bird a'way but 

 could not so at last killed the bird to 

 save it, and it is now in the hands of 

 an expert taxidermist. 



228. Woodcock. Possibly once a 

 year I hear from various sources that 

 Woodcock have been killed, but I 

 have never found any very reliable 

 traces. Have seen many Woodcock in 

 Wisconsin but none here. 



367. Short-Eared Owl. My only 



