IOWA BIRD LIFE — XI, 11)41 
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Turkey Vulture in Dickinson County. — -A Turkey Vulture (C*it hartrx 
tiimi nt jih ah ) was shot by J. M. Johnson seven miles southwest of 
Milford on July 1, 1941. The specimen was taken to the Iowa Lake- 
side Laboratory, where it was made into a skin, and added to the Lab- 
oratory collection. So far as known at present this is the first specimen 
for Dickinson County, although Dr. Mary Roberts says that the species 
has been seen here previously.— NOEL J. WILLIAMS, Milford, Iowa. 
Dog Encounters Pheasant. — One evening in August as I was going 
after the cows. Mitzie, my year-old cocker spaniel, went over into the 
cornfield. She started up two cock and two hen Ring-necked Pheasants. 
About a dozen small pheasants were with them. There was one old 
pheasant that stayed in the field, and it started after Mitzie. Mitzie 
stood her ground. The old bird pecked her on the nose, Mitzie howled, 
and then she really made the dust fly in retreat. Her nose bled for 
about an hour. Mitzie still has the scar on her nose- — as well as a lot 
mure respect for pheasants.— PAUL A. PIERCE, Winthrop, Iowa. 
Publications on Iowa Ornithology during 1940. 
Baker. Maurice F. Age Classes of Winter Cover Used by the Eastern 
Bub-white, Colinus V. Virginianus, in Southern Iowa; la. State Coll. 
Jour. Sci., Vol. 15. No. 1, 1940, pp. 3-11. 
'Bird-Lore*. Christmas bird censuses from Iowa, Vol. 42, No. 1, 
1940, supplement pp, 113-115. 
Ellington, Paul L., and Hamerstrom, Frances and F. N., Jr. The 
Great Horned Owl and Its Prey in North-Central United States; la. 
State Coll. Research Bull. 277, Sept., 1940, pp. 757-850. 
Green, Wyman R. Banding of Chimney Swifts (Chart nr/i prfnf/im) 
in the Region of Chattanooga. Tennessee; Bird-Banding, Vol. 11, No. 
2, 1 940, pp. 37-57 (Iowa record on p. 45), 
Haecker, Frederick W. Missouri River Bird Notes for 1939; Nebr. 
Bird Review, Vol. S, No. 1, 1940, pp. 16-18. The 1940 Early Spring 
Migration Along the Missouri River, ihi/L. No. 2, pp. 83-84, 
Horsky, L. O. An Unusual Winter Concentration of Ducks Along 
the Missouri River; Nebr. Bird Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1940. pp. 9-10. 
‘Iowa Bird Life'. 36 articles referring to Iowa birds in Voh 10. 
Leonard, Leora. Doubly Unusual; Nature Notes, Vol. 7 f No. 6, 
1940, p. 162. 
Low, Jessop B. Production of the Redhead CY yrnca nmrrirtina) in 
Iowa; Wilson Bull., Vol. 52, No. 3, 1940, pp. 153-164. 
Mcllhenny, Edward A. An Early Experiment in the Homing Ability 
of Wildfowl; Bird-Banding, Vol. 11, No. 2 , 1940, pp. 58-60 (Iowa 
record on p. 59), 
Sanders, Earl. History and Development of an Experimental Bob- 
white Management Area in Southern Iovva; la. State Coll. Jour. Sci., 
Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 98-100. 
Scott, Thos. G. The Western Burrowing Owl in Clay County, Iowa, 
in 1938; Amer. Midi. Nat., Vol. 24, No. 3, 1940, pp. 585-593. 
Stephens, T. C. The 1938 Longspur Tragedy in Northwest Iowa; 
Proc. Ia. Acad. Sci., Vol. 46, 1939. pp. 383-395 (issued in 1940). 
Struthers, James A. and Dana. Duck Hawks of the Mississippi River 
Bluffs; The Flicker, Vol. 12, No, 3, 1940, pp, 32-33 (references to 
Lansing, Iowa, area). 
Swenk, Myron H, Distribution and Migration of the Chat in Nebraska 
and other Missouri Valley States; Nebr. Bird Review, Vol. 8, No. 1, 
pp. 33-44 (Iowa records on p. 38). 
(The above titles are taken from the Pierce bibliography. An effort 
is made to have the list as complete as possible, but some publications 
are not seen by the compiler. Bibliographical information in regard 
to Iowa^articles in obscure publications will be much appreciated, and 
will be used in future lists.) 
— F. J. P. 
