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of Nebraska State Museum number 
(UNSM #ZM-12341). Dr. Paul A. 
Johnsgard took this specimen with 
him to the Field Museum of Natural 
History to determine its subspecies 
by using their comparative collec¬ 
tions. On the basis of size, frontal 
process shape, head coloration and 
range he identified the specimen as 
the interior race of the Common 
Eider, S. m. sedentaria, established 
by Snyder in 1941 (Occ. Pap. Roy. 
Ontario Mus. Zool, no. 6). 
The interior race of the Common 
Eider breeds in Hudson Bay from 
Cape Fullerton south into James 
Bay. As the most southern, central 
breeding race of the Common Eider, 
it is the race most likely to be re¬ 
corded inland. This specimen, how¬ 
ever, constitutes the first published 
record of this subspecies in the cen¬ 
tral United States as well as the 
first record of the species for Ne¬ 
braska. The American Ornitholo¬ 
gist’s Checklist of North American 
Birds lists S. m. sedentaria as 
‘‘casual southward (one record, Ni¬ 
agara River)”. A specimen of S. m. 
1968 NEBRASKA 
Compiled by Dr. 
Data on the 1968 Nesting Season 
in Nebraska were received from 33 
observers, reporting on 80 species 
from 21 counties. Counties in the 
tabulation are listed in a west to 
east order, with the northernmost 
of approximately equal locations 
given first. N represents nests ob¬ 
served; Y represents young observed; 
F represents birds observed carry¬ 
ing food; E represents eggs, NM 
represents birds observed carrying 
nesting materials; (all from NOU 
Nesting Report forms), and num¬ 
bers represent Nest Record Cards. 
Sixty nine species were reported on 
1,516 North Amrican Nest Record 
Cards. 
nigra was taken in the Missouri 
River bottoms near Sioux City, Iowa 
(P. Dumont, Wilson Bull., 46:203, 
1934). As Dumont states, this speci¬ 
men might be claimed as Nebraskan, 
instead of Iowan as it was in his 
note. 
Somateria mollissima has been re¬ 
corded in the adjacent states of; 
South Dakota (S. S. Vishner Auk, 
29:535, 1912); Colorado (A. H. Fel- 
ger. Auk, 26:282, 1909; W. H. 
Bergtold, Auk, 49:346, 1932); and 
Kansas (F. H. Snow, Auk, 9:198, 
1892). Although the South Dakota 
record is for S. m. borealis, the Colo¬ 
rado records for S. m. dresseri, and 
Kansas record for S. m. nigra as is 
the Iowa record mentioned earlier, 
all of these records were published 
before the addition of S. m. sedent¬ 
aria as a new subspecies in 1941. 
Additional inland U. S. records of 
the species are from Illinois, Michi¬ 
gan, Minnesota, North Dakota, and 
Montana. 
— D. Jean Tate, Cornell Laboratory 
of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York. 
NESTING SURVEY 
Esther V. Bennett 
The counties (with column num¬ 
bers on the tabulation shown in 
parentheses) and the contributors 
were: Adams (11) Mrs. Ford 
Graham, Carrie C. Hansen, Geral¬ 
dine A. Heartwell, Mrs. William 
Helzer, Mrs. Clifford Kennedy, Mrs. 
Doris Mahoney, Mrs. O. W. Ritchey, 
Elwin Turner, Harold Turner, Ber¬ 
nice Welch; Cass (21) Mrs. Sigvald 
Jensen; Clay (12) Elden and Ruth 
Percival; Custer (7) Mrs. Eva Mae 
Kieborz; Dawes (1) Doris Gates, 
Leta M. Neeland; Dawson (8) Ray 
S. Wycoff; Dodge (15) Larry C. 
Holcomb; Douglas (19) R. G. 
Cortelyou, Larry C. Holcomb, 
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