Nebraska Bird Review 
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Bank, Rough-winged, Barn, and 
Cliff Swallows; Purple Martin, Blue 
Jay, Black-billed Magpie, Common 
Crow, Black-capped Chickadee, 
House Wren, Mockingbird, Catbird, 
Brown Thrasher, Robin, Swainson’s 
and Gray-cheeked Thrushes, Eastern 
Bluebird, Loggerhead Shrike, Starl¬ 
ing; Bell’s, Red-eyed, and Warbling 
Vireos; Orange-crowned, Yellow, and 
Myrtle Warblers; Ovenbird, Yellow- 
throat, Yellow-breasted Chat, Ameri¬ 
can Redstart, House Sparrow, Bobo¬ 
link, Eastern and Western Meadow¬ 
larks, Yellow-headed and Redwinged 
Blackbirds, Orchard and Baltimore 
Orioles, Rusty and Brewer’s Black¬ 
birds, Common Grackle, Brown- 
headed Cowbird. 
Cardinal, Black-headed and Blue 
Grosbeaks, Lazuli Bunting, Dickcis- 
sel. Pine Siskin, American Goldfinch, 
Lark Bunting; Grasshopper, Vesper, 
Lark, Tree, Chipping, Clay-colored, 
Field, White-crowned, White-throat¬ 
ed, and Swamp Sparrows. 
An Olive-sided Flycatcher was 
seen near the Experiment Station 
that same day, but after the count, 
and 20 additional species were seen 
in the area within 5 days before or 
after the count (May 13 to 23) : 
Snowy Egret, Pintail, Bufflehead, 
Common Merganser, Sharp-shinned 
and Rough-legged Hawks, Piping 
Plover, Solitary Sandpiper, Willet, 
Baird’s Sandpiper, Dowitcher sp.. 
Stilt Sandpiper, Northern Phalarope; 
Forster’s, Common, and Least Terns; 
Common Nighthawk, Long-billed 
Marsh Wren, Veery, Bullock’s Ori- 
iole. And a Scarlet Tanager had been 
seen May 6. 
NOTES 
CATTLE EGRET. I had a Cattle 
Egret in one of my pastures. We 
first noticed it May ■ 29, 1969. It 
stayed about a week that I know of, 
but I haven’t seen it since (through 
June 29). It fitted Peterson’s de¬ 
scription perfectly. It wasn’t too 
large, looked white with orange pink 
bill, and showed considerable buffy 
brown on head, breast, and back. 
It didn’t have the long, slender neck 
of the Common Egret, but did 
stretch its neck as it darted under 
the cattle while feeding. I saw it 
perched on a cow’s back more than 
once, while the cow was lying down. 
It was funny to watch it duck the 
cow’s switching tail and walk back 
and forth. I saw it perched on a 
post in the water in the middle of 
the pond a few times, also. 
(A September 11, 1965, report of 
Cattle Egret near Holstein was given 
in NBR 34:76. Ed.) 
—Lee Morris, Benedict 
CURVE - BILLED THRASHER. 
On March 22, 1969, I received a 
letter from Mrs. Stanley Neel of 
McCook, Nebraska. She wrote that 
for several weeks there had been a 
bird feeding in their farmyard 
which resembled a Curve-billed 
Thrasher more closely than anything 
she could find in her guide book, 
and she wondered if it would be 
possible for it to be found this far 
from its normal range. From Mrs. 
Neel’s comments about the bird I 
thought she probably was correct in 
her identification, and two days later 
I drove to McCook in the hope of 
seeing it. 
It was a very cold and windy 
morning, and when I arrived at the 
Neel home they said they had not 
seen the bird that morning. After 
looking through a shelter belt we 
returned to the house and continued 
watching through the window. In 
about 30 minutes I noticed a large 
bird in the midst of some House 
Sparrows, all of them feeding where 
some grain had been spilled on the 
ground. The long, decurved bill, red 
eye, grayish brown color, and faint¬ 
ly spotted breast identified the bird 
as a Curve-billed Thrasher, which I 
had often seen in Arizona. 
After satisfying myself as to the 
