. The Wilson bulletin . selecting a certain spot asa center and going away from it in ever widening were coming close together when up went a WilsonsPhalarope and at the same time we spied the nest with 4eggs. What mattered it that a vicious thunder-shower hadcome over from the Sheep Mountains and) drenched us to theskin, the glorious sun and the brisk wind would dry thatagain. Here was a streak of luck and the pent up anticipa-tion at last realized had to explode in a cry of exultant joy — Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 233 IMr. Wichmann said I yelled like an Arapahoe on the war
. The Wilson bulletin . selecting a certain spot asa center and going away from it in ever widening were coming close together when up went a WilsonsPhalarope and at the same time we spied the nest with 4eggs. What mattered it that a vicious thunder-shower hadcome over from the Sheep Mountains and) drenched us to theskin, the glorious sun and the brisk wind would dry thatagain. Here was a streak of luck and the pent up anticipa-tion at last realized had to explode in a cry of exultant joy — Henninger — June Birds of Laramie 233 IMr. Wichmann said I yelled like an Arapahoe on the warpath,but that is sheer calumny—! It took only a little time to cutaway the tules, to get the camera in position and I broughtaway as perfect a picture as was ever taken of the nest andeggs 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 Brewers Lakes, Wyo., June 12, 1914. ni)^ old friend from the Black Channel marshes of Sandusky,the Black Tern, and then another. Well! Prof. Knight hadsaid 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 offloating but compact cowdung, a new record for the state ofWyoming. We splashed on through the watery a fine Cinnamon Teal attracted my attention, but hereluck failed us, for I could not find the nest. Pintails andShovellers were plentiful, but their nests were last among the willows we found a colony of Brewers 234 The Wilson Bulletin — No. 90 Blackbirds nests and here I again succeeded in getting aline photo of a groimdnest. We returned to our wagon and on the way I observed aLong-billed Curlew, the only one I saw during my stay. , in 1902, had written that th
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