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Title
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Sidney, Banner County, Scotts Bluff, July 30-Aug. 9, 1911
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Date
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July 30-Aug. 9, 1911
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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27126
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Transcription
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2 Arriving at Sidney in the early afternoon, and having the time at our disposal until midnight, we undertook short trips into the neighboring county. The botanists went northwest, while Dr. Wolcott and I went northeast and devoted our attention to insect collecting. Several species of Eleodes were found, and the first Solpugids of the trip. These anomalous creatures were very interesting to me, as I had never before seen them, and the Doctor’s advice not to pick them up with my fingers was entirely unneccessary; their plainly visible jaws and their pugnacious attitude when disturbed were sufficient deterrents in themselves, and my captures were made with circumspection and tweezers. The bite of these animals is said to be extremely irritating, and is doubtless worse than that of any spider found in Nebraska, though probably not in any sense dangerous. From the region north of Sidney we cut across town to the region south, where Lodge Pole Creek was visible, and this we followed for a mile or two. **Birds observed at Sidney** • Dove; Western nighthawk; Desert horned lark; Kingbird; Arkansas flycatcher; Western meadowlark; Brewer blackbird; Western chipping sparrow; Western lark sparrow; Western goldfinch; Lark bunting; Cliff swallow; Yellow warbler; Brown thrasher **Butterflies** • Danias archippus; Colias philodice; Lycaena melissa Aside from these notes, there is little to record for Sidney , but the short trips we made there furnished an interesting check on other collecting in the plains region. The similarity of its forms wherever we studied conditions was most striking.
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Rights
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