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Title
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Scottsbluff Narratives, 1937_022
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Alternative Title
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1937 Scottsbluff Narratives
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Date
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1937
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Creator
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Frank Shoemaker
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Description
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Frank Shoemaker - Sandhills Narratives
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Identifier
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321301
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Transcription
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Late in the afternoon we found dead, a very beautiful bird: the violet-green swallow. I tried tonight to make of it a presentable skin, but its state would not permit. However, I made measurements and preserved color notes, which are given here: Violet-green Swallow. -A dead specimen, found west of Gering, Nebr., June 7. 1937, near U. F. tracks. A blood clot on the right frontal area of the skull indicates rather conclusively that the bird died by reason of striking a telegraph wire. Measurements: Length: bill to tip of tail, 5.5 inches bill to tip of wings, 6 inches Extent: 11.75 inches Wing: 4.5 inches Tail: 1.75 inches Bill: tip to fronts, 3/16 inch along gape, 7/16 inch Color notes: Bill: black Feet: brownish Lores, throat, breast, belly: white; almost confluent white across base of rump. Back, and washing shoulders, and onto upper wings: bright green Rump: violet-purple Head: black; obscurely brownish toward nape Two middle tail-feathers (shortest): white My first sight of this species was on June 12, 1904, in Macleay Park at Portland, Oregon. Since then I have encountered it often, not only at many places in the Rocky Mountains, but in all of the Nebraska counties bordering the Wyoming state line. But today is the first time I have ever had a specimen in my hand. We found a nest of the magpie, a half-wagonload of twigs in a clump of willows; four young birds were perched upon the branches about it. We caught three of the four, and dearly hoped for a photograph. But they were three days too old, and would not stay put. They fought
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Rights
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