AUDUBON JOURNAL 



Sitta Varia Red bellied Nutatch — 

 Not found — 



Gold Wing*^ Wood Pecker — Picus Auratus— 

 PentifuU— 



Black Throated Bunting, Emberiza Americana 

 Not an Individual Met With 



Blue Bird Sylvia Sialis, 

 Scarce, about one pair to each Plantation — Yet Nest- 

 ing in holes of Peach & Apple Trees — 



Orchard Oriole, Oriolus Nutatus — 

 Very aboundant, this Country appears to be chosen 

 by them I found seventeen Nests on M'" Perrie's Plan- 

 tation With Eggs or Young, during Two days Look- 

 ing for them — the Young of Many already flying 

 about Midle June — first brood — Was deceived one 

 day by one imitating the Cry of the Loggerhead 

 Shrieke and followed it a great distance before I 

 found My Mistake; it Kepf^ on the tops of high trees 

 in the forest, a very unusual circumstance, the figure 

 of Willson has the bill Much too Large & Long, the 

 figure of the Egg is also too large 



Great American Shrieke, Lanius exubitor — 

 a few seen during Winter — 



Ruby Crowned Wren — Sylvia Calendula 

 a few during Winter seen Near N. Orleans— 



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