in the Peninsula of Florida. 



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Crow Blackbird. 



Blue Jay. 



Florida Jay. 



Common Dove. 



Ground Dove. 



Wild Turkey. 



Quail. 



Sandhill Crane. 



Crying Bird (or Conrlan). 



Peal's Egret. 



Louisiana Heron. 



White Heron. 



Gi-eat Blue Heron. 



Blue Heron. 



Green Heron. 



Roseate Spoonbill. 



Black-necked Stilt. 



Willet. 



Spotted Sandpiper. 



Long-billed Curlew. 



Clapper Rail. 



Coot. 



Floridan Galhnule. 



Scaup Duck. 



Brown Pelican. 



Floridan Cormorant. 



Water Turkey. 



Quiscalus versicolor. 

 Cyanura cristata. 

 Cyanocitta floridana. 

 Zenaidm'a carolinensis. 

 Chamsepelia passerina. 

 Meleagris gallopavo. 

 Ortyx virginianus. 

 Grus canadensis. 

 Aramus giganteus. 

 Demiegretta pealii. 

 Demiegretta ludoviciana. 

 Herodias egretta. 

 Ardea herodias. 

 Florida cserulea. 

 Butorides virescens. 

 Platalea ajaja. 

 Himantopus nigricoUis, 

 Symphemia semipalraata. 

 Tringo'ides macularius. 

 Numenius longirostris. 

 Rallus crepitans. 

 Fulica americana. 

 Gallinula galeata. 

 Fulix marila. 

 Pelecanus fuscus. 

 Graculus floridanus. 

 Plotus anhinga. 

 Chroicocephalus Philadelphia. 



Bonaparte's Gull. 



I leave Baltimore on the 13th of March. Charleston is my 

 fii'st stopping-place. Here I remain three days, principally to 

 gain information concerning future movements. For this pur- 

 pose I visit Dr. Bachman, who was in Florida last year. He 

 gives most encouraging accounts of the birds, and expresses his 

 wish to go with me ; but having two sons serving in the batteries 

 on Morris Island, is resolved not to leave Charleston until he 

 has seen the inside of Fort Sumter. Four weeks later his wish 

 will be gratified ; but I do not see him again. From Charles- 

 ton I go by railway to Savannah, and there take a steamer for 

 St. John's River. I leave Savannah in the evening. During 

 the night the steamer passes through a vast tract of swampy 

 country, called Romney Marsh, which is intersected by many 

 navigable creeks. These are in some places so narrow that poles 



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