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and to these we furnish special signs free. They are supposed to deal 

 with hunters under the State law prohibiting hunting on posted property. 



Fortunately Winter Park does not contain much of a hunting 

 population and the locality does not attract hunters as winter visitors. 

 So we are rather a bird protective community. 



To be sure, there are some violations of the ordinances in the out- 

 lying districts. It would require at least three wardens with motorcycles 

 constantly on the job to hold the lid on tight, and the local Bird Club 

 has nothing like a sufficient income for such an undertaking. There is 

 no county game warden in the district. So we are under a good deal of 

 a handicap. However, many of our leading men and women are deeply 

 in sympathy with the purpose and are very prompt to give information 

 of violations that come to their personal notice. The Mayor and Council 

 are also friendly to the sanctuary and always ready to follow any sug- 

 gestions from the Bird Club. Our troubles have not come from local 

 sportsmen so much as from school boys, negroes and that class of auto- 

 mobile travelers who always have a gun in reach. The State law pro- 

 hibits shooting on the public roads but you would have to have an 

 officer every hundred yards to catch them. 



However, taking it all in all, our sanctuary has been a great success, 

 of which we have the evidence in the hundreds of quail now to be seen 

 in nearly every part of the town. Bunches on the streets, in the gardens 

 and on the lawns of the residents, mostly very fearless, are a common sight. 

 Old residents tell me that there are more quail in Winter Park this 

 season than they have seen for twenty years. Other game-birds and 

 the song-birds have increased as well. So we are pleased with results 

 thus far, but, at the same time, we never forget that eternal vigilance is 

 necessary to head off the vandal. 



There is no provision in the State law for setting up private game 

 and bird sanctuaries. All efforts for such legislation have thus far 

 failed, but any holder of inclosed lands can protect his lands by posting. 



• • • 

 BIRDS OF THE MAGALLOWAY 



Our camp was at the junction of the Little Magalloway and the 

 Magalloway Rivers, about fifteen miles above the big dam on the Ma- 

 galloway. This dam has made a lake about seventeen miles long, and 

 many of the hardwood trees in the flooded area are still standing. One 

 of the most common and persistent of the bird notes was a new one to 

 me and I was some time in locating the bird; it was the olive-sided fly- 

 catcher, and everywhere I went up and down the river he was always in 

 evidence to the ear if not the eye. The first one I located was prospect- 

 ing for a nesting-site on a dead birch stub which stood in the edge of 

 the water. Within a hundred yards of this stub, beside an old tote-road 

 — in a hole in the bank — I found the daintiest nest of a white-throated 

 sparrow, neatly constructed of grasses and lined with deer-hair! There 

 were two eggs in the nest when I found it, and although I made three 

 other visits to the nest I did not see the eggs again, as Mrs. Whitethroat 

 was always "at home" and on duty. One of the prettiest pictures I 

 have ever seen was that which this little lady presented as she looked 

 straight at me from her deer-hair nest! 



Tree swallows (or stub swallows as the guide called them) were 

 everywhere abundant. Chimney swifts were not uncommon, although 



