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18. Gallinula galeata. Florida Gallinule. Identified twice on a small 

 lake on the Corkscrew marsh. 



19. Colinus virginianus floridanus. Florida Bob-white. Abundant 

 about Immokalee and through the higher and more open pine woods. 

 Nesting in late March and early April. I was told of a nest with 13 

 eggs being found at Immokalee the last week of March. 



20. Meleagris gallopavo osceola. Florida Turkey. A common resi- 

 dent throughout the interior of Lee County and should remain so for 

 years to come. I saw many, thanks largely to the dogs that were nearly 

 always along. Late on the afternoon of April 18th as we were working 

 along an open glade bordering a cypress swamp the dog began to nose 

 excitedly in the grass. Suddenly up popped half a dozen little brown 

 cannon-balls, quail I thought, but when they alighted in some cypress 

 saplings I saw at once they were young Turkeys. The old hen, hard 

 pressed, soon rose from the grass and sailed away across the tops of the 

 cypress trees. More youngsters kept popping up until there were eleven 

 sitting about in the saplings some twelve or fifteen feet up. Soon one 

 gave a peculiar little * ' quit, ' ' and then to my utter astonishment flew 

 straight away over the tops of the cypress trees after the old hen, and 

 one by one the rest followed. My guide pronounced them to be about 

 two weeks old and that seemed to me about correct. A few days later 

 the dog ran onto another old hen w ith young but a few hours old, and we 

 had some trouble in keeping them from coming to harm. The early 

 sjiring of 1913 caused some of the Turkeys to begin nesting the forepart 

 of March. In ordinary years deposition of eggs does not begin much 

 before April 1st. 



21. Zenaidura macroura carolinensis. Mourning Dove. Observed 

 occasionally in the pine woods. Not common. 



22. ChaemepeJia passerina terrestris. Ground Dove. Common about 

 Immokalee, and seen occasionally in the pine woods. One nest found 

 April 4th with two fresh eggs. 



23. Cathartes aura septentrionalis. Turkey Vulture. Present in con- 

 siderable numbers during the breeding season, but no evidence of nesting 

 found, and it may be that it does not so far south in Florida. 



24. Catharisia uruhu. Black Vulture. Abundant. I found no nests, 

 but saw them mating several times. They are a nuisance hanging around 

 a camp, as it is necessary to keep things pretty well covered to be safe. 



25. Elanoides forficatus. Swallow-tailed Kite. I spent much time 

 looking for the breeding haunts of this species, which is still to be found 

 in certain of the wilder parts of Florida, and was rewarded bj' finding 

 it nesting at two widely separated points, one far down on the. edge of 

 the Big Cypress Swamp, the other near the Ocaloacooehee Slough. It is 

 a bird to be associated with cypress swamps. It loves the broad, open 

 glades that fringe them, and here of a late afternoon you may chance 

 to see them feeding. Gracefully and tirelessly they circle back and 

 forth, chattering as they pass close to one another, and perhaps if the 



