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Ocaloacoochee Slough. It was about 75 feet up in a big pine. Unfor- 

 tunately a cattleman, who chanced to take dinner with us near the spot, 

 had shot the female about three weeks previous. Her body lying under 

 the tree was sufficiently preserved to make certain of the identity. 



28. Buteo lineatus alleni. Florida Eed-shouldered Hawk. By far 

 the most abundant of the hawks. Fully 20 nests were seen and no 

 especial effort made to find them. Seven which I examined had either 

 two eggs or two young, not a single one three. The birds nest either 

 in pine or cypress, and where available use large quantities of Spanish 

 moss. Nesting dates: March 15th incubated eggs, April 7th eggs far 

 advanced in incubation, April 3rd half -grown young. 



29. Buteo hrachyurus. Short-tailed Hawk. Eare. Found breeding 

 by Baynard in February, 1912. 



30. Haliocetus leucocephalus leucocephalus. Bald Eagle. There was 

 one large nest in a pine standing at the edge of the Corkscrew marsh. 

 As breeding begins in November, the young had already left. 



31. Falco sparverius paulus. Florida Sparrow Hawk. Moderately 

 common resident of the pine woods and hammocks. 



32. Polyborus cheriway. Audubon's Caracara. Nowhere common. 

 It prefers the more open country and the palmetto hammocks, this tree 

 being its favorite nesting site. I found a nest on April 5th about 50 

 feet up in a pine, containing two half-grown young. Green reported 

 seeing two young just out of the nest at the edge of a palmetto ham- 

 mock April 15th. 



33. Fandion haliaetus carolinensis. Osprey. There were two occu- 

 pied nests in the Corkscrew cypress swamp. One was a huge affair 

 planted squarely on the top of a limbless cypress stub, 60 feet up. At 

 both nests the birds were incubating eggs the third week in March and 

 were very noisy as long as we remained in the vicinity. 



34. Strix varia alleni, Florida Barred Owl. Abundant. Their nightly 

 serenades were one of the most interesting features of camp life. On 

 March 16th, while exploring a little cypress head, I found a young one 

 about 15 feet up in a sapling. He could get about the limbs and work 

 from tree to tree too lively for me and I tried in vain to catch him. 

 During the proceedings the mother came up close, ruffling her plumage 

 and clicking her bill savagely. On the above basis it would seem that 

 nesting begins early in January. 



35. Otus asio floridanus. Florida Screech Owl. Apparently not very 

 common. Heard two or three times about hammocks. 



36. Bubo virginianus virginiamis. Great Horned Owl. A rare resi- 

 dent. Heard once down on the edge of the Big Cypress Swamp. 



37. Speotyto cunicularia floridana. Florida Burrowing Owl. This 

 interesting little Owl is nearing extinction. On the prairie near Immok- 

 alee I could find only four or five pair nesting where formerly it was 

 abundant. The hand of the cattleman is against it. A couple of bur- 



