THE 



WILSON BULLETIN 



NO. 80. 



A QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF ORNITHOLOGY 



VOL. XXIV SEPTEMBER, 1912. NO. 3 



OLD SERIES VOL. XXIV. NEW SERIES VOL. XIX 



A AL\RCH BIRD LIST FROM THE CALOOSA- 



HATCHEE RF\^ER AND LAKE 



OKEECHOBEE. 



BY FRANK M. PHELPS. 



The species appearing in this hst were observed between 

 March 2d and 13th, 1912,' principally on a motor boat trip 

 from Fort Myers to Lake Okeechobee in company with Oscar 

 E. Baynard, the Avarden of the National Association of Au- 

 dubon Societies, who was going into this region to search out 

 rookeries of Egrets, with the view of having them guarded. 



Because of certain points of interest we have included the 

 notes of a one-day trip, taken March 2d, down the Caloosa- 

 hatchee River to Sanibel and Pine Islands, lying in the Gulf 

 just off the river mouth. The primary purpose of this trip 

 was to visit an Eagle's nest on Pine Island, previously known 

 to Baynard, with the view of taking a series of photographs 

 of the big, six weeks' old eaglet, who was its sole occupant. 

 This nest was about fifty feet up in a pine, but the strong 

 wind blowing off the Gulf and lack of space to operate in 

 made photography somewhat difficult. By posing the young- 

 ster on one edge of the nest or a nearby limb and backing out 

 onto a limb on the opposite side, success was finally achieved 

 and several good pictures obtained. 



We started for Lake Okeechobee on the afternoon of the 

 4th, in Baynard's motor boat, " The Egret," towing a canoe 



