A New England Ornithologist 3 



" Our party consisted of Professor Jenks, Fred Jenks and 

 myself. On the way to our real starting- point Fred and I shot 

 several birds, but kept very few. Saw a few gulls and ducks 

 on the way to Savannah, but lost them. Saw plenty of ducks 

 after we passed Cape Hatteras. Our next shooting was at 

 Sand Point on the Indian river. There we got several birds. 

 Among them I remember a mockingbird that Fred got and 

 a Fish Hawk and a Broad-winged Hawk that I got. At Se- 

 bastian Creek I got a Pigeon Hawk and eighteen other birds 

 and Fred got a pair of Carolina Doves and twenty birds. On 

 the way down Indian River we had shot at a number of birds. 

 At Ft. Capron we met Mr. Ober and Mr. Van Buskirck and 

 they went with us to the interior. While at Ft. Capron went 

 gunning several times and shot a bag full each time, but 

 turned nearly all over to Professor Jenks, keeping for myself 

 only the following, all of which were obtained along the river's 

 bank North of Ft. Capron, but within five miles of it. This 

 list is as follows : 



Ft. Capron, Florida, February 11, 1874. 



1. Bahama Honey Creeper {Coereha bahamensis) J'. — (Aside of 

 this record are written the sad words, "lost in mail 1878." Sad, 

 I say, because I want the Club to remember that this is by far 

 the northermost record of this species in the United States, all 

 others being from the Florida Keys, principally Indian Key. This 

 record must be all of 200 miles farther north and thus the credit 

 for the northermost record of this species must go to this youthful 

 ornithologist, then 19 years of age, Dr. Shores.) 



2. Cardinal Redbird, one (^. 



February 12. 



3. Yellow-throated Gray Warbler (Dendroica dominica) ^. 



4. Nonpareil {Passerina ciris) 5. 



5. Stone Snipe (Totanus melanoleiicus) (^. 



6. Bonaparte's Gull (Larus philadelphicus) J'. 



7. Royal Tern {Sterna maxima) (f. 



(Numbers 3, 4 and 5 are now in my collection. — W. F. H.). 



My first shot at Ft. Capron killed a Fish Crow and a Tur- 

 key Buzzard. From that place we started for Okeechobee and 

 breaking down on the way we left Professor and Fred behind. 



