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the stomach of a specimen (No. 38) taken near Greens- 
boro, Nov. 19, 1887, was ““filled with grasshoppers and 
beetles.” The stomach of No. 959, listed below, ‘‘con- 
tained a good gill of insects and a snake about 6 inches 
long.” 
No. 151. Male-juv. Greensboro. May 25, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 182. KFemale-juv. Greensboro. Aug. 10, 1889. W.C. Avery. 
No. 188. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 17, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 221. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 19, 1889. W.C. Avery. 
No. 226. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 28, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 279. Female. Greensboro. Nov. 26, 1889. W. C. Avery. 
No. 331. Male. Greensboro. Dec. .28, 1889. 
No. 959. .Female. Greensboro. Dec. 4, 1891. W. C. Avery. 
70. BUTEO PLATYPTERUS (Vieillot). 
BROAD-WINGED HAWK. 
“Rare. Only one specimen has come under my obser- 
vation. That was shot and mounted by Dr. J. M. Pickett, 
of Cedarville, Alabama. I have the specimen in my col- 
lection.” (1890d). 
Unfortunately this specimen has since disappeared. 
71. HALIZETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS 
(Linneus). 
BALD EAGLE. 
“Hight years ago while shooting five miles west of 
Greensboro, a bald eagle flew over my head at scarcely 
forty feet high. It took but a second to cock my gun and 
present, but my horse, for the first time that I had 
known him, reversed ends as quick as thought; and I 
found myself with my face and my gun turned in the 
opposite direction from that which I had intended. The 
eagle continued on his way and I have not seen him 
since. My nephew had been shooting from my horse, 
and had poked the gun between his ears, perhaps, repeat- 
ed shocks from charges fired too close to his ears, or 
perhaps grains of powder burning him, had made him 
gun shy and caused me to lose the only specimen of the 
bald eagle I ever saw. Moral reflection: Don’t lend 
your horse, or dog, or. gun.” (1890e). 
“Bald eagles were common on the sea coast of Baldwin 
County.” (Original notes. Sept. 16-Oct. 2, 1892.) 
