Oknithological Historical Sketch 



ville, published the results of his observations in The Ornithologist and Oologist 

 in 1887. He enumerated one hundred and sixty-nine varieties of birds in Bun- 

 combe County. It was he who first discovered the Cairns's Warbler. 



Messrs. H. H. and C. S. Brimley, of Raleigh, were for many years engaged in 

 collecting birds for scientific purposes. During this time, and since, they have 

 gathered much valuable information on the nesting and migration habits of the 

 birds which occur there and elsewhere in the State. Between 1884 and 1891 they 

 published in The Ornithologist and Oologist seventy-six articles on Raleigh bird 

 life. 



Mr. R. B. McLaughlin of Statesville, during 1887-1888, contributed nine articles 

 to the same publication on the birds of the Statesville region. 



Dr. Louis B. Bishop of New Haven, Connecticut, for several years was a frequent 

 visitor to Pea Island, in Dare County, and many of his observations have been pub- 

 lished from time to time in The Auk. 



My studies on North Carolina ornithology and oology extended over the period 

 of my residence in the State, from 1891 to 1912. Such papers and lists of birds as 

 were published by me are enumerated in the Bibhography, and are based on my 

 observations at Guilford College and Greensboro in Guilford' County, at Chapel 

 Hill in Orange County, and from notes made during various trips taken throughout 

 the State. 



Additional papers on the bird life of North Carolina by various authors have 

 been published; principally in The Auk, Bird-Lore, and The Ornithologist and 

 Oologist. An enumeration of the various publications containing matters in refer- 

 ence to North Carolina ornithology will be found in the bibliographical appendix 

 to this volume. 



THE STATE AUDUBON SOCIETY 



The Audubon Society of North Carolina, for the study and protection of wild 

 birds and animals, was organized in the chapel of the State Normal and Industrial 

 College at Greensboro, March 11, 1902. Abundant evidence existed to show that 

 there was most urgent need for such an organization in the State. 



Practically no attention was being given by the State and County authorities to 

 the enforcement of the woefully few and insufficient bird-protective measures that 

 existed. In some sections there were no laws prescribing closed seasons for Quail, 

 Wild Turkey, or Deer. There was scarcely the faintest shadow of a statute extend- 

 ing protection to any song birds, to birds of bright plumage, or to those species 

 which are so valuable as destroyers of insects injurious to crops. 



It was illegal to ship Quail from the State, it is true; nevertheless, scores of 

 hunters engaged in the profitable business of buying and openly shipping these 

 birds to markets outside of the State; but if ever a single one of these offenders had 

 been arrested and fined we were never able to locate any record of such a proceed- 

 ing. 



Hunters to the number of at least .3,000 poured into the State from the North 

 each winter, paid the State no license fee for hunting, killed as many Quail and 

 other birds as they chose, and, departing, took with them what spoils they desired. 



