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Birds of Xoktii Cakoi.ixa 



Augustine Finer has killed many in the ocean near Morehead City, and speci- 

 mens in the Museums at Ciuill'ord College, at the Normal and Industrial College 

 at Greensboro, and in the State Museum at Raleigh, were secured from him by 

 Pearson. Coues saw several at Fort Macon during thick weather in 1869 and 

 1870. Bishop records one from Pea Islanil, January 2, 1900. 



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25. Ga.\xi:t. Fir,. 26. Foot of G.^nnet. 



Besides the Clannot, nnotlier memher of thi.s family, the Booby, Siila Uncogaslra (Bodd.), 

 may occur as a .straggler on our coast in siuunier. This is a somewhat smaller bird than the 

 Gannet, and is mainly soutv brown in color. 



9. FAMILY ANHINGID/E. DARTERS 



Genus Anhinga iBriss.) 

 33. Anhinga anhinga (/.////(.). Water-Turkey 



.4(/. a^ ('// xiDiiiiicr. — ( tcnci'al jihunagc glossy black witli greenish reflections; liaclc of head 

 and neck with scattered grayish plumes; upper l)ack witli numerous eloiigateil silvery white 

 spots, which on the scapulars become streaks; les.ser wing-coverts spotted like back; ex[)o.sed 

 portion of median and greater coverts silvery gi'aj'j tail tipped with whitish, outer webs of 

 middU- pair of feathers with transverse flutings. Ad. cf in winler. — .Similar, but without gray- 

 ish plumes on head and neck. .1'/. 9. — Similar to cf, but with the whole head, neck, and 

 breast biownish, darker above. Ini. — Similar to 9, but with black parts of plumage Ijrownish. 

 L., .34.()(); \V., i:5..')0; T., 10..")(); B., ■.i:2r-,. (Chap., Bir<h of E. X. A.) 



Ranrje. — Tropical .Xmerica from North Carolina and southern Illinois southward. 



Range in Xorllt Carnlind. — So far oiilv known from the extreme southeastern eoimty of the 

 State. 



"While approaciiing a colony of herons in Tom Brancli on the Orton jjiantation, 

 fifteen miles below Wilmington, June 7, 1898, a Water-Turkey was flushed from 

 its nest in a cypress-tree about ten feet above the water. The bird flew rapidly 

 away for perliaps thirty rods, then, turning, came driving back overhead, only to 

 return shortly from the opposite direction. At each approach it appeared higher 

 in the air until at a considerable altitude, when it began to circle on motionless 



