192 Woodruff, Birds of Shannon and Carter Counties, Mo. [April 



covered, the list must necessarily be very incomplete, but in order 

 to increase its value as a local list, I have added at the end as a 

 supplementary list such species as have been noted in Shannon 

 County by Mr. Walter Giles Savage, of Monteer, Missouri, but 

 which were not seen there by me. 



Shannon County is about fifty miles north of the Arkansas line 

 and one hundred and ten miles west of the Mississippi River, and 

 Carter County, which adjoins Shannon on the southeast, is thirty 

 miles north of Arkansas and ninety miles west of the Mississippi 

 (see Map); both counties lying on the southeastern slope of the 

 Ozark INIountains of southern Missouri. 



The Ozark region is hardly mountainous, as the name might 

 imply, but is an isolated plateau with a maximum altitude of 1700 

 feet, lying between the Mississippi lowlands on the east and south- 

 east, and the prairie region on the north and west. 



In Shannon County the surface of the plateau, here attaining 

 a height of 1100 feet, has been deeply eroded through the action 

 of streams. These have cut up the country into a maze of ravines, 

 deep valleys and narrow gorges, with bluffs and cliffs of limestone 

 often reaching a height of from 200 to 300 feet. 



Two large streams, the Current River and Jack's Fork, cross 

 this county and unite in the east-central part in Township 29, 

 Range 3 West. The Current River enters the county in its north- 

 western corner, flows in a general southeasterly direction, and pass- 

 ing into and through Carter County, finally empties into the Black 

 River in Arkansas. Jack's Fork enters the county on the west and 

 flows northeasterly till it meets and empties into the Current River. 



In Carter County the hills, which here have an elevation of about 

 700 feet, are rolling and much less rugged than in Shannon County. 



Originally both counties were covered with an unbroken forest 

 of oaks and short-leaf pine {Pinus echinata), but the latter has 

 now been almost wholly lumbered out except in certain portions 

 of Shannon County. 



As the work done in Shannon County was for the most part con- 

 fined to TowTiships 29 and 30, Range 5 and 6 West (see Map), 

 covering an area of about ninety square miles, a more detailed de- 

 scription of that section may be of interest. The country is ex- 

 tremely rough, with an intricate network of ravines, or "hollows," 



