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 keep that one on hand. You may have them all put in one of the 

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 amounts now to Eighteen, six that you will send and one copy for 

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SOME BIRDS OF CENTRAL ALABAMA. 



A List of the Birds observed from M.vrch 7 to June 9, in por- 

 tions OF CoosA, Clay and Talledega Counties, Alabama 



BY ARETAS A. SAUNDERS. 



Since our knowledge of the birds of Alabama is incomplete, 

 and since few local lists have ever been published from this State, 

 it was thought that the following would be worthy of publication, 

 although the observations cover but a small area of country and a 

 short period of time. 



The area covered, consisting roughly of about 100 square miles, 

 lies principally in the northwestern part of Coosa County, but 

 includes also the southwestern corner of Clay County, at Hollins. 

 Besides this, three days, April 14-16, were spent at Sylacauga, in 

 the southern part of Talladega County. Our camp, about which 

 the greater part of the observations were made, was situated one 

 mile east of Woodbine, a small portable lumbering town which is 

 moved about following the supply of timber, but was then situated 

 in Coosa County, four miles to the west of Weogufka. Though 



