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Mockingbird was warbling from a neighboring telegraph pole, 

 Florida Bluejays were feeding among the palms, and a Loggerhead 

 Shrike was singing somewhere in the grounds. Purple Martins 

 were flying about the water tank at the rear of the hotel, and the 

 omnipresent English Sparrow was yapping among the out-build- 

 ings. In the bay back of the house was a bunch of about thirty 

 very tame Lesser Scaup Ducks, close in by the sea wall, while just 

 outside, a couple of big Brown Pelicans were wheeling about in the 

 air, or flopping down into the water; and several gulls and some 

 large terns were flying about. 



On our way through the pine woods we saw Turkey Buzzards, 

 of course, and a few Florida Crows, Florida Jays, and Florida 

 Bluejays, Flickers, Pileated, Red-cockaded and Red-bellied Wood- 

 peckers. There were numerous warblers flitting about the tree 

 tops, but in our hurry we only identified the Pine and Myrtle. 

 There were a few sparrows also in the underbrush, which we 

 had no time to identify. We saw Phoebes, Bluebirds, numerous 

 Shrikes, Florida Red-wings, Mourning Doves, and several King- 

 fishers flying about the sloughs or lakes that we passed in the open 

 places. We saw several large herons, either Ward's or Great Blue, 

 a small flock of Little Blue Herons, about half of which were white, 

 one Louisiana Heron, and in the distance, one large white heron, 

 probably an Egret. There were numbers of Florida Meadowlarks, 

 and after we had passed Immokalee we began to get into the 

 country of the Sandhill Cranes. 



About sixteen miles out from Fort Myers we discovered the nest 

 of an Audubon Caracara, placed about thirty-five feet up in the 

 top of a pine, just beside the trail. The nest was a rather bulky 

 affair built of sticks, coarse beneath and finer above, with a depres- 

 sion in the top about four inches deep, lined with weeds, and con- 

 taining one fresh egg. The birds did not seem to be particularly 

 wild, and at first watched us curiously from a neighboring tree, 

 and later flew off to the edge of an adjoining slough. 



Immokalee is a typical little Florida hamlet and consists of a 

 church, several houses, one of which contained a postoffice, a so- 

 called store, and several small orange groves. Its oldest inhabitant,. 

 Mr. W. H. Brown, an Englishman who has lived there for forty 

 years trading with the Seminoles, boasted that the town was the 

 highest in Lee County just twenty-one feet above the sea ! 



