160 Kennard, The Okaloacoochee Slough. [April 



" 4.58 Boat-tails are beginning to call, and Jorees (Towhees) are 

 everywhere in the palmettos about us." 



"4.59 Black Ducks again squawking, Meadowlarks, Shrikes, 

 Florida Yellow-throats everywhere, and Herons of some kind, 

 either Louisiana or Little Blues calling from the swamp." 



"5.03 A Turkey gobbling away off the southwest." 



"5.04 Turkey gobbling frequently." 



"5.05 More quawking of Herons, Barred Owls continue per- 

 formance, but Horned Owls seem to have quit. The Okaloa- 

 coochee with its low lying fog looks like a huge lake." 



"5.06 Jorees and Florida Yellow-throats are calling continu- 

 ously in every direction. I thought I heard a Song Sparrow in the 

 distance, though it may have been a Savannah." 



" 5.08 That gobbler is trying for a record." 



"5.09 A Cardinal is singing nearby. He may well have sung 

 before, and escaped notice." 



"5.16 Quail are beginning to call, the gobbler is calling again, 

 and apparently replying to another that has just started gobbling 

 south of us." 



" 5.17 Crows are cawing; a little late it seems to me." 



"5.19 Red-bellied Woodpeckers and Florida Grackles are be- 

 ginning to arrive in our grove." 



" 5.20 A Flicker is calling in the distance, and a big gobbler is 

 gobbling just a short piece up the trail." 



" 5.32 Pine Warblers, Red-winged Blackbirds and Downy Wood- 

 peckers in the pines about us." 



We succeeded in collecting four Florida Black Ducks while at 

 this camp — three drakes and a duck. I forgot to measure the duck 

 before skinning, but the three drakes when laid out on my operating 

 table, each measured twenty -three inches in length, which is con- 

 siderably longer than the measurements usually given for this 

 species, and I was very much interested in finding that they all, 

 both sexes, had bright coral red legs. The bills of the drakes were 

 very highly colored, and looked to me like the bills of the freshly 

 killed specimens of the northern species. Some, at least, of these 

 birds were beginning to breed, for although we found no nests our- 

 selves, I was later lucky enough to secure a beautiful set of eleven 

 fresh eggs, taken by a friend of Tom's on March 20, in a slough 

 near Immokalee. 



