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out of a flock of Mallards and Pintails flushed from a fresh water pond 

 back in the hammock lands. 



11. Dafila acuta. Pintail. — Common on all the waters we visited. 

 This and the Mallard were the predominant ducks at and around Goose 

 Creek. We also found them in a fresh water pond back in the hammock 

 lands. They mingled freely with other species of ducks, especially the 

 Mallards. 



12. Aix sponsa. Wood Duck. — I saw a female feeding in a fresh 

 water pond back in the hammock lands. 



13. Marila affinis. Lesser Scaup Duck. — One of Mr. Gamble's 

 day's bags exhibited to me contained two of this species, killed on the Creek. 



14. Branta canadensis canadensis. Canada Goose. — On two or 

 three occasions I saw a flock containing at least 250 individuals, and daily 

 saw flocks of lesser size. They were quite wild and wary, but their honking 

 was heard at all hoars of the day. They frequented the open waters of the 

 bay and the edges of the large marshes about two miles in front of East 

 Goose Creek. We did not succeed in procuring a single specimen. 



15. Ardea herodias herodias. Great Blue Heron. — Fairly 

 numerous at all times, feeding on the shores and in the shallow waters of 

 the bay and the Creek. 



16. Egretta candidissima candidissima. Snowy Egret. — On the 

 morning of November 22, I saw two of these dainty birds standing close 

 together on the muddy shore of a small, isolated pond in one of the prairie 

 areas about three-quarters of a mile back of East Goose Creek. 



17. Hydranassa tricolor ruficollis. Louisiana Heron. — Two were 

 seen one morning feeding in the shallow water, at low tide, on a mud flat 

 in the Creek. 



18. Florida cserulea. Little Blue Heron. — On several occasions 

 I saw one or two feeding, at low tide, in the shallow water off the main 

 beach. 



19. Rallus crepitans scotti. Florida Clapper Rail. — Fairly 

 abundant in the bulrush marsh between the Creek and the road. They 

 were very noisy near and just after nightfall and in the early morning. 

 Although I explored a large section of the marsh I succeeded in flushing 

 only one, and that close to the Gamble house within a few yards of the road 

 leading to the East Goose Creek beach. Only one other bird was actually 

 seen. It was feeding just before dark in a small open plot between the 

 edge of the bulrushes and the beach. Mrs. Lewis called me from the 

 house to see it. The specimen was collected. 



20. Gallinago delicata. Wilson's Snipe. — On several occasions 

 I flushed one or two in the bulrush marsh between the Creek and the road. 



21. Pisobia minutilla. Least Sandpiper. — Quite abundant on 

 the main beach and on the oyster beds, mud flats, and shores of the Creek, 

 at low tide, where they mingled freely with Red-backed Sandpipers and 

 Killdeers. They were so indifferent to us that I concluded they had not 

 recently been shot at. A few were flushed on several occasions from small, 

 barren spaces in the bulrush marsh. 



