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(June 16). Camp Bryan, belonging to several wealthy sportsmen 

 who lease the surrounding area as a game preserve, had been kindly 

 put at our disposal by the owners, and here we found INIr. H. H. 

 Brimley, curator of the Raleigh iSIuseum, awaiting us. A day or 

 two later Mr. Nichols, the son of one of the owners, joined our party. 

 We spent the afternoon in the rain, hunting King Rails' nests, of 

 which we found one containing ten eggs, in the short marsh grass 

 that covered a large part of Lake Ellis. Two nests of the Least Bit- 

 tern with three eggs each, and one with five young, were found in 

 this grass, in very different sites from those of normal nests that we 

 had seen in the north. The flock of fourteen American Egrets which 

 regularly fed at the lake was also seen. 



The 17th was a cloudy day, raining at times, and as Mr. Philipp 

 was sick, very little was accomplished. On the 18th a trip was made 

 to Great Lake where there was a very interesting colony of Florida 

 Cormorants, nearly thirty scattering nests of Osprey, seventeen of 

 the Great Blue Heron, sixteen nests of the Little Blue Heron with 

 eggs, and several of the Black-crowned Night Heron. The Cormo- 

 rant rookery was situated on the two opposite points of a bay. I made 

 a diagram on the spot, showing the trees in which most of the nests 

 were placed, the approximate positions of these trees and the gen- 

 eral height and number of nests counted. Only one nest with eggs 

 was seen; a few were empty; the majority held young in various 

 stages of growth, mostly well advanced. It was at Great Lake that 

 the flock of fourteen American Egrets roosted but the nesting site is 

 not known. 



June 19 was largely consumed in securing photographs of the 

 Least Bittern at its nest, and searching for nests of the King Rail. A 

 nest of the Florida Gallinule was found containing four eggs which 

 were just about hatching. Probably some had previously hatched. 

 June 20 was spent at Great I^ake, and a nest of the Prothonotarv 

 Warbler was found, containing well grown young. Fish Crows had 

 entirely destroyed the eggs in the Little Blue Heron colony. The 

 photographic feature of June 21 was the securing of a photograph of 

 the Florida Gallinule at her nest, thereby proving that the nest was 

 not a King Rail's as had been previously supposed. The camera 

 was tripped with a thread about 150 yards long, the operator being 

 concealed at the far end. At this distance it was impossible to dis- 



