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FURTHER NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF LEON COUNTY, 



FLORIDA. 



BY R. W. WILLIAMS, JR. 



A year ago I published a preliminary list of the birds of Leon 

 County, Florida, 1 which comprised the species I had then observed, 

 with notes of such facts connected with them as seemed of special 

 interest. As subsequent observations, besides materially extending 

 this list, have added information concerning the birds already listed, 

 it seems desirable to publish a supplementary article on the birds of 

 the county. 



Most of the information here recorded was gathered in the fall of 

 1904 during early morning excursions through McDougall's pasture 

 and to a thickly wooded hill a quarter of a mile from the city limits, 

 which I have designated in my journals, and likewise do here, as 

 'Lively's woods,' from the name of the owner. Birds found here 

 are individually and specifically so numerous that a brief descrip- 

 tion of the locality may be interesting. McDougall's pasture, 

 ornithologically the most productive limited area I have ever seen, 

 covers about sixty acres. A small cypress swamp, with its marshes, 

 occupies the center, from which, on the eastern and western sides 

 gradually rises a symmetrical, grass-carpeted hill, that on the west- 

 ern reaching its highest elevation in the back yard of the owners of 

 the pasture, just on the line that marks the eastern limits of Talla- 

 hassee. The eastern one terminates (and the country thence as- 

 sumes a level condition) at the western edge of Lively's woods. 

 This woodland occupies an area of about thirteen acres and is 

 composed largely of such trees as the live and water oaks, sweet 

 gums, hickories, pines, magnolias, persimmons, and hollies, none 

 of which attain any great size and the oaks are rather remarkable 

 for their slenderness and the scarcity of their lower branches or 

 twigs, the growth of which has developed principally at and near 

 the top. Among the leaves and branches of these trees I found 

 the migrating warblers very abundant and was surprised to note 



'Auk, Vol. XXI, 1904, pp. 449-462. 



