154 Williams, Birds of Leon County, Fla. [April 



the large quantity of insect food they procured there. The minor 

 shrubbery is in places quite thick and furnishes a home for the 

 more terrestrial species. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad cuts 

 off a small strip of low woodland on the south side where the mag- 

 nolias and sweet gums assume gigantic proportions, and through 

 which runs a clear, cool and swift little stream, the watering place 

 of the birds frequenting the locality. From its comparatively high 

 situation and the abundance of food, Lively' s woods furnishes a 

 tempting halting place for the small birds passing southward in the 

 fall. I was often in the woods at daybreak, and from that time till 

 about 7 o'clock the migrants were very active, but after that hour 

 and on throughout the day they could not be found. 



What uncomfortable recollections still linger with me of the pains 

 and penalties inflicted by that microscopic pest, the red bug {Leptus). 

 Every conceivable spot in the woodland seemed infested by them 

 and to entirely escape the plague was quite impossible though the 

 severity of their sting was largely mitigated by the free use of sul- 

 phur sprinkled down the legs of my underclothes before leaving 

 home. 



The absence of a number before the species following indicates 

 its incorporation in the former list and the addition of a number, 

 that it is now recorded for the first time. I have continued the 

 numbers in serial order from my first paper, thereby the more 

 readily to present the number of species found in the county. 



List of Species. 



. 157. Anas obscura. Black Duck. — Found three of these birds on 

 sale at one of the stores on Nov. 8, 1904. They had been killed on Lake 

 Jackson. 



Sayornis phoebe. Phosbe. — First seen in fall of 1904, Oct. 2. 



Contopus virens. Wood Pewee. — First seen in fall of 1904, Aug. 28. 

 From this date till Oct. 12 they were fairly common, but then disappeared. 

 I have no evidence yet of their occurrence in the county during spring or 

 early summer. 



158. Empidonax virescens. Green-crested Flycatcher. — Sept. 

 11, 1904, I saw the bird for the first time in the county, in a dark, damp 

 part of Lively 's woods. The explosive pect made known its presence. Last 

 seen Oct. 9. It has been recorded as a nesting bird in South Florida but I 

 am satisfied it does not even occur in Leon County except as a fall, and per- 

 haps a spring, migrant. 



