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impression on the photographic plate being made during the in- 

 stantaneous pause when the wings were fully spread before closing. 

 The figure at the bottom of Plate XXI shows a reproduction of 

 the photograph actual size while Plate XXII is an enlargement 

 with the 'ghost' of the wings intensified. The left wing appears 

 to be too long but if we imagine the center of the bird's back to 

 have been where the black spot appears on the photograph, which 

 was no doubt its position, then the proportions would be about 

 right. 



BIRDS OF AUTAUGA AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES, 

 ALABAMA. 



BY LEWIS S. GOLSAN AND ERNEST G. HOLT. 



Plate XXIII. 



The counties of Autauga and Montgomery are just a little 

 southeast of the center of the state of Alabama the southeast corner 

 of Autauga and the northwest corner of Montgomery adjoining 

 along the Alabama River. 



This region lies well within the Austroriparian Fauna of the 

 Lower Austral Zone; the most conspicuous breeding birds charac- 

 terizing it being: ChoBmepelia p. terrestris, Catkarista uruhu, 

 Dryohates v. auduboni, D. p. pubescens, D. borealis, Colaptes a. 

 auratus, Antrostomus carolinensis, Sturnella m. argutula, Peuccea ce. 

 bachmani, Guiraca c. caerulea, Lanius I. ludovicianus, Protonotaria 

 citrea, Dendroica d. dominica, Geothlypis t. ignota, Mimus p. poly- 

 glottos, and Sitta pusilla. 



The mean temperature and precipitation at Montgomery (taken 

 from Mohr's " Plant Life of Alabama, " p. 97 are as follows : 



