°!9i3 ' I Wbiqhi \\i> Habpeb, Th Bird, of Okefinokee Swamp. 489 



are the j >i« ■« 1 water snake, pilot snake {Coluber obaoletus), southern 

 Bof1 shelled turtle, alligator snapper (Mocrochelys locertina), alli- 

 gator, large-mouthed black bass Micropterus salmoides), warmouth, 

 ami other basses (( YntrarehidaeJ, two pickerels (Esox americanus 

 and /-. reticidaitui), and various catfishes (Ameiurus) and killi- 

 fishes. The summer birds of this habitat are few in number, in- 

 cluding only the Water-Turkey, Wood Duck, and Fish Hawk. 

 The Chimney Swift, which skims low over the surface, may also 

 be mentioned. In the winter, when Coots and various species of 

 Ducks arrive from the north, the numbers of water birds are con- 

 siderably augmented. 



The close affinity of the Okefinokee avifauna with that of the 

 Florida peninsula is shown by the presence of such birds as Ward's 

 Heron, the Limpkin, the Florida Blue Jay, and the Florida Red-wing. 

 The last two, while intermediate between the typical species and 

 the subspecies, are distinctly referable to the Florida form. The 

 same statement could very likely be made concerning the Night- 

 hawk if we had secured specimens. Other birds of the swamp 

 whose ranges extend only slightly further north along the Atlantic 

 coast are the Sandhill Crane, Florida Red-shouldered Hawk, 

 Florida Barred Owl, Florida Grackle, Pine-woods Sparrow, White- 

 eyed Towhee, and Florida White-breasted Nuthatch. In contrast 

 to the Blue Jay and the Red-wing, the Bob-white of the Okefinokee 

 belongs decidedly to the northern form, though the specimens 

 show some slight tendencies toward the characters of Colinus 

 virginianus floridanus. 



List of Spe< n.s Observed. 



1. Anhinga anhinga. Water-Turkey. — These birds are common 

 on some of the larger waterways of the Okefinokee. They seem to be con- 

 gregated chiefly along the Bi« Water and on the Suwannee River, where 

 single birds or small groups were frequently seen soaring high in the air. 

 On Billy's Lake a few were observed. In some years they have nested 

 at the north end of Minne's Lake. On May 21 a colony of three or four 

 nests was located in a cypress head on Floyd's Island Prairie. Curiously 

 enough, the birds were sitting on empty nests, and a broken eggshell 

 halfway down one of the cypress saplings was the only material evidence 

 of breeding. No eggs were found when the same place was visited on 

 June 27. Sometimes the Water-Turkeys nest in isolated pairs, and at 



