'" ri|: . ' I \\ mi. in \ • . i . II \ 1 1 i . '//,< Birdi of Okefinokee Swamp. l ( .l-> 



partj saw :i group of five birdi turn repeated Bomei aults is the manner 

 which Wayne ha previously recorded (loc. cit., p. 69). At a'nother time 

 we watched a p rid to a height thrice that of the tallest pines, when 



suddenly they shot headlong downward for some two or three hundred feet, 

 halting on a level u it li the tree tope as quickly and ea il 3 as they began. 

 •jo. Accipiter cooperi. Cooper's Hawk; ' Blue Darter.' One was 

 ■ vnl on Honey I Land on June I . 



21. Buteoborealisborealis. Red-tailed Hawk; ' Rabbit Hawk.' — 

 \ pair were observed sailing over Floyd's Island on June 26. Thej were 

 ii<. 1 1 ill i'- to enable us to determine whether they were the typical 

 Bpecies or /.'. b. harlani. 



22. Buteo lineatus alleni. Florida Red-shouldered Hawk: 

 ■ I I'M Hawk ' ; 'Chicken Hawk.' Very common. 'This is one of 1 lie most 

 widely distributed birds, as its scream i one of the mosl character] 

 Bounds, of the Okefinokee. 



Falcosparveriussparverius. Sparrow Hawk; 'Tilly II:. 

 Not common within the swamp. One or two were noted on I toney Island, 

 Maj 13 L5; here on June] • ig hole which was said to h 



been occupied earher in the season. Another bird wa ' on Cow- 



1 <■ Island "ii May 23, and three more (including young of the year) on 



the oul 'Hi of the swamp near Mixon'e I erry on .June 17. 



24. Pandion haliaetus carolinensis. Fish Hawk; 'Fish Eagle'; 

 le.' Aboul fifteen Fish Hawke were noted. Their aeries usually 



ipj high and exposed situations in the prairie 'heads,' where they 

 command views over wii landmarks. Of the six 



round, three were in pines on Honey Island Prairie; the other three, 

 in dead cypresses on Floyd's I land Prairie, al the fool of Minus's Lake, 

 and on Chase Prairie. Thej were situated from fifty to one hundred feet 

 or more above the water. The only nest in a living tree was placed in the 

 branches of a pine just below its large green top. The nest on Chase 

 Prairie capped a huge cypress stump, and contained a well-grown young 

 bird on May 17. 



25. Strix varia alleni. Florida Barred Owl; ' Deer Owl'; 'Hoot 

 Owl ' Very common. Its deep, booming cry is sure to be heard al night, 

 and i- so characteristic of the Okefinokee thai the native use il •> one of 

 then hen they are in trouble or far from home. The Barred Owl 

 l»y nighl and the Red-shouldered Hawk by day furnish a round of weird 

 and startling calls that one cannot soon forget. The former is a typical 

 bird of the gloom-haunted cypre -■ bays, the river bottoms of the Suwannee, 

 and the small cyprei 3 ponds on the islands. It begin its calls in the late 



afternoon and continues them well into t he evening. in the forenoon t hey 



may In- heard until '.1 or LO o'clock, and occasionally throughout the hot 1 est, 



era) times its notes were Uttered at midday when light rains were 



falling or impending. ; well-known resonanl call, we heard a 



-ill. due, 1, querulous note, 'i | |( - ■ Deer Owl, ' exhibit considerable curio 

 th. ■ I. ponded frequently to poor imitations of their cry, and sometimes 

 to the ■ squeak 



