VO 'i909^^ 1 ] Bowdish, Ornithological Notes from Audubon Wardens. 117 



week in November. At one time in January there were about 1000 

 occupied nests. A severe storm and high tide struck them in 

 February; the birds first hatched were just able to fly; the rest 

 were destroyed, the water making a clean sweep over the island. 

 Of 2500 not over 600 escaped. Later about 75 nests were built 

 but for some unknown reason they abandoned the island without 

 hatching. — Paul Krogel, Pelican Island Reservation, Florida, 

 Sept. 9, 1907. 



This has been the most successful season the birds have had 

 since the island was made a reservation. A good many birds 

 died in February through cold and exposure during stormy weather, 

 otherwise the total would have been from six to eight hundred 

 larger. The second brood came through very well; they can all 

 fly with the exception of about 30. There are about 1000 birds on 

 the island now, young and old. The second brood numbers be- 

 tween six and seven hundred birds, most of which are still around 

 the island. This season puts the island ahead of what it used to be 

 years ago, as there were certainly more birds than I have ever seen 

 on it before. There will probably be birds on the island until 

 nesting starts again, unless a storm drives them off. — Paul Krogel, 

 Pelican Island Reservation, Florida, Sept. 1, 1908. 



Roseate Spoonbill. — Five years ago there was a fine flock of 

 Roseate Spoonbills or "Pink Curlews" that used and did their 

 feeding in the northeast end of Turtle Bay; only 18 are left now of 

 the flock, and they have for the past two seasons done their feeding 

 on my home island in the fall and winter months. Hunters and 

 tourists killed them, and there are but few left on the Gulf coast of 

 Florida. — Columbus G. McLeod, Sunset Island, Florida, 1907. 



American White Pelican. — A small flock of White Pelicans 

 fed during the winter and early spring months in the northeast end 

 of Gasparilla Sound. There were about 50, but they are decreas- 

 ing from shooting for wings, feathers and for mounting. Nearly 

 all the birds except pelicans and cormorants go to the main land 

 to feed. — Columbus G. McLeod, Sunset Island, Florida, 1907. 



Black Skimmers. — Black Skimmers began nesting three weeks 

 earlier than in 1906. — Asa M. Pillsbury, Jr., Passage and Indian 

 Keys Reservations, Florida, 1907. 



There was heavy weather on the 19th of April which destroyed 



