1891.] Hasbrouck oil the Ii'ory-hillcd Woodpeckci-. ^79 



tion of this Woodpecker, and, as might be expected, many records 

 are to be found; in fact, so admirably adapted to the wants of 

 this bird is by far the larger portion of the State, that there are 

 here more actual instances of its capture than in all the rest of 

 the States east of the Mississij^pi. 



It will consume too much time to mention more than a few im- 

 portant records. At Cedar Keys it was taken on January 31, 

 1S59 (specimen in Smithsonian Institution). Mr. S. C. Clarke* 

 writes: •■' In 1S72 I procured a male near New Smyrna, Volusia 

 County" ; he also heard some in 1S70 at Merritt's Island. Mr. 

 Scott states (in the article previously referred to), "the same day 

 tiiat the nest was found eleven were counted in the swamp in 

 question, sometimes four or five being in sight at once" ; while 

 in 'Forest and Stream,' XXIV, 427, ' W. A. D.' of Hawkinsville, 

 Orange County, writes that he and his two brothers had killed 

 between twenty and twenty-five of these birds during the past 

 ten years, for a taxidermist in Palatka. The last one seen was 

 on May 4, 18S5. While in Florida in 1886, the writer saw one of 

 these self-same birds stuffed and mounted. On March 8, 1SS6, 

 Mr. \\. A. Kline t killed one on St. Mark's River, near Talla- 

 hassee, and a few weeks previous saw two others in the same 

 localitv. In the Smithsonian collection isa magnificent specimen 

 taken by Major Bvrnes, at Bristol, Liberty Ccumty, December 

 7, 18S9. For the present year (1890) the records, so far as known, 

 are two in number : on March 27, an acquaintance. Captain Gregg, 

 a veteran hunter, informed me that he had recently returned from 

 a hunting trip on the Wacissa River, in Jefferson County, and 

 that among other birds, the Ivory-billed Woodpecker was quite 

 common ; that he had killed two, but not knowing how to skin 

 them, thev were thrown away. I questioned Captain Gregg closely 

 regarding the birds, and there is no doubt in my mind that they 

 were Campephihis. The other specimen was taken by Mr. Frank 

 M. Chapman on the Suwanee River, twenty miles from the mouth, 

 on March 24. Mr. Chapman's testimony is that this was the only 

 bird met with during the three weeks passed on the river and, from 

 the information gathered that it is there an extremely rare bird. 

 The most southern record for the State is furnished by Mr. William 

 Brewster, who obtained three specimens from Dade Count) in 

 1889, while a single individual was offered to Mr. Charles B. 



* Forest and Stream, XXIV, 367. 

 tForest and Stream, XXIV, 163. 



