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the stomach of a specimen (No. 38) taken near Greens- 

 boro, Nov. 19, 1887, was '"filled with grasshoppers and 

 beetles." The stomach of No. 959, listed below, "con- 

 tained a good gill of insects and a snake about 6 inches 

 long." 



No. 151. Male-juv. Greensboro. May 25, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 182. Female-juv. Greensboro. Aug. 10, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 188. Male. Greensboro. Aug. 17, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 221. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 19, 1889. W.C. Avery. 



No. 226. Female. Greensboro. Sept. 28, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 279. Female. Greensboro. Nov. 26, 1889. W. C. Avery. 



No. 331. Male. Greensboro. Dec. .28, 1889. 



No. 959. .Female. Greensboro. Dec. 4, 1891. W. C. Avery. 



70. BUTEO PLATYPTERUS (Vieillot). 

 BROAD-WINGED HAWK. 



"Rare. Only one specimen has come under my obser- 

 vation. That was shot and mounted by Dr. J. M. Pickett, 

 of Cedarville, Alabama. I have the specimen in my col- 

 lection." (1890d). 



Unfortunately this specimen has since disappeared. 



71. HALI^ETUS LEUCOCEPHALUS LEUCOCEPHALUS 



(Linnaeus) . 

 BALD EAGLE. 



"Eight years ago while shooting five miles west of 

 Greensboro, a bald eagle flew over my head at scarcely 

 forty feet high. It took but a second to cock my gun and 

 present, but my horse, for the first time that I had 

 known him, reversed ends as quick as thought; and I 

 found myself with my face and my gun turned in the 

 opposite direction from that which I had intended. The 

 eagle continued on his way and I have not seen him 

 since. My nephew had been shooting from my horse, 

 and had poked the gun between his ears, perhaps, repeat- 

 ed shocks from charges fired too close to his ears, or 

 perhaps grains of powder burning him, had made him 

 gun shy and caused me to lose the only specimen of the 

 bald eagle I ever saw. Moral reflection: Don't lend 

 your horse, or dog, or gun." (1890e). 



"Bald eagles were common on the sea coast of Baldwin 

 County." (Original notes. Sept. 16-Oct. 2, 1892.) 



