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BIRDS OF NORTH CAROLINA 



Augustine Finer has killed many in the ocean near Morehead City, and speci- 

 mens in the Museums at Guilford College, at the Normal and Industrial College 

 at Greensboro, and in the State Museum at Raleigh, were secured from him by 

 Pearson. Coues saw several at Fort Macon during thick weather in 1869 and 

 1870. Bishop records one from Pea Island, January 2, 1906. 



FIG. 25. GAXXET. 



FIG. 26. FOOT OP GANNET. 



Besides the Gannet, another member of this family, the Booby, Sula leucogastra (Bodd.), 

 may occur as a straggler on our coast in summer. This is a somewhat smaller bird than the 

 Gannet, and is mainly sooty brown in color. 



9. FAMILY ANH1NG1D>E. DARTERS 



Genus Anhinga (Briss.) 

 33. Anhinga anhinga (Linn.}. WATER-TURKEY 



Ad. cf in summer. General plumage glossy black with greenish reflections; back of head 

 and neck with scattered grayish plumes; upper back with numerous elongated silvery white 

 spots, which on the scapulars become streaks; lesser wing-coverts spotted like back; exposed 

 portion of median and greater coverts silvery gray; tail tipped with whitish, outer webs of 

 middle pair of feathers with transverse flutings. Ad. d" in winter. Similar, but without gray- 

 ish plumes on head and neck. Ad. 9 . Similar to d", but with the whole head, neck, and 

 breast brownish, darker above. Im. Similar to ? , but with black parts of plumage brownish. 

 L., 34.00; W., 13.50; T., 10.50; B., 3.25. (Chap., Birds of E. N. A.) 



Range. Tropical America from North Carolina and southern Illinois southward. 



Range in North Carolina. So far only known from the extreme southeastern count v of the 

 State. 



"While approaching a colony of herons in Tom Branch on the Orton plantation, 

 fifteen miles below Wilmington, June 7, 1898, a Water-Turkey was flushed from 

 its nest in a cypress-tree about ten feet above the water. The bird flew rapidly 

 away for perhaps thirty rods, then, turning, came driving back overhead, only to 

 return shortly from the opposite direction. At each approach it appeared higher 

 in the air until at a considerable altitude, when it began to circle on motionless 



