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THE OOLOGIST 



arching over it further down it 

 broadens greatly and is edged with 

 mangroves while back from the low 

 banks are salt grass meadows and 

 some hardwood. The distance from 

 the Port to the sea is but two and one- 

 half miles, but so winding is the river 

 that we almost "boxed the compass." 

 Many herons, ibises, pigeons and 

 kingbirds were seen along the river. 

 On the sand bars were killdeer and 

 sandpipers. From the top of the 

 dredge I took a view looking up the 

 mouth of the river and another of 

 the beach at low tide just to the 

 north. I stood on a point and watched 

 through the glass several cormorants 

 flying low over the sea and one grand 

 old pelican sailing high above it. The 

 return trip was just as interesting. 



We arrived home at about 5:30 P. M. 



The least number of species seen 

 in one day was twenty and the great- 

 est thirty-three, and the total number 

 forty-three as follows: 



Brown Pelican (1), Florida Cormor- 

 ant (3), White Ibis (11), Little Blue 

 Heron, Ward's (?) Heron (2), Cuban 

 White Heron, Lousiana Heron, South- 

 ern Green Heron, Limpkin, Antillean 

 Killdeer, Solitary Sandpiper, Anhigna 

 (1), Cuban Sparrow Hawk, Cuban Pig- 

 my Owl, Southern Turkey Buzzard, 

 Pigeon, ^Columba inornata), Zenaida 

 Dove, W. I. Mourning Dove, White- 

 crowned Pigeon, Cuban Quail, Isle of 

 Pines Lizard Cuckoo, Ani, Cuban Par- 

 rot, Cuban Green Woodpecker, Cuban 

 Red-bellied Woodpecker, Gray King- 

 bird Giant Kingbird, Cuban Kingbird, 



No. 74. Sea, at mouth of Nuevas River — On trip to the Sea. 



— Photo by A. C. Read 



