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THE OOLOGIST 



on the grounds of the club, as well as 

 two varieties of palms and other typic- 

 ally tropical plants. Both long leaf 

 and short leaf pine, cypress, magnolia, 

 bay, live oak, black jack, wild cherry, 

 and other just as different hardwoods 

 grow within a stones throw of one an- 

 other. The natural surroundings of 

 swamp grasses and shrubbery is high- 

 ly conducive to the fauna of the region. 

 The Chuek-Wills-Widow, the little 

 Ground Dove, the Bob-White, and the 

 Field Sparrow, as well as the Meadow 

 Lark, nest within and near the pine 

 groves, and the Crane and Water birds 

 hatch their young not one hundred 

 yards away. 



On the 29th day of April, 1922, I 

 noted within one-fourth mile of the 

 club house the Cardinal, the Summer 

 Tanager (both male and female), the 

 Red-winged Blackbird, the Bee Martin, 

 the Rough-winged Swallow, Chimney 

 Swift, Snipe, Killdeer, Cow Bird, Mock- 

 ing Bird, Cat Bird, Yellow Hammer, 

 Meadow Lark, Savannah Sparrow, 

 Bronze Grackle, English Sparrow, 

 Bluebird, Marsh Hawk, Mourning 

 Dove, Brown Thrasher, Wren, Crow, 

 Purple Martin, and I heard in the 

 marshes nearby the American Bittern 

 and one of the Sandpipers, as well as 

 seeing what 1 took to be a Tern, and 

 the Warblers and Vireos were keeping 

 up a constant twitter in the swamp 

 nearby. 



In passing by the edge of it, I 

 identified the Pine Warbler, Parula 

 Warbler, Prairie (in an open field), 

 what I thought was a Yellow-bellied 

 Fly-catcher, a Goldfinch and a Wood 

 Thrush. 



A small colony of Green-head Mal- 

 lards nested on the reservation in 

 1922. The authorities of the club pre- 

 vented the shooting of them in the 

 hopes that they might become estab- 

 lished in the locality. Reports of a 

 few nests have been made during two 



or three recent summers at the head 

 of Speigners Lake, thirty miles west 

 of here, but I cannot verify this. The 

 Wood Duck is quite common at Speig- 

 ners and may have been confused with 

 the Mallard. 



The Indigo Bunting, so attractive 

 along the Tallapoosa River in other 

 sections was not noted on these 

 grounds until the late summer of 1922. 

 The Water-Turkey is prevalent, and a 

 reasonably common bird, in the swamp 

 country in several directions, within 

 a radius of five miles. 



Two miles away and lower on the 

 Tallapoosa River is a colony of White 

 Heron, and I have taken the little 

 Green Heron and the great Blue 

 Heron at the same place. The Blue- 

 gray Gnat-catcher was taken by me 

 less than three miles from here, and 

 I have noted the Brown-headed Nut- 

 hatch, the Kinglets and the Red-eyed 

 Vireo just across the river from the 

 club grounds. 



The Purple Gallinule and the Flor- 

 ida Gallinule have nested on a lake 

 two miles down the river for several 

 years, and this year a pair of the 

 Purple were observed here during the 

 spring. A flock of seven wild Turkeys 

 is nesting on Chubbahatchi Creek, 

 not six miles away. 



I have records of the Robin there in 

 May, and as they nest in Montgomery 

 county, I have reason to believe they 

 nest here, too. 



The European Starling has been 

 taken in Elmore and Montgomery 

 counties during the past three winters, 

 not five miles from here, always in 

 January, and feed in this locality on 

 the winter berries. 



