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the mountains, the highest in this region being Pack Mountain. Com- 

 pleting studies here, we went east to Franklin and worked in the 

 Nantahala National Forest on Wayah Bald, Standing Indian, and 

 adjoining mountains. These mountains are well over 5,000 feet, but 

 being so far south, near the Georgia line, they lack the balsam and 

 spruce trees found at similar altitudes a little farther north, and 

 therefore northern forms of birds and mammals do not occur. 



We spent the first half of July in the beautiful and mountainous 

 section in the northeast, collecting on Three Tops, Elk Knob, Snake 

 Mountain, and other adjoining mountains, obtaining a fair number of 

 specimens considering the heavy rains, which hamper work of this 

 kind. On July 22, we returned to Washington. 



For work in the autumn I left Washington on September 14, 

 with Charles Wheeler as field assistant. Our first area was in Rock- 

 ingham County in the north-central part of the State, where we 

 collected along the headwaters of the Dan and Haw Rivers. The 

 latter part of September we moved southwest to Iredell and Catawba 

 Counties, where most of our work was confined to the wooded bottom 

 lands of the Catawba River. On October 10 we continued east to 

 the low, flat, and swampy sections of Hyde and Dare Counties near 

 Engelhard and Stumpy Point. This is hunting country, where deer 

 and other game abound, and we obtained many birds and mammals 

 typical of this low coastal region. While here we were joined for a 

 few days by Dr. Alexander Wetmore and J. E. Graf, of the Smith- 

 sonian Institution. 



Our camp was on the south shore of Lake Mattasmuskeet, and 

 during a day or two of cold we saw the arrival of the first Canada 

 geese from the north. Through the courtesy of the Biological Survey 

 we had permission to trap for mice and shrews in the nearby Wild 

 Life Refuge, and here we obtained excellent specimens. 



Leaving Engelhard on November 1 we moved west to Pitt County 

 to the vicinity of Bethel. Along Conetoe Creek we found some 

 excellent stands of hardwood trees, where collecting was good. North- 

 west of Greenville in Pitt County were large tracts of pine woods, 

 where we found white-eyed towhees, brown-headed nuthatches, and 

 red-cockaded woodpeckers. 



Our last 2 weeks were spent in and near Beaufort in Carteret 

 County, working in the salt marshes and low pine lands, and at the 

 end of November we returned to Washington. 



The results of the season include an excellent representation of 

 the birds of the State. Small mammals were scarce except along the 

 coastal plain, and few were obtained in the Piedmont area. 



