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collecting on Three Tops, Elk Knob, Snake Mountain and other adjoining 
mountains obtaining a fair number of specimens considering the heavy rains 
which hampers wo rk of this kind. On July 22 I returned to Washington. 
the autumn 
ftp* on September 1U 
with Charles Wheeler as field assistant. Our first area was in Rockingham 
County in the north central part of the state^ We collected along* the 
head waters of the Dan and Haw Rivers 
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Aft," 
v The latter part of September we moved southwest to Iredell and 
Catawba Counties^ post of our work was confined to the wooded bottom lands 
of the Catawba River* On October 10 we giwad east to Engelhard and collected 
in the low, flat and swampy t sections of Hyde and D^re Counties. Til 1 M \t fli v*m 
^a^HP^**^ttlfc stay Jj8&£ ^^kti^g birds and mammals typical of this low ><%^w*mm^ 
. " While here we were joined by Dr. Aleiander Wetmore and Mr. J. E. Graf. 
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Leaving Engelhard on Qiaifcrafonr 1 we moved we moved west to Pitt County 
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m the vicinity of Bethel. Along Conetre Creek we found some very 
good stands of hardwood trees where collect* 
Northwest of Greenville in Pitt County 
, large tracts 
of pine woods where we found white -eyed towhees* brown-headed nuthatches and red- 
cockaded woodpeckers quite abundant. 
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Our last two weeks were spent in and near 
in Carteret Countjr^ < 
Beaufort 
in the salt marshes and low pine lands. On 
