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Southport. s 
beautiful painted 
buntings, brown-heacled nuthatches, red*cockaded v/oodpeckers, 
towhees. and many other interesting denizens of the southern woods* While 
here we 
Smith • Island which is just off the coast from Southport 
where it is claimed that the only palm trees that grow in the state are 
found. We did some very interesting work here. 
Moving to Richmond County we worked in the cotton and corn grow- 
ing section of the state along the Pee Dee River near Rockingham. We were 
fortunate to find 
area near the North Carolina - South Carolina 
state line where, we collected mm* southern birds, one being the white-eyed 
towhee • 
which is in the extreme southwestern part of 
The early part of June found me in Cherokee County near Mu^rhy, 
9 investigating the 
mountains in tin' r rtriinn^ Pack Mountain being the highest. Completing 
here , after much difficulty because of Wm rainy weather, I went east 
to Franklin and worked in the Nantahala National Forest on Wayah Bald, 
Standing Indian and ad j oining mountains. These mountains are well over 
5000 feet but. being so far south, near the Georgia line, the 
balsam and spruce trees which are 
Wayah Bald and Standing Indian Mountains are State Game Refuges, 
my workout of the preserves. While in this area I 
visited Highlands to obtain a few specimens of 
mountain form of the blue-headed vireo^was originally named fro'rn^ 
I spent the 
Ml 1 i£ m §f^S3k 11*' 
Ap in the 
beautiful and mountainous section in the northeastern part of the state 
