COLLECTING BIRDS AND MAMMALS IN NORTH CAROLINA. 
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To continue 
irds and mammals in some of our 
mountainous states in the southeast t where a representative collection of 
the general run of common specimens lacking in the National Museum, the 
officials of the Museum decided to work this year in W*o state Trf North 
Carolina. This state is interesting for this type 
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of work because #f 
with great cypress swamps 
along i 
i^^^re^sf'^^ie ^ c^iCral flart of the state , the piedmont 
crest of the Appalachian range T 
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It 
had the 
cooperation of Mr. J. D. Chalk , Commissioner 
of Game and Fish, Department of Conservation, at Raleigh, Jfrfi*^ -wI^oq lejmd 
the necessary permit^ also the^of f icials connected with 
the National Forests .and of the many land owners on whose land we collected. 
With Gregor Rohwer as my field assistant, I left the first part of 
April 1939 to begin work in the 
northeastern part of 
the state near Elizabeth City. Here we remained for about two weeks working 
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in the cypress swamps, pine woods, along river banks, and^ farm lands 
Q^m^m^^^^im^^' the desired birds and mammals. 
( As the spring migration 
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w r e moved inland to 
Sampson County in the vicinity of Clinton and worked along the streams and 
cypress swamps obtaining many interesting specimens* 
May, we 
down to Brunswick County in 
the lowe r austral zone 4m^$ the extreme southeastern part of the state^ i w m h b * 
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