Pearson, cn Birds of Cumberland Island, Ga. 
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fished, photographed alligators (which swarm in the swamps 
and ponds) and limited birds’ nests. 
The following is a list of the 1)7 species of birds seen on the 
Island or over the waters in the immediate vicinity. Others 
were observed bnt not at sufficiently close range to make iden- 
tification positive: 
1 Herring Gull (Lcirus argentatus) . 
Two in immature plumage were seen on the beach May 3. 
2. Laughing Gull ( Larus atricilla). 
Thirty were counted at various points flying near the beach on 
May 3. Several were immature. 
S. Common Tern ( Sterna Mrundo ) . 
Several were in sight May 2 and 5. 
4. Least Tern (Sterna antillarum) . 
Noted daily flying about the waters near Dungeness. 
5. Black Skimmer ( Rynchops nigra). 
A group of three Skimmers was seen. The birds were feeding from 
the surface as they flew leisurely by perhaps fifty yards from shore. 
6. Water-Turkey ( AnMnga anhinga) . 
An Anhinga with wings spread was seen standing on a dead tree on 
one of the ponds May 2, and another flew by shortly afterward. 
7. Florida Cormorant ( PJialacro corax auritus floridanus) . 
Ten individuals were counted. The bird is not known to breed on 
the Island. 
S. Brown Pelican ( Pelccanus occidentals). 
On May 2 two adults were seen flying over the bay near the south- 
ern shore of the Island. 
9. Wood Duck ( Aix sponsa) . 
Three pairs noted. This species undoubtedly breeds here commonly. 
10. Surf Scoter (Oidemia perspicillata) . 
Five counted near the Dungeness wharf on the morning of May 6. 
11. White Ibis (Guar a alba) . 
Nineteen adult birds observed. Seventeen were in one flock. There 
appears to be no record of any nesting colony having occupied the Island. 
12. Ward’s Heron (Ardea herodias wardi) . 
A common species. Breeds. 
13. Egret (Herodias c-gretta) . 
A colony of Herons and Egrets have for many years built their nests 
in the trees and bushes bordering one of the ponds on the Island. The 
spring of 1921 was a very dry one and the water in the pond became so 
low that the trees of the rookery were left on dry ground. Egrets, Little 
Blue and Louisiana Herons rarely continue to use their breeding grounds 
under such conditions. Hence the whole colony this spring departed to 
a swamp so difficult to penetrate that although we saw Egrets and other 
Herons converging their flight to the new nesting place we did not, upon 
advice of Mr. Carnegie, attempt to visit the colony. This species ap- 
peared to be somewhat more plentiful than the Snowy Egret. 
14. Snowy Egret (Egretta candidissima candidissima) . 
