8 THE A UD U'BOON BU Dele 
thrushes, bob-whites everywhere, chewinks (here either the white-eyed or 
the Alabama), crested flycatchers, wood pewees, pine warblers, chimney 
swifts, flickers, and downy woodpeckers (southern). Of our bluebird, red- 
headed wocdpecker and the mourning dove I saw only two or three. 
A great many birds of Florida have been favored (?) by the system- 
atists by the tagging on of the name of the state to their title. All these 
were encountered during my three days stay at this alluring place: Florida 
blue jay, redwing, yellowthroat, pileated woodpecker, nighthawk, grackle, 
red-shouldered hawk, barred owl. 
The picture changed entirely when one moved from the pine woods to 
a water body such as Lake Jackson, ten miles south of Sherwood. There all 
the herons were seen, the American and snowy egrets, the latter following 
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Anhinga or Water Turkey 
cattle in the pasture, Louisiana, little blue, and Ward’s herons, the white 
ibis, also wood duck, purple and Florida gallinules, the omnipresent killdeer, 
and migrating solitary and pectoral sandpipers. Also the loggerhead shrike 
was common here. 
One evening we were invited to the neighboring plantation of Mr. and 
Mrs. Beadel, where another avian treat (also gustatory ones) awaited us. 
Mr. Beadel wanted me to see his ten-foot alligator in his cypress swamp. 
He rowed us around over all likely places, but Mr. Alligator refused to show 
himself. Instead the bird list was somewhat augmented by the noting of 
the blue-gray gnatcatcher, the anhinga or water turkey, and the golden 
swamp warbler (perish the designation prothonotary warbler). It was an 
