Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus).—Much the most numerous of the Woodpeckers.
Barred Owl (Strix nebulosa).—Exceedingly numerous, the swamp resounding at night with their hootings.
Cooper’s Hawk (Accipiter cooperi).—Common, breeding.
Red-shouldered Hawk (Buteo lineatus).—Much the most numerous of the Hawks. On one occasion eight adults were observed circling together overhead, all uttering their clamorous cries.
Mourning Dove (Zenaidura carolinensis).—Abundant. All the specimens shot had the ends of the toes frozen off, showing that they had remained during the past severe winter.
Wild Turkey (Meleagris gallopavo americana).—Common. Scarcely a day but what one or more were seen, and on one occasion a flock of fourteen was met with. When surprised they fly into the swamp, where, alighting on the trees, they are secure from pursuit. The inhabitants pay no attention whatever to the game laws, and it is owing entirely to the safe retreat afforded by the swamp that the Turkeys have not been more nearly exterminated.
Virginia Quail (Ortyx virginiana).—Almost exterminated by the severe winter of 1880–81.
Green Heron (Butorides virescens).—Abundant. A small colony had their nests in a second-growth thicket, some distance from the swamp. The nests (seven in number) were placed in saplings at 12–15 feet from the ground, and, with two exceptions, contained five eggs each.
Yellow-crowned Night Heron (Nyctherodius violaceus).—Abundant, a colony of perhaps a hundred pairs having their nests among the tall ash and sweet-gum trees in a creek bottom, near the edge of the pond. The nests were mostly at a considerable height, and few of them readily accessible. They had just begun to lay, and were frightened away from the locality during a “wet spell” by squirrel hunters. A female was shot from her nest April 27, and a perfect egg cut from her oviduct. Several fine specimens of the bird were secured, and it was noticed that the delicate, almost luminous, yellowish buff of the forehead very soon faded.
American Woodcock (Philohela minor).—Common, breeding.