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Caesar's Head, Bradford, and Sassafras Mountains -- the latter being about 3500 ft. in elevation, and the entire area the most elevated in the state. The slopes are steep and deciduously wooded and hoased more of the mountain forms than the previous section despite the absence of typical Canadian flora. A few pairs of song sparrows were nesting here, in addition to chestnut-sided warblers. This completed the spring and summer investigation for the season, and we returned to Washington July 23. 

Accompanied by John Webb of the Division of Birds, I left for the fall collecting trip September 14. Our first step was at Rock Hill above the Fall Line in northern South Carolina. Most of our work was along the rolling hills bordering the Catawba River and in the wooded bottom lands so typical of the Piedmont region. In spite of the unusually warm weather we found representatives of the birds that we needed to tie in with those collected in North Carolina just to the north along the same river during the previous year. On October 2 we moved eastward to the Cheraw to work along the Pee Dee River. The extensive swamps along the river yielded many valuable specimens. 

From here on October 16 we continued southward to Allendale to complete the work along the Savannah River. Through the courtesy of Mr. R. B. Vance of Allendale who gave us permission to collect on his farm we found an excellent concentration of birdlife in the cypress swamps, open pine woods, and along the edges of the fields - all within a short radius, which is most unusual for the coastal plain.