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COLLECTING BIRDS AND MAMMALS IN NORTH CAROLINA.
^[[By W. M. Perrygo]]

     To continue [[strikethrough]] the collecting of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[work on the geographic distribution of]] birds and mammals in some of our mountainous states in the southeast, where a representative collection of the general run of common specimens [[strikethrough]] was [[/strikethrough]] ^[[has been]] lacking in the National Museum, the officials of the Museum decided to work this year in [[strikethrough]] the state of [[/strikethrough]] North Carolina. This state is [[strikethrough]] very [[/strikethrough]] ^[[most]] interesting for this type of work because ^[[of its variety of terrain. On the broad coastal plain are vast areas covered by]] [[strikethrough]] of its vast [[/strikethrough]] pine and cane [[strikethrough]] covered coastal plains [[/strikethrough]] with great cypress swamps along [[strikethrough]] its [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the lower courses of the]] many streams [[strikethrough]] , [[/strikethrough]] The ^[[undulating]] central part of the state, the Piedmont area, ^[[with its broad farms and wooded hills leads gradually into the western mounts and so to the high]] [[strikethrough]] and the western part of the state the [[/strikethrough]] crest of the Appalachian range.
     ^[[Throughout the season]] we had the [[strikethrough]] excellent [[/strikethrough]] ^[[friendly]] cooperation of Mr. J.D. Chalk, Commissioner of Game and Fish, Department of Conservation^[[,]] at Raleigh, [[strikethrough]] N.C., whose kind offices granted [[/strikethrough]] ^[[in]] the necessary permits ^[[and in other ways]], also the ^[[help of]] officials 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 [[strikethrough]] cypress swamps of the [[/strikethrough]] northeastern part of the state near Elizabeth City. Here we remained for about two weeks working in the cypress swamps, ^[[in]] pine woods, along river banks, and ^[[through the]] farm lands [[strikethrough]] collecting some of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[searching for]] the desired birds and mammals. As the spring migration [[strikethrough]] was about to commence, [[/strikethrough]] ^[[began in full force]] we moved inland to Sampson County in the vicinity of Clinton and worked along the streams and cypress swamps obtaining many interesting specimens.
     [[strikethrough]] About the middle of [[/strikethrough]] ^[[The first week in]] May, we [[strikethrough]] moved [[/strikethrough]] ^[[continued]] down to Brunswick County in the lower austral zone [[strikethrough]] into [[/strikethrough]] ^[[of]] the extreme southeastern part of the state ^[[, establishing]] [[strikethrough]] work- [[/strikethrough]]