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[[strikethrough]] ing the area around [[/strikethrough]] ^[[a base at]] Southport. [[strikethrough]] Here one may see the [[/strikethrough]] ^[[Here we found]] beautiful painted buntings, ^[[with blue heads, green beaks and red breasts]] brown-headed nuthatches, red-cockaded woodpeckers, [[strikethrough]] white-eyed [[/strikethrough]] towhees ^[[with white eyes]] and many other interesting denizens of the southern woods. While here we [[strikethrough]] visited [[/strikethrough]] ^[[crossed to]] Smith Island which is just off the coast from Southport ^[[,]] where it is claimed that the only palm trees that grow ^[[naturally]] in the state are found. We did some very interesting work here.
Moving to the Richmond County ^[[for the latter part of May]] we worked in the cotton and corn growing section of the state along the Pee Dee River near Rockingham. We were fortunate to find a [[strikethrough]] southern [[/strikethrough]] area near the North Carolina - South Carolina state line where ^[[the southeastern fauna extended into the state and here]] we collected [[strikethrough]] some [[/strikethrough]] more southern birds, one being the white-eyed towhee.
The early part of June found me in Cherokee County near Muprhy [[line correcting the swapped p and r]] which is in the extreme southwestern part of [[strikethrough]] the state [[/strikethrough]] ^[[North Carolina]], investigating the mountains [[strikethrough]] in this region, [[/strikethrough]] Pack Mountain being the highest ^[[in this region]]. Completing [[strikethrough]] the work [[/strikethrough]] ^[[studies]] here, after much difficulty because of [[strikethrough]] the [[/strikethrough]] rainy weather, I went east to Franklin and worked in the Nantahala National Forest on Wayah Bald, Standing Indian and adjoining mountains. these mountains are well over 5000 feet but, being so far south, near the Georgia line, they lack the balsam and spruce trees which are [[strikethrough]] usually associated with a typical Canadian song. As [[/strikethrough]] ^[[found at similar altitudes a little farther north and so northern forms of birds and mammals do not occur]] ^[[Parts of]] Wayah Bald and Standing Indian Mountains are State Game Refuges, ^[[so]] [[strikethrough]] I had to confine [[/strikethrough]] my work ^[[was done]] out of the preserves. While in this area I visited Highlands to obtain a few specimens of [[strikethrough]] blue headed vireos. This [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] mountain form of the blue-headed vireo ^[[which]] was originally named from ^[[birds from that area]]
I spent the [[strikethrough]] last two weeks of the spring and summer trip [[/strikethrough]] ^[[first half of July]] in the beautiful and mountainous section in the northesastern part of the state,