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Collecting Birds and Mammals in North Carolina
To continue the collecting of birds and mammals in some of our mountainous states in the southeast, where a representative collection of the general run of common specimens was lacking in the National Museum , the officials of the museum decided to work this year in the State of North Carolina. This state is very interesting for this type of work because of its vast pine and cane covered coastal plains. with [[strike]] a [[/strike]] great [[strike]] many [[/strike]] cypress swamps along its many streams; the central part of the state [[strike]] is [[/strike]] the piedmont area, and [[strike]] in [[/strike]] the western part of the state the crest of the Appalachian range.
We had the excellent cooperation of Mr. J.D. Chalk, Commissioner of Game and Fish, Department of Conservation at Raleigh, N.C., whose ^[[insert]] kind [[/insert]] officer granted the necessary permits, also the officials connected with the National