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one may see the beautiful painted buntings, brown-headed nuthatches, red cockaded woodpeckers, white-eyed towhees and many other interesting denizens of  the southern woods. While here we visited Smith Island which is just off the coast from Southport where it is claimed that the only palm trees that grow in the state are found. We did some very interesting work here.
  Moving to Richmond County, 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 southern area near the North Carolina- South Carolina state line where we collected some southern birds, one being the white-eyed towhee.
  The early part of June found me in Cherokee County near Murphy, which is in the extreme Southwestern part of the state, investigating the