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We had a very profitable stay here obtaining birds and mammals typical of this low country. While here we were joined by Dr. Alexander Witmore and Mr. J. E. Graf.
Leaving Engelhard on October 1st we moved west to Pitt County, collecting in the vicinity of Bethel. Along Conetoe Creek we found some very good stands of hardwood trees where we collected some very desirable specimens. Northwest of Greenville in Pitt County we collected in some large tracts of pine woods where we found white-eyed towhees, brown-headed nuthatches and red-cockaded woodpeckers quite abundant.
Our last two weeks were spent in and near the summer resort of Beaufort in Carteret County. We collected in the salt marshes and low pine lands. On several occasions