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The Chat Volume 17 Number 3 (September 1953)

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Front Matter

Cover of The Chat Volume 17 Number 3 (September 1953)Cover: Wood Thrush at nest, photographed by Jack Dermid in Wilson Co., N. C., June, 1953.


Table of Contents

Contents

The President's Page 53

The Kites Over Santee. E. Durham Chamberlain 54

Upper Currituck Sound, 1910 and Later. W. L. McAtee 57

Backyard Birding. Annie Rivers Faver, editor 59

The American Woodcock in North Carolina. T. Stuart Critcher and T. L. Quay 62

General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain, editor 69

Red-necked Grebe near Wilmington. Thomas W. Simpson, M.D. 69

White Pelicans at Lake Junaluska, Haywood Co., N. C. Sarah Lesley 69

Frigate-bird on the North Carolina Coast. David A. Adams 70

The White-tailed Kite near Clemson, South Carolina. Douglas E. Wade 70

Nesting Data on the Killdeer. David Monteith 70

Pectoral Sandpiper at Aiken, S. C. William Post, Jr. 71

Glaucous Gull (?) at Oregon Inlet, N. C. Dept. Ed. 72

Short-eared Owls at the Santee National Wildlife Refuge, Summerton, S. C. Robert J. Lemaire 72

Scissor-tailed Flycatchers in the Carolinas. Dept. Ed. 73

Horned Larks: Range Extension. Dept. Ed. 73

Brewer's Blackbirds in Spartanburg County, S. C. Gabriel Cannon 74

Rose-breasted Grosbeak at Wilmington, N. C. Merrill P. Spencer, M.D. 74

Dickcissel at Morganton, N. C. James C. Taylor 75

Song Sparrow Nesting at Clemson, S. C. Douglas E. Wade 75

Briefs for the Files 76

The 1953 Spring Census. B. R. Chamberlain 76

New and Re-instated Members. Compiled by Edwin W. Winkler Inside Back Cover

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