The Chat Volume 23 Number 4 (December 1959)
Front Matter
Cover:
“After a thunderstorm, this Cattle Egret assumed a
statuesque pose at its nesting site on Drum Island, S. C.” We are indebted
to Walter Dawn for the use of this copyrighted photograph by him.
Contents
The Amateur and the Study of Bird Behavior. Andrew J. Meyerriecks 75
CBC Field Meeting at Morehead City 81
Brown-headed Nuthatch—A Second Brood. Joseph and Rebekah Norwood 82
Backyard Birding. Annie Rivers Faver, editor 83
General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain, editor 86
Audubon Shearwater near Wilmington. Greg Massey 86
The Drum Island Heron Colony. Ernest Cutts 86
Ruddy Duck breeding in South Carolina. E. B. Chamberlain 87
Swallow-tailed Kites at Hatteras. C. C. Steirly 87
Black Rail. Wendell P. Smith 87
Black-necked Stilt. John H. Grey 87
Northern Phalarope. John H. Grey 88
White-winged Dove. John H. Grey 88
Ground Dove. John H. Grey 88
Sprague's Pipit at Chapel Hill. George A. Smith 89
Redstart nesting at Fayetteville, N. C. Edna L. Appleberry 89
Notes 90, 91
Index to The Chat—Volume 23 91
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