Front Matter

Cover: Blue Goose at Hill's Pond, Eastover, S. C. See Page 30. Photo by Gordon H. Brown of S. C. Wildlife Resources Dept.

Table of Contents

Contents

President's Page. Gilbert Bristow 1

Christmas Count—1958. B. R. Chamberlain 2

Correction 6

Redwing Roost. J . W. E. Joyner 12

The Wildlife Refuge at Orton Plantation. Kenneth M. Sprunt 13

I Saw the World's Rarest Bird! Jack P. Hailman 15

An Undescribed Heron Colony in Southeastern North Carolina. John B. Funderburg 17

The Breeding Birds of Battery Island. John B. Funderburg 19

William Harvey on Social Factors and Reproduction. Frank N. Egerton, III 20

The 1960 Spring Count. B. R. Chamberlain 21

General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain, editor 22

Fulvous Tree Ducks again in the Savannah Refuge. E. O. Mellinger 22

Fulvous Tree Ducks at Wilmington. Dept. Editor 22

Peak Wildfowl Populations. B. R. Chamberlain 23

Black Rail at Wilmington. John M. Irvine, Jr. 24

Glaucous Gull at Southport, N. C. John M. Irvine, Jr 24

Banded Pea Island Gull Recovered in Cuba. Jack P. Hailman 24

Golden Plovers and a Red Phalarope at North Wilkesboro. Wendell P. Smith 24

A Murre in Pamlico Sound, North Carolina. John B. Funderburg, Jr., and Joseph R. Bailey 25

Horned Lark at Wrightsville Beach, N. C. Grey Massey 25

Black-billed Magpie at Chapel Hill, N. C. Joe Jones 25

Bullock's Oriole in Eastern North Carolina. B. R. Chamberlain 26

Red Crossbills at Greensboro, N. C. George A. Smith 27

Redpolls near Hatteras and Charleston. James E. Ames, Jr. 27

Lark Sparrow at North Wilkesboro, N. C. Wendell P. Smith 27

Oregon Junco collected in North Carolina. Mrs. Jack Potter 27

Tower Casualties at Charlotte, N. C. Joseph R. Norwood 28

Briefs for the Files 28

Backyard Birding Annie Rivers Faver, editor 30

Notes and News 37

Membership List 39

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