The Chat Volume 17 Number 4 (December 1953)
Front Matter
Cover: Canada Geese at Gaddy's Pond, Anson Co., N. C. by Jack Dermid, Wildlife Resources Commission, Raleigh, N. C.
Contents
Pea Island National Wildlife Refuge, North Carolina. U. S. Dept, of Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service 78
You, the Forest, and Wildlife. Douglas Wade 81
Backyard Birding. Annie Rivers Faver, editor 85
Editorial 88
A Spring Visit to Winston-Salem. W. L. McAtee 89
General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain, editor 91
Loon Flight at Cape Lookout, N. C. D. L. Wray, Harry T. Davis, Glenn Hampton and Steve Messenger 91
Greater Shearwater at Morehead City, N. C. Robert Holmes, III 92
Yellow-crowned Night Heron Nesting in Columbus Co., N. C. John B. Funderburg, Jr. 92
Wood Ibis in Tyrell County, N. C. Robert L. Wolff 92
White Ibises in the Interior of North Carolina. Edward Kissam 92
Swallow-tailed Kite over Pitt County, N. C. Robert L. Wolff 93
Sparrow Hawk Breeding at Wilmington, N. C. John B. Funderburg, Jr. 93
Florida Gallinule in Columbia, S. C. Eddie Finlay 93
Golden Plovers in the Carolinas. B. R. Chamberlain 93
Shore-Birds at Wilmington, N. C. Edna Appleberry 94
Horned Larks Nesting at Winston-Salem, N. C. Edward Kissam 94
Swainson's Warbler Breeding in Georgetown County, S. C. Earl M. Hodel 94
Unusually High Nest of the Cardinal. David Monteith 94
Dickcissels at Lenoir, N. C. Mrs. Fred H. May 95
Late White-throated Sparrow at Wilmington, N. C. John Funderburg, Jr. 95
Song Sparrow Nesting in Greenville County, S. C. Donald J. Nicholson 95
Snow Buntings Near Pittsboro, Chatham County, N. C. Clara Hearne 96
New and Reinstated Members. Compiled by Edwin W. Winkler. Inside Back Cover
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