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The Chat Volume 20 Number 4 (December 1956)

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Front Matter

Cover of The Chat Volume 20 Number 4 (December 1956)Cover: Eastern Phoebe, by Jack Dermid, Route 5, Raleigh, N. C.


Table of Contents

Contents

President's Page 64

Bird Navigation as Related to Migration. James B. Shuler, Jr. 65

Present Status of the List of Birds Occurring in South Carolina. Alexander Sprunt, Jr. 71

Editorial 72

Notice for 1956 Christmas Count 72

Book Review 72

Iowa Fish and Fishing. James R. Harlan and E. B. Speaker Reviewed by Douglas E. Wade 72

Nesting Observations of Brown-headed Nuthatches. Joseph and Rebekah Norwood 73

Backyard Birding. Annie Rivers Faver, Editor 75

General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain, Editor 77

A Common Loon in North Carolina in Mid-summer. Joseph R. Norwood 77

Observations at a Pied-billed Grebe's Nest. J. W. E. Joyner 77

Wilson's Petrel off the Beaufort. N. C. Coast. F. B. Meacham 78

Cattle Egrets Nesting in South Carolina. Ellison A. Williams 79

Glossy Ibis Nest in Charleston Harbor. Ernest Cutts 79

Coastal Colony Survey and Banding. Harry T. Davis 80

Notes on the September 1956 Broad-wing Movement Along the Blue Ridge. Fred W. Behrend 80

A Thick-billed Plover Egg in a Least Tern Nest. John B. Funderburg 81

Behavior: Chuck-will's-widow. Harry R. E. Hampton 81

Behavior: Swifts. W. L. McAtee 82

Warbling Vireo on S. C. Hypothetical List. J. B. Shuler, Jr. 82

Redstart Breeding in South Carolina. J. B. Shuler, Jr. 82

Briefs for the Files 83

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