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The Chat Volume 23 Number 3 (September 1959)

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Front Matter

Cover of The Chat Volume 23 Number 3 (September 1959)Cover: Red-eyed Vireo brooding young in nest, Nash Co., N. C. Photo by Jack Dermid.


Table of Contents

Contents

President's Page 45

The 1959 Spring Count. B. R. Chamberlain 47

Barn-Swallowing and my experience in locating their nests. Mary Keller Wintyen 55

Backyard Birding. Annie Rivers Faver, Editor 57

A Sin Against our Scenery 61

Request for Information. Horace Loftin 61

General Field Notes B. R. Chamberlain , Editor 62

Eared Grebe at Charleston, S. C. E. B. Chamberlain 62

Tropic-bird off the South Carolina Coast. Peter Manigault 62

Ward's Great Blue Heron near Raleigh, N. C. John B. Funderburg 62

Expansion of Cattle Egret Nesting in North Carolina in 1959. T. L. Quay and John B. Funderburg, Jr 63

A Mallard Nesting Record for South Carolina. John B. Hatcher 63

European Quail. Charles H. Blake 64

Indication of Coot Nesting in S. C. Ernest Cutts 64

Long-billed Curlew on the Coast. Robert C. DaCosta 65

Ruff on Upper North Carolina Coast. Paul W. Sykes, Jr 65

Glaucous Gull at Oregon Inlet. Paul W. Sykes, Jr., E. Alexander Bergstrom 65

Common Tern: Behavior. J. W. E. Joyner 66

Sooty Terns at Cape Lookout, N. C. J. W. E. Joyner 66

Barred Owl Fishing. Sam Sweeny 66

Saw-whet Owl, Peregrine Falcon, Chimney Swift at Mount Mitchell. David A. Adams 66

Gray Kingbird in the North Carolina Piedmont John B. Funderburg and Robert L. Soots 67

Bobolink Breeding at North Wilkesboro, N. C. Wendell P. Smith 67

Cowbirds Breeding at Chapel Hill. Wiley B. Sanders and Charles H. Blake 68

Dickcissel Again at Charlotte. Mrs. E. J. Presser 68

Briefs for the Files 68

Reviews 69, 71

Editorial 70

CBC Field Trips 70

Nest Records 72

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