. Birds of North Carolina . -notes of the are regarded as game-birds, and are commonly shot in the autumn from boatsliunted through the marshes at high tide. In some locaUties they are particularlynumerous in summer. Such a place Pearson found Jacks CJrass to be on May 13,1898. We quote from notes made at the time: This is a low island of jierhapstwenty acres, situated in Pamlico Somid. very near New Inlet. A chamiel runs on Descriptive List 109 eitlier side. It has no trees, but is covered rather uniformly wath grass eight orten inches high. Small clumps of rushes, growng rarely o
. Birds of North Carolina . -notes of the are regarded as game-birds, and are commonly shot in the autumn from boatsliunted through the marshes at high tide. In some locaUties they are particularlynumerous in summer. Such a place Pearson found Jacks CJrass to be on May 13,1898. We quote from notes made at the time: This is a low island of jierhapstwenty acres, situated in Pamlico Somid. very near New Inlet. A chamiel runs on Descriptive List 109 eitlier side. It has no trees, but is covered rather uniformly wath grass eight orten inches high. Small clumps of rushes, growng rarely over three feet high, are,however, scattered over the island. The earth at these spots is usually elevatedabout a foot above the surrounding marsh, and in nearly every one of them a railsnest was found. These were composed entirely of marsh-grass, blades and stalks,anil were built from six to eight inches above the wet sod. The fragments of grassused varied from four to six inches in length, shorter pieces being employed for. Fig. 71. the top layers. The nests measured about eight inches across the top, the horizontalthickness being uniform from the bottom. Each of two of the nests examined heldeight slightly incubated eggs, and one with ten eggs was seen. One was found withtwo freshly deposited eggs, and another \v\th four incubated eggs. Eggshells fromwhich the young had but shortly departed were found in one instance. Usually theeggs were not screened from \aew by any arching of the grass or rushes. Alongthe banks of the tide-creeks the marsh-grass was often two feet or more in were the many covered runways of the birds, some of them several yards inlength. 110 Birds of North Carolina I This visit to Jacks Grass was in the days before the discovery of the varietyknown as TVaynos Rail, wliich very closely resembles the Clajjijcr Rjiil, and as nospecimens were shot and preserved, it is impossible to state which of the two formsmay have predominated. C
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