Section II comprises the birds which have been reported 

 this year by members of the Society. 



Winter Visitants — birds which come from the north in 

 the fall, pass the winter with us, and leave again in the 

 spring— are to be found in the central portion of the case. 

 This group is also divided into the sections of reported and 

 unreported birds as described above. The large number of 

 water-fowl is a striking feature of this portion of the exhibit. 

 Since many of these winter visitors take their leave during 

 the present and the coming month, individual birds will be 

 rem.oved from the exhibit as soon as their departure is re- 

 corded. 



Spring Migrants comprise those birds which pass 

 through this region on their way to their summer homes in 

 the north. The present month witnesses the real begin- 

 ning of this migration. As the time approaches for the ar- 

 rival of these transient visitors they will be placed on exhibi- 

 tion that their appearance may becomie familiar to the ob- 

 server, and when actually reported by a member of the 

 Society they will be transferred to a '"reported" section of 

 migrants. A bulletin of "Spring Arrivals" is posted near 

 the exhibition case, and upon this will be found the name 

 of the first three observers of each new-comer, together with 

 the date of observed arrival. 



Summer Residents are those birds which come from the 

 south in the spring, remain to rear their young in this region 

 and depart again in the fall. This group will be found at 

 the extreme right of the case, and its treatment will be 

 similar to that of the Migrants as described above. 



The exhibit described above is arranged on the basis of 

 the "Synopsis of the Birds of South Carolina" published 

 by Elliot Coues in 1868. This is the first and only complete 

 list of the birds of this State having as its basis original field 

 tvork.* Since its publication 38 years have elapsed, and it is 



*L. M. Loomis," An Historical Sketch of South Carolinian Ornithology. ('91.) 



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