ture, turkey buzzard, Carolina dove, bob-white, Wilson's 

 plover, killdeer plover, clapper rail, bald eagie, great blue 

 heron, wood ibis. 



Winter Visitants.— Hermit thrush, ruby-crov/ned king- 

 let, golden-crowmed kinglet, myrtle warbler, white-throated 

 sparrow, Savannah sparrow, junco, vesper sparrow, rusty 

 grackle, titlark, scaup duck, hooded merganser, red-thrcated 

 diver, canvas-back duck, herring gull, ring-billed gull, pied- 

 billed grebe, oyster catcher. 



SPiiiNG Migrants. — Parula warbler, blue-gray gnat- catch- 

 er, Bartramian sandpiper, bank-swallow, white-bellied 

 swallow. 



Summer Residents. — Swainson's warbler, Maryland yellow 

 throat, yellow warbler, yellow-throated warbler, purple 

 martin, white-eyed vireo, nonpareil, chimney sv/it't, swallow- 

 tailed kite, little blue heron. 



THE DR. EDAiUND RAVENSL CONCiiOLOOlCAL 



COLLECTION 



One of the most important recent additions to the Museum 

 is the large and valuable conchological collection of the late 

 Dr. Edmund Ravenel, of Charleston, which contains some 

 3500 species of land, fresh water, and marine shells from all 

 parts of the world. Dr. Ravenel was a contemporary of 

 Say, Lea, Conrad, Le Seuer, Gould, and others of the pioneers 

 of conchological research in the United States, whose labors 

 in the first half of the nineteenth century brought to the 

 attention of the scientific world the wealth of new material 

 which strewed our beaches from Nova Scotia to Mexico and 

 abounded in the rivers and streams from the Atlantic to the 

 Mississippi, and his intimate association and co-operation 

 with these eminent students enabled him to obtain a large 

 number of their types, or of species determined by their 

 authors. 



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