RECENT ACCESSIONS 



One of the most important additions to the Museum during: 

 the summer months is a mounted specimen of the Limpkin 

 or Crying-bird {Aramiis gig anteiis) taken by Mr. W. L. Har- 

 ris, in his yard on Water Street, Charleston, in July, 1904. 

 The Limpkin ranges from Central America and the West 

 Indies north to Rio Grande Valley and Florida. The only 

 other record of its occurrence as far north as South Carolina 

 is that published in the Auk for April, 1906, by Mr. A. T. 

 Wayne, who has the skin of a Limpkin taken in Aiken 

 County in 1890. 



In September the Museum received from Mr. Kressel, of 

 the Terry Fish Company, a specimen of the Short Big-eye 

 iPseudoprlacanthus altus), taken on the Grouper Bank, off 

 Georgetown, in 30 fathoms of water. Unfortunately the 

 beautiful red color of this fish cannot be preserved, but the 

 specimen is of scientific importance as a record of the north- 

 ern limit of the adults of this species, though the young may 

 be carried north in the Gulf Stream as far as Rhode Island. 

 Specimens have also been taken on the Grouper banks by 

 C. C- Leslie at rare intervals. 



Several specimens of Aplysia, the sea-hare, were taken in 

 the harbor during the summer, and one of them was given 

 to the Museum. Aplysia is a gasteropod mollusc, about six 

 inches long, which emits a violet fluid when molested. 

 Aplysia is very rare about Charleston. 



The invertebrate collections have been largely increased 

 by material collected by the Director during the summer and 

 by purchase from the Laboratory at Wood's Hole, Mass. 

 Among many other interesting and beautiful specimens is a 

 fine Physalia, or Portuguese man-o'-war, which is one of 

 a fleet of more than 70 blown into Vineyard Sound from the 

 Gulf Stream. The Director hopes to have the invertebrate 

 collection arranged for exhibition during the winter. 



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