BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 3 CHARLESTON, S. C, MAY, 1907 No. 5 



SYNOPSIS OF THE BIRD RECORDS OF THE NATURAL 

 HISTORY SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1906 



The Natural History Society is organized under the auspi- 

 ces of the Charleston Museum as a means of encouraging the 

 study of the fauna and flora of the Coast Region of South 

 Carolina. At present the society consists of but one section, 

 devoted to the study of birds. The records of this work are 

 kept on cards especially designed for the purpose^ and filed 

 in the Museum at the end of each month. 



We publish below a synopsis of the records made in the 

 first year of the society's work by several students of the 

 College of Charleston, with occasional reports from Mr. 

 Arthur T. Wayne, honorary curator of birds in the Museum 

 and other observers. 



This synopsis is not intended as a complete list of the 

 birds of the Coast Region of South Carolina. The inexperi- 

 ence of many of the observers accounts for the errors of 

 identification as indicated in the footnotes, while the irregu- 

 larity of field work and the difficulty of reaching the haunts 

 of the water birds explain, to a large extent, the incomplete- 

 ness of the list. It is printed chiefly as a guide for the future 

 work of the members of the Natural History Society, there 

 <=? being no accurate published list of the birds of this region. 



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1 See Bulletin of the College of Charleston Museum, Vol. I, No. 4, pp. 34-36. 



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