ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES 



On October 17, while collecting birds for the Museum, I 

 was fortunate enough to secure a specimen' of Bewick's 

 Wren, Thryomanes bewickii (AuD.), a species which had 

 never before been taken on the South Carolina Coast. 

 The bird was taken in pine woods near the Navy Yard where 

 there was a considerable undergrowth of scrubby bushes. 

 Mr. A. T. Wayne, of Mount Pleasant, informs me that on 

 October 16, he saw, but failed to secure a specimen of this 

 wren near his house. Although abundant in some parts of 

 the interior, Bewick's Wren is rare and local east of the Al- 

 leghanies and in South Carolina had never been recorded 

 nearer the coast than the neighorhood of Columbia. 



Previous to the past summer, Worthington's Marsh Wren, 

 Telmatodytes palustris griseus (Brewst. ) , had been regarded 

 as a very rare bird on the South Carolina Coast. On June 2, 

 however, Mr. F. M. Weston, Jr., and myself established the 

 fact that a Marsh Wren, which, as we had long been aware, 

 bred abundantly in the marshes bordering Ashley River and 

 Wappoo Cut, was none other than this supposedly rare va- 

 riety. 



'Spec. No. 7080. Chas. Mus. 



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