of the records for some of the ducks, shore birds, sparrows, etc., 

 is due to difficulty in distinguishing shy or similar species in the 

 field. The most complete records are for land birds in and im- 

 mediately about Charleston. 



The most important results have been the finding of Bewick's 

 Wren on the coast, establishing the abundance of Worthington's 

 Marsh Wren near Charleston, discovery of breeding colonies of 

 Snowy Herons, records for the Little Blue Heron in winter else- 

 where than on the sea-islands, rare records for the Frigate Bird, 

 Red-throated Diver, and Red-breasted Nuthatch, winter records 

 for the Carolina Rail, summer records for the American Coot, 

 and late records for the Black and White Creeper. 



A\'hen this survey was begun the only available list of birds 

 of the state was that published by Coues,^ which was based 

 chiefly upon work in the vicinity of Columbia and which 

 proved of little use for the coast. 



This circumstance would have made the entire work extremely 

 difficult had not Mr. Arthur T. Wayne, honorary curator of 

 birds in the Museum and an honorary member of the .society, 

 supplied the local status of the species observed by him during 

 twenty-five years of ornithological work. When the records of 

 the survey are insufficient to establish the local status of a 

 species, the local status as furnished by Mr. Wayne is enclosed 

 in square brackets [ ]. Species are stated to breed only when 

 shown to do so by the records of the survey. 



In addition to the bibliograjihical references in the footnotes 

 attention should be called to the numerous publications of Mr. 

 A. T. Wayne in the Auk during many years, to a paper by Mr. 

 H. R. Sass on the "Bird Life of a City Garden" in the Bulletin,' 

 and to the annual summaries of the bird records of the Natural 



^Synopsis of the birds of South Carolina. Proc. Boston Soc. Nat. Hist., Vol. 22, pp. 

 104-127, Oct., 1868. 



=Vol. 2, No. 7, Nov., 1906 and Vol. 3, No. 6, p. 53, Oct., 1907. 



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