LIBRARY 



MEW YORK 

 BOTANICAL 



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OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 5 CHARLESTON, S. C, NOVEMBER, 1909 No. 7 



LOCAL FAUNA 



Further Notes on the Bird Life of a City Garden 

 By Herbert Ravenel Sass 

 An annotated list of ninety species of birds seen in or flying 

 over my garden in the southwestern part of Charleston was pub- 

 lished in the Bulletin ^ three years ago. An additional list of 

 sixteen species was printed the following year. ^ The further 

 notes given below include a number of species omitted from the 

 earlier lists because they could not be certainly identified, but 

 which have undoubtedly been seen from the garden, and should 

 therefore be included in its fauna; species which have been ob- 

 served for the first time since the last supplement was pubhshed; 

 and a number of species which do not visit the garden, but which 

 have been seen from the garden on the neighboring river and its 

 mud-flats. 



107. Loon. — On March 30, 1908, I saw from my window a 

 loon flying northward over the city. The species is not uncommon 

 on the rivers and harbor from early November until the end of 

 March. 



108. Laughing Gull. — Common in winter on the Ashley River, 

 sometimes flying over the garden. 



109. Bonaparte's Gull. — Sometimes common on the river 

 in winter and occasionally seen flying over the garden. 



> Vol. 2, No. 7, Nov., 1906. ' VoL 3, No. 6, Oct., 1907. 



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