which I saw was a Cliff Swallow, the record can hardly be admit- 

 ted as absolutely authentic. 



The Fall Migration in the City .—Unusually warm weather during 

 practically the whole of the first three weeks of October caused a 

 strange cessation in the Southward migration as observed in the 

 city. During September the migration proceeded actively and an 

 unusual number of migrants were seen, In my garden I saw more 

 Prothonotary Warblers and Grinnell 's Water Thrushes than ever 

 before. In October, however, the movement seemed to cease al- 

 most entirely and very few migrants were observed. — Herbert 

 R. Sass. 



Breeding of the Barn Owl. — Mr. Arthur T. Wayne has published 

 an account' of the finding of a set of eggs of the Barn Owl {Aluco 

 pratincola) on this coast during the month of September. He 

 also refers to Audubon's discovery of a nest containing young 

 birds which he (Audubon) concluded were hatched in September. 

 Mr. T. Gilbert Pearson^ records this bird as breeding on the coast 

 of South Carolina in April. In view of this a recent record (con- 

 firmatory of Mr. Wayne's record) may be of interest. 



On September 24, 1910 after rowing across the Ashley River 

 from Charleston, I landed at the Wappoo FertiUzer Mills, an aban- 

 doned and much dilapidated group of buildings. On the top of 

 one of these buildings I found a set of four eggs placed in a large 

 box which was suppoarted by huge beams. As I approached the 

 box an old owl jumped out and flew through a broken window. 

 On examining the interior of the box I found that its contents 

 were mostly old bones and feathers, while around the box and be- 

 low some of the rafters I saw only disgorged hair and bones. This 

 indicates that the old owls tear the flesh from the bones to feed 

 their young, while they themselves swallow bones, feathers, and 

 all. The building has probably been abandoned for about fifteen 

 years and I suppose that the owls have been breeding in it ever 

 since. This would account for the great accumulation of bones 

 and feathers. I also found in this box parts of the Meadowlark 

 {Sturnella magna), the Green Heron {Butorides virescens) and the 

 Marsh Hen {Rallus crepitans or R. c. waynei) . Below the box I saw 

 the skin of a black rat, and found the skull of a sparrow. Of the 

 eggs taken, two were fresh, the third nearly so, while the fourth 

 contained a small embryo. — Rhett Chamberlain. 



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