these difficulties a mass meeting was held at the Museum on 

 Monday, November 14, at which it was announced that for 

 every dollar sent to the chairman of the street tree commission 

 a tree would be planted on the streets. It was further provided 

 that requests for particular species or for trees to be planted at 

 a designated place or to replace defective trees, will be granted 

 subject to the approval of the forester. 



This plan places the responsibility for lack of trees upon the 

 community, and has the advantage of securing with every new 

 tree the interest of a citizen in the care of trees. It has been 

 successfully carried out in other cities, notably in Providence, 

 R. I., during the past summer, and should be effective wherever 

 a well-organized campaign is conducted. The active cooper- 

 ation of organizations and individuals throughout the city is 

 urgently desired in order that the movement for better trees in 

 Charleston may succeed. 



LOCAL FAUNA 



White Pelican in South Carolina. — On October 26, a White 

 Pehcan {Pelecanus erythrorhynchus) was shot in the Santee 

 swamp by a farmer, from whom it was obtained by Mr. William 

 C. Smith of Charleston, in whose possession it now is. The bird 

 measures approximately sixty-four inches in length as mounted, 

 and the bill thirteen inches. The primaries are black, and the 

 bill, pouch, and feet are yellow. These characters prove con- 

 clusively that the bird is not an albino Brown Pelican (P. occi- 

 dentalis), and thus establishes a record for a species which has 

 apparently not been taken in South Carolina for nearly a hundred 

 years. Mr. Wayne states' that he has never seen the White 

 Pelican on our coast, and quotes Bachman 's account as given by 



' Birdi of South Carolina. Contr. Chas. Mua. I, 1910, 12. 



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