The specimen taken on Back River is a fine adult male in full 

 plumage with the breast and under-parts a delicate peach-blos- 

 som color. The skin is now in the collection of the Charleston 

 Museum (Spec. No. 7258).— Caspar Chisolm. 



Spiny Lobster. — The Museum has received as the gift of Capt. 

 Wm. Rock a fine Spiny Lobster (Spec. No. 4227), provisionally 

 identified as Pamdirus argus (Latreille), taken about thirty-five 

 miles east of Charleston in sixteen fathoms of water on coral bot- 

 tom. It was brought up on a hand line, the hook having caught 

 in a joint of the second antenna, and had already been cooked 

 for the table when secured for the Museum. This is the first 

 record for this species off this coast as far as the writer is aware. 

 —P. M. Rea. 



A New Squid for South Carolina.— A Squid found stranded on 

 the beach at the Isle of Palms (Long Island) on March 15, by 

 Messrs. Fred L. Lineberger and V. L. Fulmar, is referred provis- 

 ionally to Loligo gahi, a new species for the coast of South Carolina. 

 It measures nearly eighteen inches over the mantle, and four feet 

 from the end of the body to the tip of the tentacular arms. This 

 large squid is now in the Museum collection (Spec. No. 4228). 

 —P. M. Rea. 



Shoveller. — On February 8, 1911, I secured from the Charleston 

 Market an adult female Shoveller, Spatula clypeata (Linn). The 

 bird was evidently killed not far from here as it was in perfectly 

 fresh condition. The Shoveller is never abundant in South Caro- 

 lina and this record is the first for the biological survey. — Julian 

 Mitchell, Jr. 



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