BULLETIIV 



OF 



THE CHARLESTON MUSEUM 



Vol. 7 CHARLESTON, S. C, NOVEMBER, 1911 No. 7 



LOCAL FAUNA LIBRARY 



NBW YOS 



Recent Bird Records BOTANIC; 



Audubon's Shearwater on Sullivan's Island. — On the night of <*AlCl>e^ 



August 10, 1911, while walking on the front beach of Sullivan's 

 Island and opposite Station 26^, Maynard Robertson picked up a 

 dead but fairly fresh specimen of Audubon's Shearwater {Puffi- 

 nus Vherminieri Lesson). The bird was in good condition with 

 the exception of a small hole in the throat, and showed strong 

 evidence of having been washed ashore by the waves. 



Mr. Wayne in his Birds of South CaroUna says of this species: 

 ' ' Audubon 's Shearwater is a fairly abundant species off the coast 

 during the summer months. One specimen has been taken in 

 Charleston Harbor. A great many of these birds must have 

 perished during the cyclone of August 27-28, 1893. A single 

 individual was found dead on Long Island beach a few days after 

 the cyclone. ' ' 



Prof. Ellison A. Smyth has recorded two specimens secured at 

 the mouth of the Stono River near Bird Key on August 4, 1888, 

 and Mr. Wayne had previously captured a single specimen on 

 Sullivan's Island. 



The bird here recorded seems to be the first taken since the 

 cyclone of 1893, but was not, as in the case of the one taken on 

 Long Island at that time, driven ashore by the wind, since the 

 weather for the preceding week was fairly calm and by no means 



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