1, 1912, off the Battery, Caspar Chisolm. Other records based 

 on close study by careful observers during the winter may now 

 be accepted as probably correct. — P. M. Rea. 



Black and White Warbler.— One bird seen in garden on March 

 23, 1912, constitutes the earliest record for this species of which 

 we have data. Audubon says it arrives early in April. Wayne 

 states that he has seen it in the middle of March, but says he has 

 lost the record. He gives March 27 and 28 as the normal dates. 



Chimney Swift. — Several observed near Legare Street on March 

 23. This is my earliest record except in 1902, and earlier, I 

 judge, than Wayne's.^ 



Both these unusually early rcords are interesting in that they 

 seem to indicate that the fact that the spring has been unusually 

 late will not make the spring migrants unusually late in arriving. 



The hurricane and the Waxwings. — An interesting effect of 

 the hurricane of August, 1911, upon the bird life of Charleston 

 has just come to light this spring. For the first time in at least 

 ten years the cedar Waxwing (Bomhy cilia cedrorum), usually a 

 common bird in the city from January or February through April, 

 has failed to put in an appearance. It is possible that a few 

 may have been seen in the city by other observers; but in large 

 and well-wooded lots and gardens in the lower part of town, 

 where these birds are usually common m early spring, not one 

 has been seen this year. 



The reason is plain enough. The Waxwings have not come to 

 town because the hurricane of last August so affected certain 

 trees that the plant products to obtain which the Waxwings 

 come to the city were not produced this spring. These plant 

 products are mainly elm seeds and berries of the large-leaved or 

 Japanese privet. The hurricane killed at least half the Japan- 

 ese privet trees and so weakened the others that they produced 

 no berries this year; while the elms that withstood the fury of the 

 wind were so mutilated and lost so many of their smaller Umbs 

 and twigs t hat the elm seed crop this spring has been practically 



>The Chimney Swift was seen in the city this year on March 21 by Mr. Rhett Cham- 

 berlain and has been seen daily since that date. — Editor. 



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