exact reproduction of the Tanager's sharp, clucking call. To 

 make the deception complete, this was quickly followed by the 

 Tanager's song. It was not until I had found the mimic and 

 had watched him give the Tanager's call, the song, the call 

 again, then break into his own inimitable music that I could 

 believe that I had not made an early record for the Tanager. 

 We generally think of the Mockingbird as imitating only the 

 sounds about him, but here is an instance of his remembering 

 from the year before and exercising his memory at a very timely 

 season. 



Brown Thrasher. — In his "Birds of South Carolina," Mr. A. 

 T. Wayne says that full sets of the eggs of this species can gen- 

 erally be found by May 9. In the country immediately about 

 Charleston, however, I have, for several successive years, found 

 full sets of eggs by April 23. On April 29 of this year, I found 

 a set of four eggs which were hatching. As a Thrasher incu- 

 bates for twelve days, the set of eggs must have been complete 

 by April 17, and the first egg must have been laid not later than 

 April 13. F. M. Weston, Jr. 



Mr. C. A. Ruff has recently contributed material for an ex- 

 hibition of the work in Charleston Harbor of the ship worm, 

 Xylotrya fimbriata, and of the small crustacean Limnoria lig- 

 norum, both of which are so destructive to wharves and piles. 

 In the vicinity of Charleston a non-creosoted pile must be re- 

 placed every three years in consequence of the destruction caused 

 by these two small creatures. 



Among the specimens received since the publication of the 

 last Local Fauna notes are the following: — Shoveller {Spatula 

 clypeata) taken at Green Pond, Feburary 22, by F. S. Hanckel, 

 presented by F. S. Hanckel, Jr.; Wood Duck {Aix sponsa) taken 

 on Goose Creek by Mr. Edward S. Wells and presented by Mrs. 

 Edward S. Wells; Mourning Dove {Zenaidura macroura car- 

 olinensis) still in juvenile plumage, taken at Green Pond, Feb- 

 ruary 27, by Rev. E. A. Duff; mounted bats, and mouse and 

 bird skins cohected by Mr. Caspar Chisolm at McClure's Fork, 

 Virginia; skull of a porpoise from Bull's Bay, presented Mr. S. 

 Schultz. 



The collection of living animals has received numerous addi- 

 tions. Mr. Wm. Hinson secured for the Museum the female 

 opossum now exhibited in a large cage in the main hall. She and 

 her nine little 'possums have already been visited by five school 



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