LOCAL FAUNA 



Winter Record for Anhinga in South Carolina. — We had been 

 having warm weather for several months and while walking along 

 the edge of a freshwater reserve on November 30, 1913, I saw a 

 bird which at first I took to be a Cormorant, but on closer ob- 

 servation I decided that it must be a Snakebird or Water Turkey 

 {Anhinga anhinga). Wayne, in his Birds of South Carolina, 

 states that this species migrates south on the approach of autumn, 

 the latest record having been made in September. I thought at 

 the time that this lone Anhinga was only a late migrant but on 

 visiting the same pond on December 30 I saw, not one lone 

 bird but a pair and I was told by a negro that there were four 

 Water Turkeys in that vicinity. 



I was very glad to find these birds so content and I wondered 

 whether they would spend the winter in this sheltered spot. On 

 January 1, however, I heard to my great sorrow that a man had 

 shot two Water Turkeys the day before. I fully expected that 

 the remaining pair would leave and I did not go back to the re- 

 serve until January 18. By this time the weather had changed 

 and there was a thin skin of ice on the ditches, but as I rode along, 

 anticipating a fruitless trip, I was startled by a great fluttering 

 and a Snakebird rose from nearly under my feet. I watched 

 this bird for a couple of hours and tried to obtain photographs 

 but was unable to get close enough. I was prevented from mak- 

 ing another trip to this vicinity, but if the bird was not disturbed 

 by man I am sure that it spent the remainder of the winter here. 



The freshwater reserve mentioned above is on Back River 

 about twenty-five miles from Charleston. — Caspar Chisolm. 



Winter Bird Notes. — The following notes are additional to the 

 Museum 's survey : 



Black-crowned Night Heron. — Mr. A. T. Wayne, in his Birds 

 of South Carolina, says of this heron {Nycticorax nycticorax 

 naevius) : ' ' During the past twenty-five years, I have never 

 observed an adult of this species in winter on any part of the coast.' 



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