In view of this statement it will perhaps be interesting to note 

 that for the last three winters I have, during Christmas visits, 

 observed a flock of adult birds with one or two immature, at 

 Enterprise, on Wadmalaw Island. This flock, consisting of 

 about fifteen herons, stays throughout the day in a small group 

 of live oaks on the edge of a creek, and on the approach of dusk 

 goes out to spend the night on the adjoining mud-flats. 



Yellow-crowned Night Heron. — On the afternoon of March 

 8, 1914, while walking through Magnolia Cemetery, I saw an 

 immature heron of this species {Nyctanassa violacea) feeding on 

 the edge of one of the small ponds near the entrance. I watched 

 it for perhaps a quarter of an hour and noticed that it carried one 

 foot limp, not using it at all. This probably accounts for our 

 having with us at this time a bird which Mr. Wayne says does 

 not winter here owing to its susceptibility to frost. — E. Burnham 

 Chamberlain. 



A Winter Record for the Osprey. — On December 31, 1913, 

 during a short stay on Wadmalaw Island, I saw a Fish Hawk 

 (Pandion haliaetus caroUnensis) flying slowly over Wadmalaw' 

 Sound. Although records for this season are scarce, this bird 

 undoubtedly winters in small numbers on our coast. — B. Rhett 

 Chamberlain. 



Piping Plover. — While collecting for the Museum on the east- 

 ern end of Sullivan's Island on the morning of March 17, 1914, 

 I shot a Piping Plover {Aegialitis meloda). The bird is an adult 

 male in late winter plumage, the dark markings on the front of 

 the crown and on the sides of the breast being not yet quite 

 black. Mr. Wayne, in Birds of South Carolina, says that this 

 bird is a transient visitant, arriving during the second week in 

 March, in winter plumage, and at once commencing to moult 

 the feathers of the head and breast, assuming their summer plum- 

 age by April 10. He also states that this species is very uncom- 

 mon, in fact rare. This is the first record made by the Museum 

 survey, although there is one entered by Mr. Wayne in 1911. — 

 E. BuBNHAM Chamberlain. 



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