78 THE WILSON BULLETIN— June, 1921 



to the surface of the water awaiting an opportunity to 

 make a meal of heron's eggs. At such times a close ap- 

 proach was impossible, as the reptiles would plunge into 

 the water below while I still was some distance away. 



PhUoheln minor — Woodcock. 



This fine bird is rare at all times in the immediate 

 vicinity of Savannah but probably occurs more numerously 

 in the less settled sections of the county. On February 

 8, 1017, , Mr. W. M. Kidwell of Savannah collected a fine 

 set of four fresh eggs near Pooler. This set is now in the 

 collection of T. I). Perry. These are the only eggs of this 

 species that have been taken in the county. On April 8, 

 1917, while in company with T. 1). I'erry, I flushed an 

 adult and four nearly grown young from a cover of tall 

 dried gTass interlaced with low bushes in a tract of wet 

 woods just east of Big Four Park. Although I saw the 

 exact spot where two of the birds alighted, I did not again 

 succeed in flushing them. The locality where I noted these 

 birds affords ideal nesting sites for this species, and tliere 

 is no doubt in my mind that this brood was hatched close 

 to the point where I noted it. 



Catoptrophorus semipalmatus semipahnatus — Willet. 



The Willet's haunts are sand banks and mud flats ad- 

 jacent to sounds and inlets, from which, during low tide, 

 when they are exposed, the birds glean an abundant supply 

 of food. This species breeds abundantly on most of the 

 small coastal islands and hammocks between Tybee and 

 Warsaw islands. Apparently it is absent from Ossabaw 

 island, for I noted none on the nortli end of that island 

 during a part of May, 1915. Its center of abundance on 

 the coast of Chatham county is the southern end of Cabbage 

 island, where numbers annually resort to breed. It nests 

 sparingly on Buck Hammock, Svhere I noticed a nest on 

 June 14, 1914, containing four eggs on the point of hatch- 

 ing. On July 4, 1915, I flushed an adult from a nest on 

 Cabbage - island containing four eggs which also were on 

 the point of hatching. This is my latest breeding record. 

 In 1917 I again visited Cabbage island, and on May 10 



