xvi Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



2. Stelgidopterf/x serripennis. Rough-winged Swallow. 



3. Penthestcs carolinensis. Carolina Chickadee. 



The details of the ornithological work of Audubon and Bachman 

 are too well known to need further mention here. 



nominal lists. 



A nominal list of two hundred and seventy-one species of birds, 

 based on Audubon's Synopsis, appears in the Catalogue of the 

 Fauna of South Carolina, which Lewis Reeve Gibbes prepared for 

 publication in Tuomey's Report on the Geology of South Caro- 

 lina (1848). Professor Gibbes was a broad student of natural 

 science, whose interest in birds was greatest at the time he com- 

 piled this list. 



Before proceeding with the account of more scientific pub- 

 lications it may be noted that Simms' Geography of South Caro- 

 lina (184.3) contains casual mention of birds in the description of 

 the several districts of the State. Elliott's Carolina Sports by 

 Land and Water (1846) includes an annotated list "of the birds 

 which are the objects of sport. ' ' To these Loomis adds Burnett's 

 Notes on the Fauna of the Pine Barrens of Upper South Carolina 

 (1851),* and Logan's History of the Upper Country of South Car- 

 olina (1859) as containing references to birds. 



COUES. 



No further ornithological work seems to have been done in the 

 State until 1868, when Dr. Elliott Coues published a Synopsis of 

 the Birds of South Carolina,^ comprising two hundred and nine- 

 ty-four species. While this list was based on actual field work in 

 the vicinity of Columbia, during two years when Dr. Coues was 

 stationed there as an army surgeon, he was but twenty-six years 

 of age at the time, and the work is so unfortunately full of errors 

 that little dependence can be placed upon it. 



Dr. Coues has been the first to report the following species from 

 South Carolina, the query (?) indicating doubtful records: 



1. Uria lomvia. Briinnich's Murre. 



?. Empidonax flaviventris. Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. 



?. Spizella monticola. Tree SpaiTOw. 



?. Vireoslyva gilva. Warbling Vireo. 



^Proc. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. IV, 115-118. » Ibid, XII, 104-127, 



