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shore birds, sparrows, etc. In spite of these difficulties many 

 important records have been made and published in the Bulletin 

 of the Museum and elsewhere. When these records extend those 

 given in the text of this book they have been inserted as edito- 

 rial footnotes, since Mr. Wayne has been prevented by prolonged 

 illness from revising the manuscript during its preparation for 



the printers. 



other workers. 



The work of other ornithologists in South Carolina is reviewed 

 in the text or cited in the bibliography at the end of the book. 



DISTRIBUTION OF FIELD WORK. 



Mr. Wayne has worked in the counties of Charleston, Berke- 

 ley, Dorchester, Colleton, Beaufort, and Hampton, with four 

 months in Greenville County. He has never been in Horry or 

 Georgetown counties, and has not been in Beaufort or Hampton 

 since 1891 . He spent the winter, spring, and summer of 1887, the 

 months of January and February, 1888, and part of August, 1890, 

 at Yemassee and vicinity. In the spring of 1891 he worked in 

 the Savannah River swamp from Purysburg to a point opposite 

 the city of Savannah. He has devoted particular attention to 

 Sullivan's, Long, Dewees, Capers', and Bull's islands, with the 

 adjacent salt marshes and sounds. Much of his early work was 

 done on Sullivan's Island, while the later years have been spent 

 on the more northern islands. The work of Audubon and Bach- 

 man covered almost the same region as that of Mr. Wayne. 



The Charleston Museum has a few records for Georgetown, based 

 on work done by Mr. Weston in that vicinity. 



Chester, Greenville, and Pickens counties were thoroughly 

 worked by Mr. Loomis from 1876 to 1892. His records form the 

 basis of the references in the text to the upper parts of the State. 



The region about Columbia has been worked by Lewis Reeve 

 Gibbes, Robert W. Gibbes, and EUiott Coues. 



