24 Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



to the contrary, and upon the approach of spring the bird, of 

 course, migrated. 



A specimen of this species was taken at Ridge Springs, Edge- 

 field county, on November 26, 1907. The bird was sent for 

 mounting to Mr. James P. Garick, Jr., of Weston, S. C, who, 

 upon learning of my desire to obtain it for my collection kindly 

 used his influence in my behalf with the person who sent it to 

 him. Upon writing to Dr. Jonathan D wight, Jr., of New York 

 City, about the swan, he very generously purchased the speci- 

 men and presented it to me. 



Mr. Garick informs me that the bird was shot in a small pond 

 and seemed to be very tired, and that it was greatly emaciated 

 — in fact skin and bone — but despite its condition it measured (in 

 the flesh) fifty-two inches in length and eighty-four inches in 

 extent of wing. This swan, although a young male and apparent- 

 ly a bird of the year, has the legs and feet black as in the adult. 

 In the works of Audubon, Baird, Brewer and Ridgway, Coues, 

 Ridgway, and Chapman, the color of the feet of the young is 

 described as "yellowish flesh color," "grayish or whitish," 

 and by the last named author as "light." 



Although the Whistling Swan winters in great numbers on the 

 northern coast of North Carolina, there are few authentic re- 

 cords of the capture of these magnificent birds in this state. 



This species breeds on the Barren Grounds along the Arctic 

 coast. 



ORDER ODONTOGLOSS^: LAMELLIROSTRAL 

 GRALLATORES. 



FAMILY PHCENICOPTERIDiE: FLAMINGOES. 



61. Phoenicopterus ruber Linn. Flamingo. 



In his Birds of America, Audubon says: ^ 



A very few of these birds have been known to proceed eastward of the Floridas 

 beyond Charleston in South Carolina, and some iiave been procured there within 

 eight or ten years back. 



Since Audubon's work was published, another Flamingo has 

 been taken in this state, which I recorded in the Auk"^ as follows: 



Learning from my friend Dr. G. E. Manigault, that W. St. Julien Mazyck, Esq., 

 captured the bird, 1 wrote to him for a full account of its capture. Mr. Mazyck 



»VI, 170. 2 IV, 1887, 72. 



