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very kindly wrote me, under date of November 22, (1886), as follows: — "The fall 

 of the year 1876 was stormy, with much rain. Somewhere between the 10th and 

 16th of September there was a gale of wind. A day or so after the gale, Mr. B. H. 

 Ward observed a large, strange bird on De Bardien Island, which he determined 

 to watch and make an effort to capture. Inadvertently mentioning what he had 

 seen, one of his neighbors the next day killed the bird, and brought it to Pawley 

 Island, when I identified it as the Flamingo. 



"That night, several hours after it was killed, I skinned such parts as I judged 

 would be acceptable to Dr. Manigault. The legs and other long bones were badly 

 shattered by the turkey shot, and with no experience I made a poor job of the bird. 

 The heat and moisture of the weather softened it so much. Dr. Manigault wrote, 

 that he could do nothing with it. He, however, identified it as a young male. 

 The bird was evidently lost in the storm and driven to this shore, where he re- 

 mained four or five days before being killed. ' ' 



The Flamingo is a tropical and subtropical species, and its 

 presence on this coast is purely accidental. 



ORDER HERODIONES: SPOONBILLS, IBISES. 

 HERONS, ETC. 



FAMILY PLATALEIDiE: SPOONBILLS. 



62. Ajaia ajaja (Linn.). Roseate Spoonbill. 



I have never seen this beautiful species alive in South Carolina, 

 but Dr. Bachman has observed it, and I quote from Audubon's 

 Birds of America: '■ 



My friend John Bachman informs me that he has observed only three in- 

 dividuals in the course of twenty years. He once obtained a specimen in full plum- 

 age about ten miles north of Charleston. 



Since Dr. Bachman wrote, two other specimens of this beauti- 

 ful bird have been taken in this state; one in June, 1879, by Dr. 

 T. Grange Simons, at Lucas' Mill Pond, in the western part of the 

 city of Charleston. This w^as beautifully prepared as an osteo- 

 logical specimen by my friend Dr. Gabriel E. Manigault, and is 

 now in the Charleston Museum.- The second specimen was shot 

 by my late friend, Mr. Eugene Gregorie, in the autumn of 1885, 

 on his rice plantation "Retreat," near Yemassee. 



FAMILY IBIDID^: IBISES. 



63. Quara alba (Linn.). White Ibis. 



The White Ibis is exceedingly abundant on the rice plantations 

 during the spring and summer, generally arriving during the 

 second week in April. It must breed in immense numbers, but 



1 VL 72. 2 Spec. No. 318. 



