xiv Contributions from the Charleston Museum. 



knowledge, except some Water Fowl, and some of those which 

 frequent the Sea. ' ' 



With regard to the names of the birds, he says: 



"Very few of the Birds having names assigned to them in the 

 country, except some which had Indian names; I have called them 

 after European Birds of the same Genus, with an additional 

 Epithet to distinguish them." 



He discusses the possible introduction of birds into America 

 from Europe, and the problem of migration. In this connection 

 he gives a list of twelve species of land birds which breed in Car- 

 olina but winter elsewhere ; six land winter visitants ; six European 

 land birds found in America; twenty European land birds found 

 as winter visitants in America; and five American species of land 

 birds which are winter visitants in Carolina, The main body of 

 the work is devoted to plates and text descriptions of one hundred 

 and four species of birds, each represented in a full-page color 

 plate with the species of plants which it frequents. Catesby 

 apologizes for faults of perspective, etc., due to lack of training 

 in painting. 



Upon his return to England, being discouraged by the cost of 

 engraving, he undertook to etch his own plates, after receiving 

 some instruction from an artist friend. He notes especially that 

 he gives the actual texture of the feathers in place of using the 

 cross-hatching of the engravers, beheving that the results are 

 better. 



HEWAT, DRAYTON, BARTRAM, ETC. 



In the Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Col- 

 onies of South Carolina and Georgia (1779), attributed to Dr. 

 Alexander Hewat, the birds are given cursory mention.* 



Drayton's View of South CaroHna (1802) contains a nominal 

 list of eighty-one species of birds, which reappears, with some ad- 

 ditions, in Ramsay's History of South Carolina (1809), and again 

 in Mill's Statistics of South Carolina (1826). Drayton records 

 the breeding of the Raven at Table Rock, Pendleton district 

 (now Pickens county), and refers to the abundance of Wild Pig- 

 eons. 



In 1791 Wilham Bartram published an account of his botani- 

 cal travels from 1773 to 1778 through the Carolinas, Georgia, etc. 

 in which is included a list of two hundred and fifteen species of 



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