IQO Loomis, Notes on Birds of Chester County, S. C. [April 



131. Ardea herodias. Great Blue Heron; 'Big Blue Crane.' — A 



constant resident, but most abundant through the summer. 



135. Porzana Carolina. Carolina Rail. ' Ortolan.' — Observed only 

 during the migration. Have found it quite common in swampy meadows. 

 Not easily flushed ; the mowers sometimes cut the grass over one before 

 it can be made to take wing. 



141. Turdus ustulatus aliciae. Gray-cheeked Thrush. — Transient 

 visitant. Apparently not common. 



142. Telmatodytes palustris. Long-billed Marsh Wren. — Chiefly 

 spring and autumn. Rather common. A denizen of the bottoms. 



143. Cistothorus stellaris. Short-billed Marsh Wren. — An indi- 

 vidual was shot, September 18, 1SS0, in a little depression along the side 

 of a railroad embankment. This spot, about half an acre, becomes boggy 

 during wet weather, and is grown over with marsh grass and scrubby 

 willows. 



144. Helminthophaga peregrina. Tennessee Warbler. — Only one 

 instance of its capture, September 25. 1879. 



145. Dendrceca palmarum hypochrysea. Yellow-bellied Red-poll 

 Warbler. — Both subspecies {palmarum ct hypochrysea*) are found through 

 the winter, but neither is very common. During the migration the species 

 is abundant — variety palmarum predominating. Inhabits cotton fields, 

 weedy lands, and old fence rows. 



146. Myiodioctes mitratus. Hooded Flycatching Warbler. — A 

 single specimen taken September 25, 1879. 



147. Passer domesticus. The Sparrow; Philip Sparrow; .'Eng- 

 lish Sparrow.'— This aggressive little foreigner has become firmly 

 established in the town of Chester, especially in the business portions. 

 The colony doubtless descended from the half dozen brought here from 

 New York, during the summer of 1873, by the late Dr. A. P. Wylie, and 

 set at liberty in his grounds. 



14S. Centrophanes lapponicus. Lapland Longspur. — A single strag- 

 gler, Jan. 1, 1SS1, evidently driven southward by the unusual severity of 

 the season. (Previously recorded in Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, Vol. 

 VII, p. 54.) 



149. Centrophanes pictus. Painted Longspur. — One example, 

 December 1, 1S80. (For further record, see Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, 

 Vol. VI, pp. 115, 116.) 



150. Coturniculus henslowi. Henslow's Grasshopper Sparrow. — 

 A tolerably common migrant, appearing early in spring and lingering late 

 in autumn. In localities where I find passer inus in summer and lecontii 

 in winter, I look confidently for henslowi during the migration. It is by 

 far the least distrustful of any of the birds of my acquaintance. If by 

 chance it happens to be in an open space where the grass affords no con- 

 cealment, it will permit the intruder to advance within a very few feet 

 before running away — only taking flight when forced to do so. 



151. Coturniculus lecontii. LeConte's Grasshopper Sparrow; Le 

 Conte's Bunting. — A common winter inhabitant, in certain localities, of 



