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Dr. Manigault was not in the habit of affixing locaUties to specimens 

 (despite my protestations) taken in South CaroUna, for he regarded the 

 Charleston Museum as not a museum of science, but one to attract the 

 public generally. 



Although the specimen is labeled " o " there can be little doubt that it 

 is a young c? ,. for the speculmn is rich, uniform green. — Arthur T. Wayne, 

 Honorary Curator Div. Birds, Charleston Museum. 



Barrow's Golden-eye {Clangula islandica) in Massachusetts. — As this 

 bird seems to be of rare occurrence in Massachusetts I would like to call 

 attention to its having been taken at Nantucket on December 17, 1906. 

 It was a male specimen in the adult plumage and was shot by Charles C. 

 Chadwick, a native of the island, and whom I have had occasion to go 

 shooting with several times. The bird was shot at the eastern end of the 

 harbor where there is an opening into the ocean known as Haulover Break. 

 At daylight and until sunrise a large flight of sea fowl streams through 

 here on their way to the feeding grounds in the harbor. They consist 

 mostly of White-winged Scoters (Oidemia deglandi), American Golden- 

 eyes (Clangula clangula americana), Old-squaws (Harelda hyemalis), and a 

 few Red-breasted Mergansers (Merganser serrator); this latter bird being 

 very common later on in the spring. The bird in question was shot at this 

 time during the flight, and was flying singly. Chadwick was unable to 

 identify the specimen but supposed it to be a freak Clangula clangula ameri- 

 cana. He showed it to several of the oldest gunners on the island but 

 none had ever seen one like it before. Unfortunately the bird was destroyed 

 in ignorance. I have been unat)le to find any recent records of the capture 

 of this bird in Massachusetts and I believe it is considered a rare bird here, 

 though a few are occasionally taken in Maine. — S. Prescott Fay, Boston, 

 Mass. 



The Whistling Swan (Olor columhianus') in South Carolina. — I am in- 

 debted to Dr. Jonathan Dwight, Jr., for the gift of a bird of this species 

 taken at Ridge Springs, Edgefield County, on November 26, 1907. The 

 specimen was shot in a small pond and seemed to be very tired. It was 

 sent by Dr. I^. J. Smith to Mr. James P. Garick, Jr., of Weston, S. C, to 

 be mounted, who (the latter) upon learning of my desire to obtain it for 

 my collection kindly used his influence in my behalf. Mr. Garick informs 

 me that the bird was greatly emaciated, in fact 'skin and bone,' but despite 

 its condition it measured (in flesh) 52 inches in length and 84 inches in 

 extent. 



This Swan, although a young male and doubtless a bird-of-the-year, 

 has the legs and feet deep hlack as in the adult. 



In Audubon's 'Birds of America,' Vol. VI, p. 232; Baird, Brewer and 

 Ridgway, 'Water Birds,' Vol. I, p. 425; Coues's 'Key to N. A. Birds,' 

 p. 683; Ridgway's 'Manual of N. A. Birds,' p. 120, and Chapman's 'Birds 



