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Wayne, South Carolina Bird Notes. 437 



birds, due to the essential difference of sex and any variations in 

 voice which might arise would be preserved in the male germ which 

 assures the variation in the species while the germ of the female 

 guarantees the constancy of the species. 



SOME ADDITIONS AND OTHER RECORDS NEW TO THE 

 ORNITHOLOGY OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 



BY ARTHUR T. WAYNE. 



Since 'My Birds of South Carolina' was published in 1910, I 

 wish to announce the addition of four species new to the fauna as 

 well as the noteworthy capture of many birds, and the early breed- 

 ing of Bachman's Warbler. Information of this kind is gained 

 slowly, and requires constant, if not daily, exploration of fields, 

 forests, and water areas. 



Puffinus griseus. Sooty Shearwater. — A specimen of this species 

 was picked up dead on the beach of Bull's Island on, or about, the last of 

 May, 1916, by Mr. Clarence Magwood. I examined the bird about a 

 week after it was found. This date probably represents the time when 

 the birds make their appearance in the spring on the South Carolina coast. 



Histrionicus histrionicus. Harlequin Duck. — During the in- 

 tensely cold weather which began on December 30, 1917, and continued 

 through the third week of January, 1918, I was constantly on the lookout 

 for far northern birds. On January 14, I saw four of these ducks, and on 

 the 16th, I saw two more near the place where the first were seen on 

 January 14. These ducks were probably not more than 75 or 80 yards 

 from me and the identification was established without a doubt despite 

 the fact that I was unable to shoot one. All the examples were in the 

 plumage of the female and must have been that sex or else young males of 

 the first winter plumage. Near at hand were small flocks of Buffle-head 

 (Charitonetta albeola), Old-squaw (Harelda hyemalis), and Ruddy Ducks 

 (Erismatura jamaicensis) , and the Harlequin's were easily identified. This 

 is an addition to the avifauna of South Carolina. 



Chen hyperboreus hyperboreus. Snow Goose. — On October 16, 

 1916, Mr. Lucian L. Porcher shot on Porcher's plantation, Christ Church 



