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The specimen was not crippled, being very fat and very wild, and is in 

 fine, unworn plumage. Although Audubon 1 says that " I once saw a large 

 flock of them near Charleston, in the month of December," he must have 

 confused this species with the Long-billed Curlew (Numenius americanus) 

 which latter bird wintered along the South Carolina coast in vast numbers 

 up to 1885 or a few years later. 



Arenaria interpres interpres. Turnstone. — On May 30, 1918, I 

 shot on Dewees Island five birds at one shot and from the same flock, all 

 of which are in perfect nuptial plumage. One specimen — an adult male — 

 having more black in the upper parts than any individual I had previously 

 taken led me to compare it with an European specimen, Mr. J. H. Riley 

 having sent me an adult male from the U. S. National Museum collection 

 taken at Havre, France, on May 15, 1875. This French bird has the wing 

 5£ inches, and the wing of the South Carolina specimen is of the same 

 length. According to ' The Water Fowl Family ' Dr. Bishop gives the wing 

 measurement for A. interpres as more than 6 inches, and for A. interpres 

 morinella as under 6 inches. The South Carolina bird is identical in 

 coloration with the European except that it has more reddish in the 

 wing-coverts; and if interpres is really distinct from morinella (which is 

 doubtful, as a typical morinella in coloration has the wing more than 6 

 inches) an European bird has been added to the fauna of South Carolina. 

 Ruddy Turnstone's, i. e. males in perfect nuptial plumage, vary endlessly 

 in the amount of black in the upper parts. A lovely male taken by me on 

 May 26, 1910, has very little black on the upper parts, the reddish color 

 everywhere prevailing. The specimen taken May 30, 1918, that is referable 

 to A. i. interpres, has two coal black feathers among the white feathers 

 of the abdominal regions. 



Falco columbarius columbarius. Pigeon Hawk. — While watching 

 a pair of Rough-winged Swallows (Stelgidopteryx serripennis) building a 

 nest in an ancient limekiln from which a round limb had rotted leaving a 

 long, round symmetrical hole, in which the Swallows were depositing 

 pieces of sedge on May 15, 1918, a Pigeon Hawk attacked and caught a 

 Barn Swallow ( Hirundo erythrogastra) with superlative ease and flew with 

 it first to the beach then to a high, dead pine about 400 yards away. I 

 hastened to the tree hoping to secure it; but as I was almost in proper 

 range the hawk which had already devoured the swallow flew to such a 

 distance that I could no longer follow it with my eyes. 



The Pigeon Hawk is now a very rare bird on the coast of South Carolina 

 and has always been very rare in the spring, the last time I observed one 

 was on April 13, 1900, an adult male in beautiful plumage, that I shot, and 

 which is now in my collection. 



Myiarchus crinitus. Crested Flycatcher. — On December 11, 

 1914, I heard the note of a Crested Flycatcher and upon following the 



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