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strongly with canary yellow. It was also undergoing a moult embracing 

 the head, jugulum and upper breast feathers. 



Passerherbulus lecontei. Leconte'.s Sparrow. — In ' Birds of 

 South Carolina,' 1910, page 120, I expressed my belief that many of these 

 birds remain until April. During the past winter of 1917-1918 Leconte's 

 Sparrows were present in considerable numbers. As usual fires were of a 

 daily occurrence on account chiefly of a long protracted drought so that 

 fields of broom grass, as well as dense forests, were completely burned over. 

 I, however, succeeded in saving a field of broom grass near my home, which 

 embraced about ten acres, from the flames. In this field I procured speci- 

 mens in March and April as follows: March 22, one; April 4, one; April 

 17, one undergoing a spring moult was taken; April 27, one in very worn 

 plumage was secured. Of the series of thirty-one birds taken only five 

 were males, which was the case in the winter of 1893-94, when the birds 

 were here in great numbers, showing that the males remain farther north. 



Lanivireo solitarius alticola. Mountain Solitary Vireo. — On 

 January 11, 1912, I secured a perfectly typical example of this large race 

 near Mount Pleasant. The specimen is an adult male and the taking of 

 it in January shows that a few sporadic individuals must winter regularly 

 here. 



Vermivora bachmani. Bachman's Warbler. — I found on March 

 28, 1918, on the extreme northeastern edge of FOn Swamp, near Wither- 

 wood plantation, a nest containing five eggs of the rare Bachman's Warbler. 

 These eggs were incubated for at least five or even seven days and show 

 that, although this bird does not winter, it arrives very early in the spring 

 and breeds even much earlier than the resident Pine Warbler ( Dendroica 

 vigorsii) and Yellow-throated Warbler {Dendroica dominica). 



Dendroica magnolia. Magnolia Warbler. — On October 10, 1915, 

 I shot a young male of this species about 300 yards of the spot where the 

 first one for the coast region was taken on September 29, 1912, and re- 

 corded by me in 'The Auk,' XXX, 1913, 277. It is evident that the 

 Magnolia Warbler migrates in small numbers along the coast of South 

 Carolina, in the autumn. 



Dendroica virens. Black-throated Green Warbler. — The brief 

 account of this bird written in ' Birds of South Carolina ' is, in the main, 

 correct. Although I had never found it breeding when the book went 

 to the press I was absolutely certain that it really bred on the coast in 

 widely separated places due to the presence of original heavily timbered 

 forests, which is requisite for the birds in the breeding season. And the 

 reason for not stating that the birds breed here was that I respected the 

 opinion of other persons whose views did not coincide with mine. On 

 April 11, 1917, however, I found a female building a nest in a tall pine tree 

 in I'On Swamp, and on April 25, 1918, I saw another female carrying 

 nesting materials, but could not locate the place by following her, as the 

 swamp was too dense. According to Mr. Loomis the birds breed in the 

 mountains of Pickens County and also at Caesar's Head, Greenville County 



