Vo1 ' 1920 XV11 ] Wayne, Birds Taken near Charleston, S. C. 93 



Dendroica caerulescens caerulescens. Black-throated Blue 



Warbler. — On August 30, 1918, I saw a bird of this species and, as it 

 was the earliest date on which I had ever seen one in the autumnal migra- 

 tion, determined to obtain it, as the earliest previous records were Septem- 

 ber 15, 1884, September 13, 1888, and September 13, 1912. Upon securing 

 the specimen, which is a young male, I was surprised to find upon examina- 

 tion a post ocular streak of pure white on each side of head as well as the 

 same color in the loral regions. This discovery led me to procure a few 

 more with the hope of finding others marked in a like manner. On Septem- 

 ber 21, I shot two young males and on October 7, I again shot another 

 young male. These two birds are similarly marked as in the August 30 

 specimen although not as pronounced. 



The specimen taken October 7, has the white markings confined to the 

 loral and post ocular areas, but there is a white patch on the lower eyelids, 

 which is absent in the other specimens. Upon examining my series of 

 these birds, many of which were taken before 1889, I could find no trace of 

 the peculiarities mentioned above in either adult or young males. 



Dendroica caerulescens cairnsi. Cairns's Warbler. — I shot on 

 October 2, 1918, a specimen of this race which has fourteen tail feathers. 

 I have been counting the rectrices of passerine birds ever since 1887 and 

 the number of tail feathers in the Warblers invariably numbered twelve, 

 therefore this bird is a novelty. 



Seiurus noveboracensis notabilis. Grinnell's Water-Thrush. — 

 On July 29, 1912, I shot an adult male of this form which has the three 

 outer rectrices on each side narrowly margined terminally on the inner 

 webs with white; I also have a male taken on May 6, 1915, marked in a 

 similar manner, and on August 16, 1918, I took an adult male with two 

 outer tail feathers on each side widely margined terminally, and on the 

 inner webs, with white. Occasional specimens of the Louisiana Water- 

 Thrush (Seiurus motacilla) possess this peculiarity as I have already pointed 

 out (Auk, XXVIII, 1911, 488). I have two specimens marked as above. 



Grinnell's Water-Thrush is the prevailing form found here, typical 

 noveboracensis being a rara avis during both migrations. On one occasion 

 during a heavy rain storm one night in September — I think on September 

 12, 1912 — I saw vast hosts of Water-Thrushes in a swamp "near my house 

 on the morning of that day, there being in sight hundreds in the area of a 

 hundred square feet, and I estimated that there must have been certainly 

 twenty-five thousand or even more birds in the portion of the swamp I 

 explored that day, being in water most of the time up to my waist. 



Oporornis formosus. Kentucky Warbler. — I shot on August 14, 

 1918, a young male of this lovely bird which has thirteen rectrices. The 

 day on which this bird was taken the thermometer registered in the shade 

 101° which shows, as I pointed out in ' Birds of South Carolina,' that it 

 migrates during the hottest portion of the summer. 



Mimus polyglottos polyglottos. Mockingbird.— Towards sunset 



