^°*'l9io'^^^] General Notes. 455 



possession of Mr. R. Henry Phillips, game warden of Fairfield County, 

 who skinned the bird, and from whom I received it in exchange. Mr. 

 Phillips says it was taken after a storm of wind and sleet, and is a female. 



The first specific record for the State was mentioned by Bartram in 

 his 'Travels' (second edition, 1794, 285). Audubon ^ says: "Several 

 individuals have been procured in South Carolina, one on James Island 

 [near Charleston], another, now in the Charleston Museum, on Clarkson's 

 plantation [near Columbia], and a fine one was shot at Columbia, the seat 

 of government, from the chimney of one of the largest houses in that town, 

 and was beautifully preserved by Professor [Lewis R.] Gibbes of the 

 Columbia College." 



Mr. Leverett M. Loomis,^ in reference to a specimen seen by him at 

 Chester, says: "During the early part of December, 1886, I saw an in- 

 dividual several times under circumstances that dispelled all doubt from 

 my mind as to its identity." 



About the middle of February, 1899, I picked up a feather in a primeval 

 forest near my house which must have belonged to a Snowy Owl, as the 

 color, texture, size, elasticity, etc., plainly showed that it was an owl's 

 feather. It was marked like some feathers of the White Gyrfalcon {Falco 

 islandus), but did not possess the rigidity of that bird's feathers. 



As far as my information extends this makes the fourth specimen of the 

 Snowy Owl taken in South Carohna since Audubon wrote. — Arthur T, 

 Wayne, Mount Pleasant, S. C. 



Nesting Colonies of the Green-crested Flycatcher and Parula 

 Warbler, Past and Present. — On May 31, 1893, during a visit to my 

 brother while at School at Suffolk, Va., we managed to break away from 

 commencement exercises long enough to pay a visit to Lake Kilby, situated 

 about a mile from the center of town. Then, as now, the lake furnished 

 the water supply for the cities of Suffolk and Portsmouth, but at that time 

 a large number of pleasure boats were kept on it, and no permit was neces- 

 sary to fish or enjoy an outing on its placid but juniper stained waters. My 

 brother had visited the lake a few days previous to my arrival and found 

 that both the Parula Warbler {Compsothlypis americana) and the Green- 

 crested Flycatcher {Empidonax virescens) had established themselves 

 in large colonies on the lake, with nests completed. We arrived at the 

 pump house about 8 a. m. and after securing a small double-ended bateau 

 with paddles, pushed off. The lake, which is quite deep, is surrounded 

 by high ground, while along the edges and growing in the water near the 

 shore are juniper trees, which at that time were festooned with the beauti- 

 ful long hanging Spanish moss. A few trees, mostly with dead tops, and 

 stumps, were scattered here and there over the surface, the latter well 

 filled with nests of the House Wren, Bluebird, Yellow-shafted Flicker, 

 Great-crested Flycatcher, Tufted Titmouse, and Prothonotary Warbler. 



» Birds of America, I, 1840, 115. 

 2 Auk, VIII, 1891, 55, 56. 



